Datalight has upgraded its FlashFX Pro software used on the world’s most popular embedded devices.
Datalight has upgraded its FlashFX Pro software used on the world’s most popular embedded devices. FlashFX Pro version 3.0 - a Flash manager and Flash driver - ensures the integrity of data stored on resident Flash, both NAND and NOR, and makes it simple for software applications to access the Flash chip just as they would a hard disk drive. The product will be available at the end of this month from Logic Technology.

NAND controllers are a technology advance that is being used more extensively in devices to improve overall performance.

Most currently available Flash drivers and managers lack the software architecture to support these hardware innovations.

By adding support for common NAND controllers, FlashFX Pro 3.0 allows device manufacturers to take advantage of advanced performance capabilities, such as hardware error correction, data caching, and power management available through NAND controller hardware.

FlashFX Pro offers unparalleled design flexibility with prewritten drivers for over 100 state-of-the-art Flash parts.

Engineers can efficiently use both NAND and NOR in the same device; changing the Flash memory at any stage in the device design process - even during production - is as easy as swapping out the chip and identifying the new part number in the software.

Different data types have different handling needs.

Secure system data (such as a proprietary operating system) in a device should never be tampered with by the user.

And encrypted user data (such as ringtones or paid music) must be separated from active user data (like a contact list).

Support for multiple partitions makes it simple to satisfy these varying data needs.

‘FlashFX Pro is the Flash memory management software of choice used by many of the best-known OEMs’, stated Kerri McConnell, Director of Marketing for Datalight.

‘With version 3.0 we’ve listened to our customers’ needs and responded with features that give their devices better performance, greater reliability, and simplify the process of getting those devices to market quickly’.