Evatronix Partnering With HCC Embedded

Headquartered in Poland, Evatronix SA, provider of NAND flash and AMS IP solutions, together with HCC Embedded, in deployment of platform software, announced availability of its fail-safe Flash Translation Layer, SafeFTL, optimized for the Evatronix NAND Flash controller IP.

The goal is to merge the security provided by the fail-safe FTL from HCC with the high-performance NAND Flash controller IP from Evatronix. The result is a fast, secure solution ready for implementation in all NAND Flash-based SoCs.

"Close cooperation between HCC Embedded and Evatronix resulted in a solution of performance and reliability that could not have been achieved otherwise," said Arkadiusz Buchalik, Memory Controllers product line manager at Evatronix. "Embedded application designers will now have at their disposal a solution that they will be able to tailor to their most specific needs, from both hardware and software sides."

The Evatronix NAND Flash Controller IP is a configurable memory controllers supporting memory devices from Micron, Toshiba and Samsung. The controller features numerous performance enhancements, like ECC, hardware support for Bad Block Management, a scatter-gather DMA, Super Sequence and Command queue. For integration into the customer’s SoC, the controller supports AMBA AXI/AHB, PLB and Avalon system buses.

HCC’s Fast Flash Translation Layer provides a performance solution that allows developers to interface to any flash-based media. SafeFTL presents a logical, sector interface to an application, such as a file system, and manages the underlying complexity in an efficient manner. When used in a correctly designed system the integrity of the file system and it’s data are guaranteed.

David Brook, director of marketing for HCC Embedded said: "Embedded applications are used in many commercially or mission critical situations and it is paramount that developers of hardware and software cooperate to ensure developers have access to robust solutions."