Compact Flash series AP-CFxxxxE3NR-XXXXXXQ RoHS Compliant Compact Flash Series Industrial CF Specifications August 11th, 2013 Version 1.1 Apacer Technology Inc. 1F, No.32, Zhongcheng Rd., Tucheng Dist., New Taipei City, Taiwan, R.O.C Tel: +886-2-2267-8000 Fax: +886-2-2267-2261 www.apacer.com 0 (c) 2013 Apacer Technology Inc. Rev. 1.1 Compact Flash series AP-CFxxxxE3NR-XXXXXXQ Features: Compact Flash Association Specification Revision 3.0 Standard Interface - ATA command set compatible - ATA mode support for up to: PIO Mode-6 Multiword DMA Mode-4 Ultra DMA Mode-4 - Connector Type 50 pins female - - - Power consumption (typical)* Supply voltage: 3.3V & 5V Active mode: 80 mA/95 mA (3.3V/5.0V) Sleep mode: 700 A/900 A (3.3V/5.0V) Temperature ranges - Operating: Standard: 0C to 70C Extended: -40C to 85C - Storage: -40C to 100C Flash management - Advanced wear-leveling algorithms - S.M.A.R.T. technology - Built-in hardware ECC - Flash block management - Power failure management * Performance - Sustained read: up to 29 MB/sec - Sustained write: up to 15 MB/sec - Capacity 128, 256, 512 MB 1, 2, 4, 8, 16 GB NAND Flash Type: SLC Shock & Vibration** - Shock: 1,500 G - Vibration: 15 G - - - - - - - - Endurance (TBW: Terabytes Written) 128 MB: 3.3 TBW 256 MB: 6.7 TBW 512 MB: 12.9 TBW 1 GB: 25.6 TBW 2 GB: 38.4 TBW 4 GB: 51.9 TBW 8 GB: 69.8 TBW 16 GB: 115.0 TBW - Physical Dimensions 36.4mm x 42.8mm x 3.3mm RoHS compliant *Varies from capacities. The values addressed for Performance and Power consumptions are typical and may vary depending on settings and platforms. **Non-operating 1 (c) 2013 Apacer Technology Inc. Rev. 1.1 Compact Flash series AP-CFxxxxE3NR-XXXXXXQ Table of Contents 1. GENERAL DESCRIPTION .................................................................................................... 3 2. FUNCTIONAL BLOCK .......................................................................................................... 3 3. PIN ASSIGNMENTS ............................................................................................................... 4 4. PRODUCT SPECIFICATIONS.............................................................................................. 6 4.1 CAPACITY .............................................................................................................................................................6 4.2 PERFORMANCE SPECIFICATION .............................................................................................................................6 4.3 ENVIRONMENTAL SPECIFICATIONS .......................................................................................................................7 4.5 ENDURANCE ........................................................................................................................................................7 5. FLASH MANAGEMENT ........................................................................................................ 8 5.1. ADVANCED WEAR-LEVELING ALGORITHMS .........................................................................................................8 5.2 S.M.A.R.T. TECHNOLOGY ....................................................................................................................................8 5.3 BUILT-IN HARDWARE ECC ...................................................................................................................................8 5.4 FLASH BLOCK MANAGEMENT ...............................................................................................................................8 5.5 POWER FAILURE MANAGEMENT...........................................................................................................................8 6. SOFTWARE INTERFACE .................................................................................................... 