Cactus 100 Series Product Manual

100 Series Industrial

Grade USB Flash Drive (UFD)

Product Manual

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CONTENTS

1. Introduction to Cactus Technologies 100 Series

Industrial Grade UFD Products ..................................................................................... 1

1.1.Supported Standards .................................................................................................................... 2

1.2.Product Features ........................................................................................................................... 2

1.2.1.Host and Technology Independence............................................................................ 2

1.2.2.Defect and Error Management ..................................................................................... 2

1.2.3.Intelligent Power Management ..................................................................................... 3

2. Power Supply Requirements ....................................................................................... 4

2.1.System Environmental Specications ......................................................................................... 4

2.2.System Power Requirements ....................................................................................................... 4

2.3.System Performance ..................................................................................................................... 5

2.4.System Reliability ........................................................................................................................... 5

2.5.Physical Specications .................................................................................................................. 5

2.5.1.UFD Physical Specications ........................................................................................... 6

2.6.Capacity Specications ................................................................................................................. 7

3. Interface Description .......................................................................................................... 8

3.1.Electrical Specication .................................................................................................................. 8

3.1.1.Absolute Maximum Ratings .......................................................................................... 8

3.1.2.DC Characteristics ........................................................................................................... 8

Appendix A.Ordering Information ..............................................................................10

Appendix B.Technical Support Services ................................................................11

Appendix C.Cactus Technologies® Worldwide Sales Oces ............... 12

Appendix D.Limited Warranty ........................................................................................ 13

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Introduction to Cactus Technologies
100 Series Industrial Grade UFD

Products01

Features

• Solid state design with no moving parts

• Plugs into industry standard USB-A

receptacles

• Compliant with USB2.0 specications

• Compliant with USB Mass Storage Class

specications v1.0

• High reliability, MTBF > 6,500,000 hrs.

• Enhanced error correction with 8-bit BCH

ECC

Overview

Cactus Technologies® UFD is a low

capacity solid-state ash memory

product that complies with the USB2.0
standard. Cactus Technologies® UFDs
provide up to 8GB of formatted storage
capacity and is designed to plug in
directly to USB-A receptacles. Cactus
Technologies® UFDs are designed to
be used in applications which require
a low capacity solid state disk that is
compatible with USB interface.

The Cactus Technologies® Industrial
Grade UFD products use high quality

ash memory from well-known vendors,

such as Samsung Corporation. In
addition, it include an on-drive intelligent
controller that manages interface
protocols, data storage and retrieval
as well as ECC, defect handling and
diagnostics, power management, and
clock control.

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1.1.

Cactus Technologies® UFD is fully electrically compatible with the following specication:

• USB2.0 Specication published by the USB Implementor's Forum

Supported Standards

1.2.

Cactus Technologies® Industrial UFD contains a high level, intelligent controller. This intelligent

controller provides many capabilities including the following:

• USB command processing.

• Management of erasing and programming the ash memory independent of the host system

• Sophisticated defect managing capabilities (similar to magnetic disk drives).

• Sophisticated system for error recovery using powerful error correction code (ECC).

• Intelligent power management for low power operation.

Cactus Technologies® Industrial UFD appears as a standard USB mass storage device to the host
system. The host computer software simply issues USB commands to the drive as per the USB

specications. The host software then waits for the commands to complete. The host system does
not get involved in the details of how the ash memory is erased, programmed or read as this is all

managed by the built-in controller in the drive. Also, with the intelligent on-board controller, the

host system software will not require changing as new ash memory evolves. Thus, systems that

support the Cactus Technologies® Industrial UFD products today will continue to work with future

Cactus Technologies® Industrial UFDs built with new ash technology without having to update or

change host software.

Product Features

1.2.1. Host and Technology Independence

1.2.2. Defect and Error Management

Cactus Technologies® Industrial UFD contains a sophisticated defect and error management
system similar to those found in magnetic disk drives. The defect management is completely
transparent to the host and does not consume any user data space.

The soft error rate for Cactus Technologies® Industrial UFDs is much lower than that of magnetic
disk drives. In the extremely rare case where a read error does occur, the drive has sophisticated
ECC to recover the data.

These defect and error management systems, coupled with the solid-state construction, give
Cactus Technologies® Industrial UFDs unparalleled reliability.

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1.2.3. Intelligent Power Management

Cactus Technologies® Industrial UFD employs sophisticated static, dynamic and global wear
leveling algorithms and intelligent bad block management to ensure high data reliability and to
maximize product life.

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Power

Supply Requirements02

Cactus Technologies Industrial DOM is a dual voltage product, which means it will operate at a

voltage range of 3.30 volts ±10% or 5.00 volts ± 10%.Product Specications

For all the following specications, values are dened at ambient temperature and nominal supply

voltage unless otherwise stated.

2.1.

Table 2-1. Environmental Specications Cactus Industrial UFD

2.2.

System Environmental Specications

Temperature

Humidity

Acoustic Noise

Vibration

Shock

Altitude
(relative to sea level)

Operating:

Operating & Non-Operating:

Operating & Non-Operating:

Operating & Non-Operating:

Operating & Non-Operating:

System Power Requirements

0° C to +70° C (Standard)

-45° C to +90° C (Extended)

8% to 95%, non-condensing

0 dB

20 G MIL-STD-883G Method 2007.3
condition A

3,000 G MIL-STD-883G Method 2002.4
condition C

100,000 feet maximum

Table 2-2. Power Requirements Cactus Industrial UFD

DC Input Voltage (VCC)
100 mV max. ripple (p-p)

(Maximum Average Value)
See Notes.

NOTES: All values quoted are typical at ambient temperature and nominal supply voltage unless otherwise stated.

Sleep mode is specied under the condition that all drive inputs are static CMOS levels and in a “Not Busy“ operating state.

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Standby:
Reading:
Writing:

5.0V ±10%

58 mA
130 mA
130 mA

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2.3.

All performance numbers are typical values assuming the card controller is in the default
(i.e., fastest) mode.

Table 2-3. Performance

System Performance

Read Transfer Rate

Write Transfer Rate

2.4.

Table 2-4. Reliability

2.5.

The following sections provide the physical specications for Cactus Technologies® Industrial UFD

products.

System Reliability

MTBF (@ 25°C)

Data Reliability

Endurance:

Physical Specications

>6,500,000 hours

<1 non-recoverable error in 10

>2,000,000 erase/program cycles

up to 33.0 Mbytes/sec*

up to 26.0 Mbytes/sec *

14

bits READ

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2.5.1. UFD Physical Specications

Refer to Figure 2-1 for Cactus 40-pin DOM physical specications and dimensions and Figure 2-2 for
Cactus 44-pin DOM physical specications.

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