Trends in Rugged Embedded SSDs
Solid state drives (SSDs) have been used for a number of years as storage in embedded applications where temperature, shock and vibration made mechanical storage such as disk or tape unreliable.
TeleCommunication Systems' (TCS) Space & Component Technology division, headquartered in Torrance, California, specialises in high-reliability electronics components, innovative semiconductor packaging, survivable data storage, and ultra-rugged solid state drives (SSDs).
TeleCommunication Systems’ (TCS) Space & Component Technology division, headquartered in Torrance, California, specialises in high-reliability electronics components, innovative semiconductor packaging, survivable data storage, and ultra-rugged solid state drives (SSDs).
TCS also designs and operates turnkey ground stations for national space agencies. For over 30 years, TCS has delivered high-reliability electronic components and subsystems to the aerospace and defence industries.
The APG Group designs and manufactures rugged solid-state drives (SSDs), radiation-tolerant electronic devices, and provides assembly capability. It offers strong expertise in multi-chip modules and 3D stacking, ASIC packaging, test and screening, system-in-package and custom build / packaging solutions.
TCS delivers a variety of SIP, MMIC, custom, and radiation tolerant products to several US primes and European defense contractors.
With 35 years in the military and defence markets, TCS is fully aware of the need to design in quality and reliability into our drives. Unlike many of our competitors, we do not use controller reference designs.
Our drives are designed with industrial or military temperature range parts, taking into consideration thermal, mechanical and electrical requirements.
Solid state drives for high vibration applications drives designed for high vibration applications incorporating military PCB’s, eight mounts within an anodised milled aluminium package.
We assure continued availability to our military customers through our obsolescence management. We also introduce the possibility of providing our customers with advance notice of critical component EOL.
This allows for advance procurement of the current SSD by the customer or alternatively the ability to work with TCS in partnership to advance purchase critical components and controllers, in some cases also NAND flash.
Of course we also work with customers to preserve FFF SSD in terms of a cloned SSD utilising the latest controller and NAND flash technologies and providing a FFF replacement.
Galatea solid state drives (SSDs) define the leading edge for performance and reliability in ultra-rugged mass storage.
These drives fit up to 200GB SLC NAND flash of user memory into standard 2.5in, thin (9.5mm height) dimensions and delivers sustained read / write rates of 280MB/s along with random read / write rates over 30,000 IOPS.
Combining 128-bit AES encryption with high-speed full-drive erasure (200GB in less than 1s) raises data security to new levels.
Advanced error correction pushes the bit error rate a full two orders of magnitude beyond the industry standard, while exclusive write optimisation and wear-levelling techniques reduce erase / programme cycles and achieve a 20-fold increase in media life expectancy.
The Galatea Standard SATA supports the SATA II, revision 2.6, interface standard at 1.5Gb/s and 3.0Gb/s.
The PROTEUS-Plus is available up to 256GB in SLC NAND flash, delivering sustained read/write speeds of 250MB/s and 205MB/s.
It is equipped with integrated hardware support for on-the-fly, per sector error detection and correction, and is protected by a precision-machined, anodised aluminum alloy case for ruggedness. Other features include:
The BGADrive is a complete BGA package solution that can be soldered directly to the motherboard. It is vibration and shock-resistant and has a sustained R/W speed of up to 45MB/s, with access time of 0.5ms.
The drive is operating system independent, resistant to extreme shock and vibration, and compact at 31mm x 31mm. It is equipped with a write protect pin and IDE Ultra-DMA 100.
The speed and ruggedness of the TCS’ Proteus Plus Solid State Drives is now available in bare board 2.5 PCA and MO-Series form factors for embedded use.
Available in capacities from 32GB to 256GB, these drives provide another option for delivering extreme ruggedness and reliability to applications where an industry standard drive form factor is too large.
Solid state drives (SSDs) have been used for a number of years as storage in embedded applications where temperature, shock and vibration made mechanical storage such as disk or tape unreliable.
TeleCommunication Systems Europe has released a free buyer's guide to selecting and using SSD technology for your application.
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TeleCommunication Systems Europe, a provider of high-reliability electronics components, innovative semiconductor packaging, survivable data storage, and ultra-rugged solid state drives (SSDs), has released a free buyer's guide to selecting and using SSD technology for your application.
15 May 2013The SSD market is ever-changing. A new white paper from TeleCommunication Systems Europe outlines the key milestones and takes a look at the current market and indicators of what is to come.
13 March 2013TeleCommunication Systems, a world leader in highly reliable and secure mobile communication technology, today announced its Torrance, CA facility has received the prestigious AS9100C quality certificate from the National Quality Association.
13 August 2012TeleCommunication Systems, a world leader in highly reliable and secure mobile communication technology, today announced the availability of its ultra-rugged Galatea solid-state drive (SSD) that provides high performance for a wide range of computer and vehicle applications operating in the harshest environments.
23 January 2012Trident Space & Defense, headquartered in Torrance, California, specialises in high-reliability electronics components, innovative semiconductor packaging, survivable data storage, and ultra-rugged solid state drives (SSDs). Trident also designs and operates turnkey ground stations for national
1 September 2011Trident Space & Defense is an America-based design, manufacturing, production and test company producing solid state drives for the military, defense, avionic and harsh environment applications. Our products are manufactured with quality, performance and reliability in mind. Trident is ISO900
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