9 6.1 COMMAND SET .....................................................................................................................................................9 7. ELECTRICAL SPECIFICATION ...................................................................................... 11 8. PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS ..................................................................................... 12 8.1 DIMENSION .........................................................................................................................................................12 9. PRODUCT ORDERING INFORMATION ........................................................................ 13 9.1 PRODUCT CODE DESIGNATIONS .........................................................................................................................13 9.2 VALID COMBINATIONS .......................................................................................................................................14 2 (c) 2013 Apacer Technology Inc. Rev. 1.1 Compact Flash series AP-CFxxxxE3NR-XXXXXXQ 1. General Description Apacer's value-added Industrial CompactFlash Card offers high performance, high reliability and powerefficient storage. Regarding standard compliance, this CompactFlash Card complies with CompactFlash specification revision 4.1, supporting transfer modes up to Programmed Input Output (PIO) Mode 6, Multiword Direct Memory Access (DMA) Mode 4, Ultra DMA Mode 5, and PCMCIA Ultra DMA Mode 5. Apacer's value-added CFC provides complete PCMCIA - ATA functionality and compatibility. Apacer `s CompactFlash technology is designed for applications in Point of Sale (POS) terminals, telecom, IP-STB, medical instruments, surveillance systems, industrial PCs and handheld applications such as the new generation of Digital Single Lens Reflex (DSLR) cameras. 2. Functional Block The Compact Flash Card (CFC) includes a controller and flash media, as well as the Compact Flash standard interface. Figure 2-1 shows the functional block diagram. Flash Array Flash Media Compact Flash Interface Flash Media Compact Flash Controller Flash Media Flash Media Figure 2-1: Functional block diagram 3 (c) 2013 Apacer Technology Inc. Rev. 1.1 Compact Flash series AP-CFxxxxE3NR-XXXXXXQ 3. Pin Assignments Table 3-1 lists the pin assignments with respective signal names for the 50-pin configuration. A "#" suffix indicates the active low signal. The pin type can be input, output or input/output. Table 3-1: Pin assignments (1 of 2) Pin No. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 Memory card mode Signal name GND D3 D4 D5 D6 D7 #CE1 A10 #OE A9 A8 A7 VCC A6 A5 A4 A3 A2 A1 A0 D0 D1 D2 WP #CD2 #CD1 D11 D12 D13 D14 D15 #CE2 #VS1 #IORD #IOWR #WE RDY/-BSY VCC #CSEL #VS2 RESET Pin I/O type I/O I/O I/O I/O I/O I I I I I I I I I I I I I I/O I/O I/O O O O I/O I/O I/O I/O I/O I O I I I O I O I I/O card mode Signal name GND D3 D4 D5 D6 D7 #CE1 A10 #OE A9 A8 A7 VCC A6 A5 A4 A3 A2 A1 A0 D0 D1 D2 #IOCS16 #CD2 #CD1 D11 D12 D13 D14 D15 #CE2 #VS1 #IORD #IOWR #WE -IREQ VCC #CSEL #VS2 RESET Pin I/O type I/O I/O I/O I/O I/O I I I I I I I I I I I I I I/O I/O I/O O O O I/O I/O I/O I/O I/O I O I I I O I O I True IDE mode Signal name GND D3 D4 D5 D6 D7 #CE1 1 A10 #OE 1 A9 1 A8 1 A7 VCC 1 A6 1 A5 1 A4 1 A3 A2 A1 A0 D0 D1 D2 #IOCS16 #CD2 #CD1 D11 D12 D13 D14 D15 #CE2 #VS1 #IORD #IOWR #WE INTRQ VCC #CSEL #VS2 RESET Pin I/O type I/O I/O I/O I/O I/O I I I I I I I I I I I I I I/O I/O I/O O O O I/O I/O I/O I/O I/O I O I I I O I O I 4 (c) 2013 Apacer Technology Inc. Rev. 1.1 Compact Flash series AP-CFxxxxE3NR-XXXXXXQ Table 3-1: Pin assignments (2 of 2) Pin No. 1. 2. Memory card mode Signal name Pin I/O type 42 #WAIT O 43 #INPACK O 44 -REG I 45 BVD2 O 46 BVD1 O 47 D8 I/O 48 D9 I/O 49 D10 I/O 50 GND The signal should be tied to VCC by the host. I/O card mode Signal name #WAIT #INPACK #REG #SPKR #STSCHG D8 D9 D10 GND Pin I/O type O O I O O I/O I/O I/O - True IDE mode Signal name IORDY 2 DMARQ 2 DMACK #DASP #PDIAG D8 D9 D10 GND Pin I/O type O O I I/O I/O I/O I/O I/O - Connection required when UDMA is in use. 5 (c) 2013 Apacer Technology Inc. Rev. 1.1 Compact Flash series AP-CFxxxxE3NR-XXXXXXQ 4. Product Specifications 4.1 Capacity Capacity specification of the Compact Flash Card series (CFC) is available as shown in Table 4-1. It lists the specific capacity and the default numbers of heads, sectors and cylinders for each product line. Table 4-1: Capacity specifications Capacity Total bytes 1,2 Cylinders Heads Sectors Max LBA 128 MB 128,450,560 980 8 32 250,880 256 MB 256,901,120 980 16 32 501,760 512 MB 512,483,328 993 16 63 1,000,944 1GB 1,024,966,656 1,986 16 63 2,001,888 2GB 2,048,901,120 3,970 16 63 4,001,760 4GB 4,110,188,544 7,964 16 63 8,027,712 8GB 8,195,604,480 15,880 16 63 16,007,040 16GB 16,391,208,960 16,3833 16 63 32,014,080 Notes: Display of total bytes varies from operating systems. Cylinders, heads or sectors are not applicable for these capacities. Only LBA addressing applies Notes: 1 GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes; 1 sector = 512 bytes. LBA count addressed in the table above indicates total user storage capacity and will remain the same throughout the lifespan of the device. However, the total usable capacity of the SSD is most likely to be less than the total physical capacity because a small portion of the capacity is reserved for device maintenance usages. 4.2 Performance Specification Performances of the CF cards are listed in Table 4-2 Table 4-2: Performance specifications Capacity 128 MB 256 MB 512 MB 1 GB 2 GB 4 GB 8 GB 16 GB Sustained read (MB/s) 17 29 19 21 20 21 21 20 Sustained write (MB/s) 4 8 7 12 11 11 13 15 Performance Notes: performance may vary depending on flash configurations or host system settings. 6 (c) 2013 Apacer Technology Inc. Rev. 1.1 Compact Flash series AP-CFxxxxE3NR-XXXXXXQ 4.3 Environmental Specifications Environmental specification of the Compact Flash Card series (CFC) follows the MIL-STD-810F standards as shown in Table 4-3. Table 4-3: Environmental specifications Environment Temperature Specification Operation 0C to 70C; -40C to 85C (Extended Temperature) Storage -40C to 100C Vibration (Non-Operation) Shock (Non-Operation) Sine wave : 10~2000Hz, 15G (X, Y, Z axes) Half sine wave 1,500G (X, Y, Z ; All 6 axes) 4.5 Endurance The endurance of a storage device is predicted by TeraBytes Written based on several factors related to usage, such as the amount of data written into the drive, block management