RoHS Compliant
ATA CF
Specifications
August 27th, 2013
Version 1.6
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
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Features:
Standard ATA/IDE bus interface bus
interface
– ATA command set compatible
– ATA mode support for up to:
PIO Mode-4
Multiword DMA Mode-2
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: 500 µA/600 µA (3.3V/5.0V)
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
Physical Dimensions
– 36.4mm x 42.8mm x 3.3mm
Temperature ranges
– Operation:
Standard: 0°C to 70°C
Extended: -40°C to 85°C
– Storage: -40°C to 100°C
Flash management
– Advanced wear-leveling algorithms
– S.M.A.R.T. technology
– Built-in hardware ECC
– Flash block management
– Power failure management
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
RoHS compliant
Shock & Vibration**
– Shock: 1500G
– Vibration: 15G
MTBF > 2,000,000 hours
*The values addressed here for performance and power consumption are typical and may vary depending on configurations and
platforms.
**Non-operating
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Table of Contents
1. GENERAL DESCRIPTION .................................................................................................... 3
2. FUNCTIONAL BLOCK .......................................................................................................... 3
3. PIN ASSIGNMENTS ............................................................................................................... 4
4. PRODUCT SPECIFICATIONS.............................................................................................. 5
4.1 CAPACITY .............................................................................................................................................................5
4.2 PERFORMANCE .....................................................................................................................................................5
4.3 ENVIRONMENTAL .................................................................................................................................................6
4.4 ENDURANCE ........................................................................................................................................................6
4.5 MEAN TIME BETWEEN FAILURES (MTBF) ...........................................................................................................6
5. FLASH MANAGEMENT ........................................................................................................ 7
5.1. ADVANCED WEAR-LEVELING ALGORITHMS .........................................................................................................7
5.2 S.M.A.R.T. TECHNOLOGY ....................................................................................................................................7
5.3 BUILT-IN HARDWARE ECC ...................................................................................................................................7
5.4 FLASH BLOCK MANAGEMENT ...............................................................................................................................7
5.5 POWER FAILURE MANAGEMENT...........................................................................................................................7
6. SOFTWARE INTERFACE .................................................................................................... 8
6.1 COMMAND SET .....................................................................................................................................................8
7. ELECTRICAL SPECIFICATION ...................................................................................... 10
8. PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS..................................................................................... 11
8.1 DIMENSION .........................................................................................................................................................11
9. PRODUCT ORDERING INFORMATION........................................................................ 12
9.1 PRODUCT CODE DESIGNATIONS .........................................................................................................................12
9.2 VALID COMBINATIONS.......................................................................................................................................13
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1. General Description
Apacer’s ATA CF offers reliable and high performance storage compatible with CF Type I and Type II
devices. Unlike the ordinary cards, Apacer ATA CF provides solid compatibilities for use in Point of Sale
(POS) terminals, telecom, IP-STB, medical instruments, surveillance systems, industrial PCs and
handheld applications.
With featuring technologies as wear leveling, S.M.A.R.T, built-in hardware ECC, flash block management,
and power failure management, the ATA CF is the ideal embedded storage for mission oriented
applications.
2. Functional Block
The ATA CF includes a controller and flash media, as well as the ATA CF standard interface. Figure 2-1
shows the functional block diagram.
Figure 2-1: Functional block diagram
Flash
Media
Flash
Media
Flash
Media
Flash
Media
Flash Array
ATA CF
Interface
ATA CF
Controller
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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
True IDE mode True IDE mode
Pin No.
Signal name
Pin I/O type
Pin No.
Signal name
Pin I/O type
1 GND - 26 #CD1 O
2 D3 I/O 27 D11 I/O
3 D4 I/O 28 D12 I/O
4 D5 I/O 29 D13 I/O
5 D6 I/O 30 D14 I/O
6 D7 I/O 31 D15 I/O
7 #CE1 I 32 #CE2 I
8 GND
- 33 #VS1 O
9 GND
- 34 #IORD I
10 GND
- 35 #IOWR I
11 GND
- 36 VCC -
12 GND
- 37 INTRQ O
13 VCC
- 38 VCC -
14 GND
- 39 #CSEL I
15 GND
- 40 #WP_PD* I
16 GND
- 41 RESET I
17 GND
- 42 IORDY O
18 A2 I 43 DMARQ** O
19 A1 I 44 DMACK** I
20 A0 I 45 #DASP I/O
21 D0 I/O 46 #PDIAG I/O
22 D1 I/O 47 D8 I/O
23 D2 I/O 48 D9 I/O
24 #IOCS16 O 49 D10 I/O
25 #CD2 O 50 GND -
*Write-Protect enabled when pin 40 assigned to GND.
**Connection required when UDMA is in use.
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4. Product Specifications
4.1 Capacity
Capacity specification of the ATA CF series 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 Cylinders Heads Sectors Max LBA
128 MB 128,057,344 977 8 32 250,112
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 1986 16 63 2,001,888
2GB 2,048,385,024 3969 16 63 4,000,752
4GB 4,096,253,952 7937 16 63 8,000,496
8GB 8,001,552,384 15504 16 63 15,628,032
16GB 16,001,040,384 16383* 16 63 31,252,032
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
Performances of the CF cards are listed in Table 4-2
Table 4-2: Performance specifications
Capacity
Performance
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
Notes: performance may vary depending on flash configurations or host system settings.
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4.3 Environmental
Environmental specification of the ATA CF follows the MIL-STD-810F standards as shown in Table 4-4.
