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“SST (Silicon Storage Technology, Inc.) has announced a new
Flash storage option for the embedded market, the ATA-Disk Chip
(ADC), which the company claims represents the industry’s first ATA
Flash drive in a common 32-pin DIP IC package. Since the ADC
mimics normal IDE drives, from both a hardware and software
perspective, designing with it should be simple.”
“But be warned: the ADC’s 32-pin DIP pinout signal assignment is
based on IDE drive connector signals, and bears therefore *NO*
relation to the well known JEDEC standard for 32-pin memory
devices. …Nor is the device compatible with M-Systems’ popular
DiskOnChip products, which also come in 32-pin DIP packaging, but
which CAN plug into ordinary EPROM/Flash/RAM byte-wide
sockets.”
“The ADC provides a write protect pin, which can be toggled to
protect contents from undesired erasure or over-write. The initial
32-pin packaged DIP devices are available in capacities ranging
from 8 to 64 MBytes, and are offered in both 5.0V and 3.3V
versions.”