Greenliant Shipping Industrial Grade SATA NANDrive Embedded SSDs

Greenliant Systems Ltd. has started mass production of its industrial grade SATA interface NANDrive SSDs.

Operating at temperatures between -40 and +85 degrees Celsius, I-grade SATA NANDrive devices keep customer data safe while withstanding extreme environments.

The industrial grade SATA NANDrive is available in 2 GByte, 4 GByte and 8 GByte, with higher capacities planned.

These products combine Greenliant’s internally developed NAND controller with SLC NAND flash die for an integrated SSD in a multi-chip package. For applications requiring the endurance and speed of solid state storage in small form factors, SATA NANDrive is one of the smallest SSDs at 14mm x 24mm x 1.95mm. Offered in a 145 ball grid array (BGA), 1mm ball pitch package for firm mounting to a system motherboard, NANDrive is resistant to shock and vibration.

"The SATA NANDrive GLS85LS product family is backward compatible with the same pin-out across all capacities and temperature ranges – commercial and industrial – giving customers added flexibility when using solid state storage in their designs," said Nobu Higuchi, VP of application engineering and product marketing, Greenliant Systems. "Because NANDrive protects against frequent NAND flash changes, it is an ideal SSD for embedded applications that need long-term support, such as industrial single-board computers, robotics, automation and control, military and automotive."

Greenliant was demonstrating NANDrive in at Embedded World 2012, Nuremberg, Germany, February 28 – March 1.

The addition of I-grade SATA NANDrive devices builds on the Greenliant’s C-grade SATA and I-grade/C-grade PATA products, expanding its portfolio of NANDrive embedded SSDs.

Security
The advanced security features of SATA NANDrive include a device ID, password protection and four independent zones that the user can set to different protection levels. In addition, it allows the user to select specific areas of the SSD to ‘instant’ erase sensitive content, instead of having to erase the entire drive.

Data Integrity Protection
SATA NANDrive’s system-level firmware solution addresses NAND data retention issues, as well as preserves data integrity during power interrupts, reducing the risk of data loss.

Wear Leveling
NAND management technology is based on static and dynamic wear-leveling algorithms that maximize the NANDrive lifespan allowing system engineers to address applications with long lifetime requirements such as industrial, medical, military, enterprise networking and automotive products.

Availability
Industrial grade 2 GByte, 4 GByte and 8 GByte SATA NANDrive devices are available. Order GLS85LS products through a Greenliant authorized distributor and sales representative. Customers can also request NANDrive product samples and evaluation boards online.

About NANDrive Products
NANDrive manages all NAND flash complexities and allows embedded system designers to integrate mass data storage solutions into their designs without having to make any firmware changes. Because it complies with ATA interface protocols supported by standard embedded operating systems, designers no longer face host software revalidation cycles. NANDrive solves the compatibility and obsolescence issues of pairing a NAND controller with new NAND flash devices. As an integrated multi-chip package solution, it eliminates the need for qualification cycles when there is a change of NAND flash technology; customers need only qualify the NANDrive as a mass storage subsystem.

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