F3 Series Flash Memory Controllers

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F3 Series Flash Memory Controllers Features:

Patented wear levelling together with ECC ensuring highest reliability and endurance
Optimized 32-bit RISC core, instruction set and firmware for flash handling
Dual channel Direct Flash Access unit (DFA) including sector buffers for interleaved operations
Most power efficient design together with additional power saving features
Smart and custom features possible by simple firmware upgrades
ASSP with no need for external voltage regulator, detector or diodes, only few capacitors or resistors need to be added to bill of materials
Turnkey solution including firmware, manufacturing kit, test and development hardware, and reference schematics for a CF card or 2.5” solid state disk, and testmetrix log files

Targeted Applications
High reliability & industrial CompactFlash™ Cards (CFC)
Solid State Disks (SSD)
IDE Disk-on-Modules (DoM)
Embedded Flash
Multi-Chip-Modules (MCM)
Multi-Chip-Package (MCP)
PCMCIA or ATA PC cards
Disk-on-Board

Compliance & Performance
Compliant to CompactFlash™ 3.0 and compatible with 4.1 specifications
Fast ATA supporting PIO mode 6, MDMA mode 4, UDMA mode 4 in True-IDE mode
PCMCIA specification version 2.1
Configurable as removable, hot swappable, and fixed drive
Sustained read up to 45 MB/s
Sustained write up to 30 MB/s with interleaving
Random read up to 35 MB/s
Random write up to 6 MB/s
Custom optimizations for specified file sizes possible
Data transfer rate to flash memories: up to 80 MB/s
Host data transfer rate in PIO mode 6 or MDMA mode 4 up to 25 MB/s
Host data transfer rate in UDMA mode 4 up to 66 MB/s

Controller & CPU
High performance 32-bit Hyperstone RISC microprocessor
10-70 MHz clock frequency using adjustable internal oscillator
16 KB internal Boot ROM
20 KB internal SRAM
Card operation current 75 mA max.
Automatic power-down during wait periods, power saving incl. auto wake-up and sleep mode with Icc < 200 µA
Supply voltage 5.0V ± 10 % or 3.3V ± 10%
On-chip voltage regulator for 3.3V flash power supply
On-chip voltage regulator for 2.5V core power supply
Internal voltage detector

Flash Memory Interface & Handling
Dual channel direct flash memory access (DFA)
Supporting all control signals for NAND type flash memory connection
Supporting direct connection of up to 16 flash memory chips enables (CE) - 8 per channel
Flash memory power down logic and flash memory write protect control
Error Correcting Code (ECC) capable of correcting 4 symbols in a 512 bytes sector with additional CRC
Supporting all current and future vendor flashes and technologies (NAND, AG-AND, MLC/SLC, NROM, etc) by firmware upgrades
Firmware storage in flash memory
Firmware is loaded into internal memory by the boot ROM
Flash management including mapping of logical block addresses (LBA) to corresponding physical block addresses (PBA)
Bad Block Management
Wear levelling
Power Loss Protection
Interleaving, cache, and multi-plane programming

Ordering Information:
Chip Enables	RoHS Compliant	Temperature Range	Package	Part Number
8	Yes	0 to +85°C	TQFP 100	F3-LBT05
8	Yes	-40 to +85°C	TQFP 100	F3-RBT05
16	Yes	0 to +85°C	TQFP 128	F3-LBT06
16	Yes	-40 to +85°C	TQFP 128	F3-RBT06
16		-	KGD/Wafer	F3-0BBD0

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