June 2017
Intermediate to advanced
478 pages
13h 14m
English
One of the first managed flash technologies was CompactFlash (CF), which uses a subset of the Personal Computer Memory Card International Association (PCMCIA) hardware interface. CF exposes the memory through a parallel ATA interface and appears to the operating system as a standard hard disk. They are common in x86-based single board computers and professional video and camera equipment.
One other format that we use every day is the USB flash drive. In this case, the memory is accessed through a USB interface and the controller implements the USB mass storage specification as well as the flash translation layer and interface to the flash chip, or chips. The USB mass storage protocol, in turn, is based on the ...
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