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Tel: +886-2-2698-2888 Fax: +886-2-2698-2889

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Features:

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Standard ATA/IDE bus interface

– ATA command set compatible

– ATA operating mode supports up to:

PIO Mode-4

Multiword DMA Mode-2

Ultra DMA Mode-4

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Connector type

– 40-pin ZIF

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Low power consumption (typical)

– Supply voltage: 3.3V

– Active mode: 75mA

– Sleep mode: 2000µA

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Performance

– Sustained read: Up to 35 MB/sec

– Sustained write: Up to 15 MB/sec

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Capacity

– 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32 GB

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NAND Flash Type: SLC

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Temperature ranges

– Operation:

Standard: 0°C to 70°C

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: -40°C to 85°C

– Storage: -40°C to 100°C

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Flash management

– Intelligent endurance design

Advanced wear-leveling algorithms

S.M.A.R.T. Technology

Built-in Hardware ECC

Enhanced Data Integrity

– Intelligent power failure recovery

– Enhanced security level

Secure Protection Zone

ATA Secure Erase

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RoHS compliant

1. Extended Temperature

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Table of Contents

1. GENERAL DESCRIPTION........................................................................................3

1.1 Performance-Optimized Controller......................................................................................................3

1.1.1 Power Management Unit (PMU)...................................................................................................3

1.1.2 SRAM Buffer.................................................................................................................................3

2. FUNCTIONAL BLOCK...............................................................................................4

3. PIN ASSIGNMENTS...................................................................................................5

4. CAPACITY SPECIFICATION .....................................................................................6

4.1 Performance Specification ..................................................................................................................6

4.2 Environmental Specification................................................................................................................6

5. FLASH MANAGEMENT.............................................................................................7

5.1 Intelligent Endurance Design ..............................................................................................................7

5.1.1 Advanced wear-leveling algorithms..............................................................................................7

5.1.2 S.M.A.R.T. technology..................................................................................................................7

5.1.3 Built-in hardware ECC ..................................................................................................................7

5.1.4 Enhanced data integrity................................................................................................................7

5.2 Intelligent Power Failure Recovery......................................................................................................8

5.3 Enhanced Security Level.....................................................................................................................8

5.3.1 Secure protection zone.................................................................................................................8

5.3.2 ATA Secure Erase........................................................................................................................8

6. SOFTWARE INTERFACE .........................................................................................9

6.1 Command Set......................................................................................................................................9

7. ELECTRICAL SPECIFICATION...............................................................................11

8. PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS.............................................................................12

8.1 Dimension..........................................................................................................................................12

9. PRODUCT ORDERING INFORMATION..................................................................1 3

9.1 Product Code Designation ................................................................................................................13

9.2 Valid Combinations............................................................................................................................14

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1. General Description

Apacer’s ATA-Flash Drive (AFD) is a high-performance, solid state drive (SSD) designed to replace a

conventional IDE hard disk drive. AFD supports standard ATA/IDE protocol and can be plugged into a ZIF

connector commonly found in portable PCs. It is more rugged, reliable and power-efficient compared to

the mechanical hard drive and is designed for use in rugged laptops, military devices, thin clients, Point of

Sale (POS) terminals, telecom, medical instruments, surveillance systems and industrials PCs. Apacer

AFD Series is the best drop-in replacement for high-maintenance HDD where reliability is a major

concern.

AFD includes a built-in microcontroller and file management firmware that communicates through with the

ATA standard interfaces and is set to the Master operation in default. This means the AFD does not

require any additional or proprietary host software such as the Flash File System (FFS) and Memory

Technology Driver (MTD) software. AFD is designed to work at 3.3 Volts, support the standard ATA/IDE

protocol up to PIO Mode-4, Multiword DMA Mode-2, and Ultra DMA Mode-4 interfaces and uses a

standard ATA driver that fits to all major operating systems such as Microsoft’s Windows series, MAC OS,

and UNIX variants.

Featuring technologies as Advanced Wear-leveling algorithms, S.M.A.R.T, Built-In Hardware ECC,

Enhanced Data Integrity, Intelligent Power Failure Recovery, Secure Protection Zone and ATA Secure

Erase, Apacer’s AFD assures users of a versatile device on data storage.

1.1 Performance-Optimized Controller

The heart of an ATA-Flash Drive is the ATA controller, which translates standard ATA signals into the

Flash Media data and controls of the flash media. This proprietary ATA controller is specifically designed

to attain high data throughput from the host to the flash.

1.1.1 Power Management Unit (PMU)

The power management unit (PMU) controls the power consumption of the ATA-Flash Drive. It reduces

the power consumption of the ATA-Flash Drive Controller by putting circuitry not in operation into sleep

mode. The PMU has zero wake-up latency.