Table 4-3: Environmental specifications
Environment Specification
Operation 0°C to 70°C; -40°C to 85°C (Extended Temperature)
Temperature Storage -40°C to 100°C
Vibration (Non-Operation) Sine wave : 10~2000Hz, 15G (X, Y, Z axes)
Shock (Non-Operation) Half sine wave 1,500G (X, Y, Z ; All 6 axes)
4.4 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.
4.5 Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF)
Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) is predicted based on reliability data for the individual components
in our drive device. Although many component of MTBF are given in databases and often these values
are not really accurate, the prediction result for this unit more than 2,000,000 hours for its SLC flash
configuration
Notes about the MTBF:
The MTBF is predicated and calculated based on “Telcordia Technologies Special Report, SR-332, Issue
2” method.
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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.
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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
Security-Disable-Password F6H
Security-Erase-Prepare F3H
Security-Erase-Unit F4H
Security-Freeze-Lock F5H
Security-Set-Password F1H
Security-Unlock F2H
Seek 7XH
Set-Features EFH
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Table 6-1: Command set (2 of 2)
Command Code
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
Write-Sector(s) 30H or 31H
Write-Sector-Without-Erase 38H
Write-Verify 3CH
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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
0°C to +70°C Operating Temperature
-40°C to +85°C
5
V± 5% (
4.75-5.25V)
Supply voltage
3.3V
± 5% (
3.135-3.465V)
Table 7-2: Absolute maximum power pin stress ratings
Parameter Symbol Conditions
Input Power V
DD
-0.3V min. to 6.5V max.
Voltage on any pin except V
DD
with respect to GND V -0.5V min. to VDD + 0.5V max.
Table 7-3: Recommended system power-up timing
Symbol Parameter Typical Maximum Units
T
PU-READY
* Power-up to Ready Operation 200 1000 ms
T
PU-WRITE
* Power-up to Write Operation 200 1000 ms
*This parameter is measured only for initial qualification and after a design or process change that could affect this parameter.
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8. Physical Characteristics
8.1 Dimension
TABLE 8-1: Type I CFC physical specification
Length:
36.40 +/- 0.15mm (1.433+/- 0.06 in.)
Width:
42.80 +/- 0.10mm (1.685+/- 0.04 in.)
Thickness (Including Label Area):
3.3mm+/-0.10mm (0.130+/-0.04in.)
FIGURE 8-1: Physical dimension
Unit: mm
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9. Product Ordering Information
9.1 Product Code Designations
A P – C F x x x x H 4 X R – XXXXXX Q
CFC Type
Capacity
:
128M: 128MB
256M: 256MB
512M: 512MB
001G: 1GB
002G: 2GB
004G: 4GB
008G: 8GB
016G: 16GB
Model Name
Apacer Product Code
Configuration
N: Standard
Specification
NR: Non-Removable Setting
NDNR: Non-DMA + Non-Removable
ETNR: Ext. Temp. + Non-Removable
ETNDNR: Ext. Temp + Non-DMA + Non-Removable
RoHS Compliant
Controller Type
FW Version
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9.2 Valid Combinations
Standard Temperature
Non-Removable
Capacity
Model Number
128MB AP-CF128MH4NR-NRQ
256MB AP-CF256MH4NR-NRQ
512MB AP-CF512MH4NR-NRQ
1GB AP-CF001GH4NR-NRQ
2GB AP-CF002GH4NR-NRQ
4GB AP-CF004GH4NR-NRQ
8GB AP-CF008GH4NR-NRQ
16GB AP-CF016GH4NR-NRQ
Non-DMA & Non-Removable
Capacity
Model Number
128MB AP-CF128MH4NR-NDNRQ
256MB AP-CF256MH4NR-NDNRQ
512MB AP-CF512MH4NR-NDNRQ
1GB AP-CF001GH4NR-NDNRQ
2GB AP-CF002GH4NR-NDNRQ
4GB AP-CF004GH4NR-NDNRQ
8GB AP-CF008GH4NR-NDNRQ
16GB AP-CF016GH4NR-NDNRQ
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Extended Temperature
Non-Removable
Capacity
Model Number
128MB
AP-CF128MH4NR-ETNRQ
256MB
AP-CF256MH4NR-ETNRQ
512MB
AP-CF512MH4NR-ETNRQ
1GB AP-CF001GH4NR-ETNRQ
2GB AP-CF002GH4NR-ETNRQ
4GB AP-CF004GH4NR-ETNRQ
8GB AP-CF008GH4NR-ETNRQ
16GB AP-CF016GH4NR-ETNRQ
Non-DMA & Non-Removable
Capacity
Model Number
128MB
AP-CF128MH4NR-ETNDNRQ
256MB
AP-CF256MH4NR-ETNDNRQ
512MB
AP-CF512MH4NR-ETNDNRQ
1GB AP-CF001GH4NR-ETNDNRQ
2GB AP-CF002GH4NR-ETNDNRQ
4GB AP-CF004GH4NR-ETNDNRQ
8GB AP-CF008GH4NR-ETNDNRQ
16GB AP-CF016GH4NR-ETNDNRQ
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Revision History
Revision Date Description Remark
0.1 02/16/2009 Preliminary
0.2 02/18/2009 Updated pin assignments
1.0 02/23/2009 Official release
1.1 03/06/2009 Product name changed
1.2 04/01/2009 Updated feature and valid combination wording
1.3 01/06/2010 Corrected valid combinations
1.4 03/22/2011 Updated Performance Specification & Product Ordering
Information
1.5 03/22/2012 Updated performance information
1.6 08/27/2013 Updated performance information due to change in flash
configurations
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