Embedded Flash drive boots OMAP-based systems
Categories: Microcontrollers and DSPs, MicroprocessorsThe mDOC H-series embedded Flash drive is now being offered as a NAND Flash-based storage and boot solution for portable terminals based on the OMAP5912 processor.
The mDOC H-series embedded Flash drive (EFD) is now being offered as a NAND Flash-based storage and boot solution for portable terminals based on the OMAP5912 processor from Texas Instruments (TI). M-Systems’ mDOC H-series EFD provides device designers with an easy-to-integrate storage and boot solution using the latest high-density NAND Flash media, including cost-effective multi-level cell (MLC) NAND. Providing high reliability and multimedia performance levels delivered through M-Systems’ Flash management technologies, such as the patented TrueFFS Flash file system, mDOC H-series is well suited to meet the growing demand for high density smart storage in portable terminals and other OMAP5912-based applications.
OMAP5912 is a highly integrated hardware and software platform, designed to meet the application processing needs of next-generation embedded devices.
The OMAP platform enables device designers to quickly bring to market devices featuring rich user interfaces, high processing performance, and long battery life through the maximum flexibility of a fully integrated mixed processor solution.
The dual-core architecture provides benefits of both DSP and reduced instruction set computer (RISC) technologies, incorporating a TMS320C55x DSP core and a high-performance ARM926EJ-S ARM core.
‘M-Systems’ mDOC H-series, with its standardised NOR-like interface, allows all of our customers to reap the rewards of cost-effective NAND Flash without traditional design and integration tradeoffs’, said Huy Pham, OMAP Marketing Manager, TI.
‘Embedded applications can efficiently tap into the latest raw NAND material with the mDOC H-series’ standard EFD interface without risking their increasingly demanding project schedules’.
‘It will help our customers focus their efforts on making superior products, faster’.
‘We are proud of our continuing collaboration with TI and are pleased to once again see the M-DOC EFD selected as the boot and high-density storage solution of choice for OMAP-based designs’, said Noam Kedem, Vice President of Marketing for M-Systems.
‘Much like the OMAP5912’s architecture, our DiskOnChip architecture offers designers ease of integration and cost savings, thanks to the marriage of raw SLC or MLC NAND material and our Flash management technologies’.
‘mDOC H-series is embedded Flash storage made smarter’.