ATP A600Si/A600Sc SSDs Feature MCU Design for Enhanced Power Management and Power Loss Protection Capabilities

ATP Electronics, Inc. unveils its next-gen A600Si and A600Sc SATA SSDs featuring a new design of the power loss protection (PLP) array, which utilizes a power management IC (PMIC) and firmware-programmable MCU (microcontroller unit).

Integrated into its PLP technology, the company’s PowerProtector 4, this MCU design allows the PLP array to perform in various temperatures, power glitches and charge states.

“Superior power loss protection is essential in any embedded/industrial application. But not all PLPs are equal,” said Marco Mezger, VP, global marketing, ATP. “By implementing this type of MCU design, we are able to showcase our engineering expertise and nearly 30-year experience in the design and manufacture of storage devices for wide temperature environments, particularly for compact form factors in embedded/industrial applications. We continue to blaze the trail, as we were also the first to design and release smaller form factor SSDs such as eUSB and M.2 2242 with an onboard PLP array.“

ATP SATA SSDs with PowerProtector 4 MCU-based design have following advantages:

• Enhanced device protection

  • • Suppression of power-up inrush current according to customer request

    • Input over-voltage protection to prevent damage to the SSD circuitry

• Better data integrity

  • • Input power noise de-glitch to prevent incorrect cache flushing caused by false triggers such as noisy or unstable host input voltage.

    • Under-charge/over-charge protection for hold-up power capacitors

• Fast power on/off control cuts the time required from power-off to re-power on the SSD

• Precise control of reset signal gen and power up/down sequences prevents potential issues in the power up/down of the SSD

• Industrial operating temperature support ensures reliable operation in extreme environments from -40°C to 85°C. As components perform and react differently in severely cold or hot scenarios, ATP PowerProtector 4 ensures reliable PLP capacitance in all states of cold start, hot temperature workload, and cross temperature.

• RAID support ensures redundancy and fault tolerance to prevent data loss in the event of a drive failure

• End-to-end data protection prevents unauthorized access to data while it is being transferred from one storage device to another.

• Customization options. The MCU-based design allows PLP capabilities to be tailor-fitted according to unique customer requirements, application-specific needs, or use cases.

The next-gen ATP SATA SSDs with the MCU-based design include mSATA, 2.5″ SSDs and M.2 2242/2280 modules.

Available with I-Temp (A600Si) and C-Temp (A600Sc) support, the SSDs come in the following capacities – M.2 2280: 120 to 960GB; M.2 2242 and mSATA: 120 to 480GB; 2.5″: 120GB to 1.92TB