Without any mechanical moving parts and storage solutions

Most of the information used in entertainment systems rely on a ruggedized hard drive to store data. These devices generally provide the 40GB to 50GB capacity. As an established and mature technology, hard drive provides a number of attractive advantages. In accordance with the price per GB of view, presents a cost-effective solution for designers. Can overcome the hard drive inherent seek and rotational latency time (for example, the majority of read accesses are sequential). Applications, hard drive in a short time transport large amounts of data. But in the increasingly complex infotainment systems, in terms of the selection of the storage subsystem, other factors play an increasingly important role.

In many applications, large data storage space available on the hard drive is almost not provide any benefits for the car infotainment system designers, this is because most systems only need 4GB to 8GB memory would be sufficient for current multimedia applications. Moreover, the automotive industry has high expectations for the reliability of the very demanding requirements on reinforcement, which led to its strong preference for some storage subsystem has a high endurance for shock, vibration, heat and moisture.

Given these trends, a new generation of industrial-grade small-size solid-state drive (SSD) provides a very attractive storage options for in-car infotainment system designers. These products provide the integrated version of the discrete version. SST's NANDrive product line integrated NAND module integrated ATA controller and one or more pieces of NAND flash memory grain combination in a single package. These devices provide a complete IDE flash disk drive capabilities compatible and compact 12mmx18mmx1.4mmBGA package. The designer simply BGA installed on the system board. Boot time via the ATA or IDE interface of the device as a system drive.

As a fully silicon-based and does not contain any mechanical moving parts, storage solutions, these drives provide designers with a better opportunity to meet the stringent shock and vibration specifications of the automotive industry. From a performance point of view, the small size car dvd and car gps SSD not only eliminate the seeking process (an average of 13ms) disk storage system must perform, but also provides read and write performance of up to 30Mbps. The quality of the current generation NANDrive devices in line with the requirements of the industrial temperature range, and provides up to 8GB of storage space, can provide higher density.

The two main advantages of the small size of the SSD is smaller, high-performance. In the past decade, car manufacturers in the automotive, the introduction of a growing number of electronic subsystems, therefore reducing the electronic equipment size has become an increasing priority work. For example, ordinary car integration 30-50 microcontroller-based system. Although hard drive manufacturers continue to make progress in size reduction compared with alternative products, the current drive is still much larger space. For example, the standard size 40GB hard drive 70mmx100mmx9.5mm industrial-grade version of the NANDrive you 12mmx24mmx1.4mm. Reduce the weight, weighing only 0.8g of the NANDrive less than one percent of the weight of the hard drive.