Kontron chipDISK

Introduction

The chipDISK is a fully IDE-compatible flash disk and was designed to replace the customary harddisk. The chipDISK is based upon FLASH-TECHNOLOGY and is absolutely insensitive to tremors, vibrations, impacts, fluctuations in temperature and magnetic fields. The chipDISK is therefore best suited for employment in mobile pieces of equipment and systems which need to withstand severe influences. The minimal mechanical measurement allow its employment in very compact pieces of equipment. The power consumption of the chipDISK is only a fraction of that needed by a "normal" hard disk which therefore considerably lengthens its amount of potential operation time.

A hard disk controller is integrated in the chipDISK which insures the complete compatibility with a "normal" harddisk on one hand, and which conducts the organization of the flash-components on the other. Potential defects in the flash-cells are hereby automatically recognized dealt with accordingly. Data protection is therefore considerably heightened. A special writing procedure working in connection with the cache memory considerably increases the slow writing speed that the flash-components are known to have. The chipDISK is designed to be directly plugged (without a cable) onto a 2 mm pin rail with the pin cover of a 2.5" IDE-hard disk. The chipDISK-IDE can be directly employed on the PC/104-component groups MOPS and other 2.5" IDE interfaces.

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Adapter

As the chipDISK mates directly with the host CPU card, it is not possible to connect another IDE device to the same connector. As most embedded boards have only a primary IDE channel, this can sometimes be a problem. This is where the chipDISK-ADA-1 comes in handy. This will allow usage of an additional IDE device such as a harddisk or CD-ROM etc at the same time.