conditions, and daily workload for the drive. Thus, key factors, such as Write Amplifications and the number of P/E cycles, can influence the lifespan of the drive. Capacity TeraBytes Written 128 MB 3.3 256 MB 6.7 512 MB 12.9 1 GB 25.6 2 GB 38.4 4 GB 51.9 8 GB 69.8 16 GB 115.0 Notes: The measurement assumes the data written to the SSD for test is under a typical and constant rate. The measurement follows the standard metric: 1 TB (Terabyte) = 1000 GB. 7 (c) 2013 Apacer Technology Inc. Rev. 1.1 Compact Flash series AP-CFxxxxE3NR-XXXXXXQ 5. Flash Management 5.1. Advanced wear-leveling algorithms Flash memory devices differ from Hard Disk Drives (HDDs) in terms of how blocks are utilized. For HDDs, when a change is made to stored data, like erase or update, the controller mechanism on HDDs will perform overwrites on blocks. Unlike HDDs, flash blocks cannot be overwritten and each P/E cycle wears down the lifespan of blocks gradually. Repeatedly program/erase cycles performed on the same memory cells will eventually cause some blocks to age faster than others. This would bring flash storages to their end of service term sooner. Wear leveling is an important mechanism that level out the wearing of blocks so that the wearing-down of blocks can be almost evenly distributed. This will increase the lifespan of SSDs. Commonly used wear leveling types are Static and Dynamic. 5.2 S.M.A.R.T. technology S.M.A.R.T. is an acronym for Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology, an open standard allowing disk drives to automatically monitor their own health and report potential problems. It protects the user from unscheduled downtime by monitoring and storing critical drive performance and calibration parameters. Ideally, this should allow taking proactive actions to prevent impending drive failure. Apacer SMART feature adopts the standard SMART command B0h to read data from the drive. When the Apacer SMART Utility running on the host, it analyzes and reports the disk status to the host before the device is in critical condition. 5.3 Built-in hardware ECC The ATA-Disk Module uses BCH Error Detection Code (EDC) and Error Correction Code (ECC) algorithms which correct up to eight random single-bit errors for each 512-byte block of data. High performance is fulfilled through hardware-based error detection and correction. 5.4 Flash block management Current production technology is unable to guarantee total reliability of NAND flash memory array. When a flash memory device leaves factory, it comes with a minimal number of initial bad blocks during production or out-of-factory as there is no currently known technology that produce flash chips free of bad blocks. In addition, bad blocks may develop during program/erase cycles. When host performs program/erase command on a block, bad block may appear in Status Register. Since bad blocks are inevitable, the solution is to keep them in control. Apacer flash devices are programmed with ECC, block mapping technique and S.M.A.R.T to reduce invalidity or error. Once bad blocks are detected, data in those blocks will be transferred to free blocks and error will be corrected by designated algorithms. 