Swissbit C-500, C-56 and C-50 Industrial CompactFlash Cards

Since the development of the first Swissbit AG‘s CompactFlash cards back in 2001, an independent manufacturer of memory and storage solutions in Europe, has continuously launched product – extensions as part of its long-term support strategy.

The company is currently promoting the C-500, C-56 and C-50 models – its latest CompactFlash product ranges that introduce flash memory technology into the old data media format. Even though PATA was replaced by faster interfaces a long time ago in the computer market, there is still a high demand for CompactFlash cards for systems that remain in use for decades and are still supplied as new in their original versions. These are mainly employed in automation, train controls as well as network and communication systems.

This family of industrial CompactFlash cards comprises the C-500 range with SLC NAND, the C-56 range with everbit pSLC technology and the cost-effective C-50 with durabit MLC memory. All three company’s ranges offer a latest generation high-performance controller and firmware that is optimized for industrial and netcom applications. The reliable products comply with the advanced industrial temperature class -40 to 85 °C.

Designed for durability
These CompactFlash cards with capacities between 512MB and 128GB are based on NAND technology, which guarantees their availability for the remaining product lifetime of the systems. The cards are CFA-6.1 compatible and support UDMA6 and PIO6 modes. A feature is the page-organized firmware that, compared to previous similar products, increases the write data rate for small data packets by factor 50 to 70 and the permitted write data volume to twice or three times the volume of previous solutions.

All three variants come with a data maintenance mode that regularly checks the data stability, even for memory areas that are rarely written to, and if necessary, re-writes them to ensure long-term data retention.

C-5x products are manufactured at the firm’s plant in Berlin, Germany, with final testing performed on every single card.

Samples of both C-500 and C-56 are available and C-50 will follow shortly by the end of the year.