“The X1 has been rigorously tested in sudden power fail situations and for reliability, offering superb FIT rates,” claimed the German firm. “The industrial flash controller with full SATA compliance is now in mass production.”
It is a SATA III SSD controller, and is available with firmware and reference designs for industrial and embedded storage. On-board is a proprietary dual-core processor with security features including SRAM ECC, end-to-end data path protection, wear levelling, read-disturb management, data refresh, power-fail control, protection against radiation, protection against soft errors and a low-alpha package.
“Even the most reliable components, if used 24 hours, 365 days and for 10 years, might have to be serviced at some point,” said Hyperstone product manager Sandro-Diego Wölfle. “We provide health-monitoring tools and data exceeding the standard S.M.A.R.T. scope for predictive maintenance as well as for qualification and life-time estimation before deploying storage media to the field.”
Operation is over -40°C to +85°C, with “extension up to 105°C possible”, according to the firm, and sleep power consumption can be as low as 3mW.
In addition to NAND flash support for industrial applications, the firm provides health monitoring tools aimed at system-level qualification.
Hyperstone is a fabless semiconductor company based in Konstanz.