5.5 Power Failure Management Power Failure Management plays a crucial role when experiencing unstable power supply. Power disruption may occur when users are storing data into the SSD. In this urgent situation, the controller would run multiple write-to-flash cycles to store the metadata for later block rebuilding. This urgent operation requires about several milliseconds to get it done. At the next power up, the firmware will perform a status tracking to retrieve the mapping table and resume previously programmed NAND blocks to check if there is any incompleteness of transmission. 8 (c) 2013 Apacer Technology Inc. Rev. 1.1 Compact Flash series AP-CFxxxxE3NR-XXXXXXQ 6. Software Interface 6.1 Command Set Table 6-1 summarizes the command set with the paragraphs that follow describing the individual commands and the task file for each. Table 6-1: Command set (1 of 2) Command Code Check-Power-Mode E5H or 98H Execute-Drive-Diagnostic 90H Erase Sector(s) C0H Flush-Cache E7H Format Track 50H Identify-Drive ECH Idle E3H or 97H Idle-Immediate E1H or 95H Initialize-Drive-Parameters 91H NOP 00H Read-Buffer E4H Read-DMA C8H or C9H Read-Multiple C4H Read-Sector(s) 20H or 21H Read-Verify-Sector(s) 40H or 41H Recalibrate 1XH Request-Sense 03H Seek 7XH Set-Features EFH SMART B0H Set-Multiple-Mode C6H Set-Sleep-Mode E6H or 99H Standby E2H or 96H Standby-lmmediate E0H or 94H Translate-Sector 87H Write-Buffer E8H Write-DMA CAH or CBH Write-Multiple C5H Write-Multiple-Without-Erase CDH 9 (c) 2013 Apacer Technology Inc. Rev. 1.1 Compact Flash series AP-CFxxxxE3NR-XXXXXXQ Write-Sector(s) 30H or 31H Write-Sector-Without-Erase 38H Write-Verify 3CH 10 (c) 2013 Apacer Technology Inc. Rev. 1.1 Compact Flash series AP-CFxxxxE3NR-XXXXXXQ 7. Electrical Specification Caution: Absolute Maximum Stress Ratings - Applied conditions greater than those listed under "Absolute Maximum Stress Ratings" may cause permanent damage to the device. This is a stress rating only and functional operation of the device at these conditions or conditions greater than those defined in the operational sections of this data sheet is not implied. Exposure to absolute maximum stress rating conditions may affect device reliability. Table 7-1: Operating range Standard Operating Temperature 0C to +70C Extended Operating Temperature Supply voltage -40C to +85C 5V 5% (4.75-5.25V) 3.3V 5% (3.135-3.465V) Table 7-2: Absolute maximum power pin stress ratings Parameter Symbol Input Power Voltage on any pin except VDD with respect to GND VDD V Conditions -0.3V min. to 6.5V max. -0.5V min. to VDD + 0.5V max. Table 7-3: Recommended system power-up timing Symbol Parameter 1 TPU-READY 1 TPU-WRITE Power-up to Ready Operation Power-up to Write Operation Typical Maximum Units 200 200 1000 1000 ms ms 1. This parameter is measured only for initial qualification and after a design or process change that could affect this parameter. 11 (c) 2013 Apacer Technology Inc. Rev. 1.1 Compact Flash series AP-CFxxxxE3NR-XXXXXXQ 8. Physical Characteristics 8.1 Dimension TABLE 8-1: Type I CFC physical specification Length: Width: Thickness (Including Label Area): 36.40 +/- 0.15mm (1.433+/- 0.06 in.) 42.80 +/- 0.10mm (1.685+/- 0.04 in.) 3.3mm+/-0.10mm (0.130+/-0.04in.) Unit: mm FIGURE 8-1: Physical dimension 12 (c) 2013 Apacer Technology Inc. Rev. 1.1 Compact Flash series AP-CFxxxxE3NR-XXXXXXQ 9. Product Ordering Information 9.1 Product Code Designations A P - C F x x x x E 3 N R - XXXXXX Q Firmware version Specification NR: Non-Removable Setting NDNR: Non-DMA + Non-Removable ETNR: Ext. Temp. + Non-Removable ETNDNR: Ext. Temp + Non-DMA + Non-Removable RoHS Compliant Configuration N: Standard Controller Type CFC Type Capacity: 128M: 256M: 512M: 001G: 002G: 004G: 008G: 016G: 128MB 256MB 512MB 1GB 2GB 4GB 8GB 16GB Model Name Apacer Product Code 13 (c) 2013 Apacer Technology Inc. Rev. 1.1 Compact Flash series AP-CFxxxxE3NR-XXXXXXQ 9.2 Valid Combinations Standard Temperature Non-Removable Capacity Model Number 128MB AP-CF128ME3NR-NRQ 256MB AP-CF256ME3NR-NRQ 512MB AP-CF512ME3NR-NRQ 1GB AP-CF001GE3NR-NRQ 2GB AP-CF002GE3NR-NRQ 4GB AP-CF004GE3NR-NRQ 8GB AP-CF008GE3NR-NRQ 16GB AP-CF016GE3NR-NRQ Non-DMA & Non-Removable Capacity Model Number 128MB AP-CF128ME3NR-NDNRQ 256MB AP-CF256ME3NR-NDNRQ 512MB AP-CF512ME3NR-NDNRQ 1GB AP-CF001GE3NR-NDNRQ 2GB AP-CF002GE3NR-NDNRQ 4GB AP-CF004GE3NR-NDNRQ 8GB AP-CF008GE3NR-NDNRQ 16GB AP-CF016GE3NR-NDNRQ 14 (c) 2013 Apacer Technology Inc. Rev. 1.1 Compact Flash series AP-CFxxxxE3NR-XXXXXXQ Extended Temperature Non-Removable Capacity Model Number 128MB AP-CF128ME3NR-ETNRQ 256MB AP-CF256ME3NR-ETNRQ 512MB AP-CF512ME3NR-ETNRQ 1GB AP-CF001GE3NR-ETNRQ 2GB AP-CF002GE3NR-ETNRQ 4GB AP-CF004GE3NR-ETNRQ 8GB AP-CF008GE3NR-ETNRQ 16GB AP-CF016GE3NR-ETNRQ Non-DMA & Non-Removable Capacity Model Number 128MB AP-CF128ME3NR-ETNDNRQ 256MB AP-CF256ME3NR-ETNDNRQ 512MB AP-CF512ME3NR-ETNDNRQ 1GB AP-CF001GE3NR-ETNDNRQ 2GB AP-CF002GE3NR-ETNDNRQ 4GB AP-CF004GE3NR-ETNDNRQ 8GB AP-CF008GE3NR-ETNDNRQ 16GB AP-CF016GE3NR-ETNDNRQ 15 (c) 2013 Apacer Technology Inc. Rev. 1.1 Compact Flash series AP-CFxxxxE3NR-XXXXXXQ Revision History Revision 1.0 Date Description 05/19/2011 Official release Remark Updated performance and product ordering information due to change in NAND flash use 1.1 08/11/2013 Updated the address of Taiwan headquarter Added endurance TBW section to replace MTBF 16 (c) 2013 Apacer Technology Inc. Rev. 1.1 Compact Flash series AP-CFxxxxE3NR-XXXXXXQ Global Presence Taiwan (Headquarters) Apacer Technology Inc. Apacer Technology Inc. 1F., No.32, Zhongcheng Rd., Tucheng Dist., New Taipei City 236, Taiwan R.O.C. Tel: 886-2-2267-8000 Fax: 886-2-2267-2261 amtsales@apacer.com U.S.A. Apacer Memory America, Inc. 386 Fairview Way, Suite102, Milpitas, CA 95035 Tel: 1-408-518-8699 Fax: 1-408-935-9611 sa@apacerus.com Japan Apacer Technology Corp. 5F, Matsura Bldg., Shiba, Minato-Ku Tokyo, 105-0014, Japan Tel: 81-3-5419-2668 Fax: 81-3-5419-0018 jpservices@apacer.com Europe Apacer Technology B.V. Science Park Eindhoven 5051 5692 EB Son, The Netherlands Tel: 31-40-267-0000 Fax: 31-40-267-0000#6199 sales@apacer.nl China Apacer Electronic (Shanghai) Co., Ltd 1301, No.251,Xiaomuqiao Road, Shanghai, 200032, China Tel: 86-21-5529-0222 Fax: 86-21-5206-6939 sales@apacer.com.cn India Apacer Technologies Pvt. Ltd. # 535, 1st Floor, 8th cross, JP Nagar 3rd Phase, Bangalore - 560078, India Tel: 91-80-4152-9061 sales_india@apacer.com 17 (c) 2013 Apacer Technology Inc. Rev. 1.1 Mouser Electronics Authorized Distributor Click to View Pricing, Inventory, Delivery & Lifecycle Information: Apacer: AP-CF004GE3NR-ETNDNRQ AP-CF016GE3NR-NDNRQ AP-CF001GE3NR-ETNDNRQ AP-CF001GE3NR-ETNRQ AP-CF001GE3NR-NDNRQ AP-CF008GE3NR-NRQ AP-CF002GE3NR-ETNDNRQ AP-CF008GE3NR-ETNDNRQ AP-CF256ME3NR-ETNRQ AP-CF002GE3NR-NRQ AP-CF004GE3NR-NDNRQ AP-CF256ME3NR-NDNRQ APCF128ME3NR-ETNRQ AP-CF512ME3NR-NRQ AP-CF016GE3NR-ETNRQ AP-CF001GE3NR-NRQ APCF256ME3NR-ETNDNRQ AP-CF002GE3NR-NDNRQ AP-CF008GE3NR-NDNRQ AP-CF016GE3NR-ETNDNRQ APCF004GE3NR-NRQ AP-CF128ME3NR-ETNDNRQ AP-CF128ME3NR-NDNRQ AP-CF016GE3NR-NRQ APCF004GE3NR-ETNRQ AP-CF512ME3NR-ETNRQ AP-CF256ME3NR-NRQ AP-CF512ME3NR-NDNRQ APCF512ME3NR-ETNDNRQ AP-CF128ME3NR-NRQ AP-CF008GE3NR-ETNRQ AP-CF002GE3NR-ETNRQ