1.1.2 SRAM Buffer

The ATA Flash Drive Controller performs as an SRAM buffer to optimize the host’s data transfer to and

from the flash media.

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2. Functional Block

The ATA-Flash Drive (AFD) includes the ATA controller and flash media, as well as the ATA standard

interface. Figure 2-1 shows the functional block diagram.

Figure 2-1: Functional block diagram

ATA

Controller

Flash

Media

Flash

Media

Flash

Media

Flash

Media

Flash Array

HOST

ATA/IDE Bus

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3. Pin Assignments

Table 3-1 lists the pin assignments with respective signal names for the 40-pin configuration. A “#” suffix

indicates the active low signal. The pin type can be input, output or input/output.

Table 3-1: Pin assignment

Pin No.

SIGNALS Pin No.

SIGNALS

1 Reserved 21 GROUND

2 Reserved 22 DMARQ

3 RESET# 23 GROUND

4 GROUND 24 DIOW#

5 DD 7 25 DIOR#

6 DD 8 26 GROUND

7 DD 6 27 IORDY

8 DD 9 28 GROUND

9 DD 5 29 DMACK#

10 DD 10 30 INTRQ

11 DD 4 31 A1

12 DD 11 32 PDIAG#

13 DD 3 33 A0

14 DD 12 34 A2

15 DD 2 35 CS0#

16 DD 13 36 CS1#

17 DD 1 37 DASP#

18 DD 14 38 3.3V

19 DD 0 39 3.3V

20 DD 15 40 CSEL

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4. Capacity Specification

Capacity specification of the ATA-Flash Drive (AFD) product family is available in Table 4-1. It lists the

specific capacity and the default numbers of cylinder heads, sectors and cylinders for each product line.

Table 4-1: Capacity specification

Capacity Total bytes Cylinders Heads Sectors Max LBA

1GB 1,024,966,656 1986 16 63 2,001,888

2GB 2,048,385,024 3969 16 63 4,000,752

4GB 4,096,253,952 7937 16 63 8,000,496

8GB 8,001,552,384 15504 16 63 15,628,032

16 GB 16,001,040,384 16383 16 63 31,252,032

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32 GB 32,001,048,576 16383 16 63 62,502,048

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1 Cylinders, heads or sectors are not applicable for these capacities. Only LBA addressing applies.

4.1 Performance Specification

Performance of the ATA-Flash Disk is listed in Table 4-2.

Table 4-2: Performance specifications

Capacity

Performance 1GB / 2GB / 4GB 8 GB 16GB / 32 GB

Sustained read (MB/s) 25 35 35

Sustained write (MB/s) 7 10 15

1. Above figures measured based on flash configurations.

4.2 Environmental Specification

Environmental specification of the ATA-Flash Drive which follows the MIL-STD-810F standards is

available as shown in Table 4-3.

Table 4-3: Environmental specifications

Environment Specification

Operation 0°C to 70°C; -40°C to 85°C (ET

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Temperature Storage -40°C to 100°C

Humidity 5% to 95% RH (Non-condensing)

Vibration (Non-Operation) Sine wave: 10~2000Hz, 15G (X, Y, Z axes)

Shock (Non-Operation) Half sine wave, Peak acceleration 50 G, 11 ms (X, Y, Z ; All 6 axes)

1. Extended Temperature

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5. Flash Management

5.1 Intelligent Endurance Design

5.1.1 Advanced wear-leveling algorithms

The NAND flash devices are limited by a certain number of write cycles. When using a file system,

frequent file table updates is mandatory. If some area on the flash wears out faster than others, it would

significantly reduce the lifetime of the whole device, even if the erase counts of others are far from the

write cycle limit. Thus, if the write cycles can be distributed evenly across the media, the lifetime of the

media can be prolonged significantly. The scheme is achieved both via buffer management and Apacer-

specific advanced wear leveling to ensure that the lifetime of the flash media can be increased, and the

disk access performance is optimized as well.

5.1.2 S.M.A.R.T. technology

S.M.A.R.T. is an acronym for Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology, an open standard

allowing disk drives to automatically monitor their own health and report potential problems. It protects the

user from unscheduled downtime by monitoring and storing critical drive performance and calibration

parameters. Ideally, this should allow taking proactive actions to prevent impending drive failure. Apacer

SMART feature adopts the standard SMART command B0h to read data from the drive. When the Apacer

SMART Utility running on the host, it analyzes and reports the disk status to the host before the device is

in critical condition.

5.1.3 Built-in hardware ECC

The ATA-Flash Drive uses BCH Error Detection Code (EDC) and Error Correction Code (ECC) algorithms

which correct up to eight random single-bit errors for each 512-byte block of data. High performance is

fulfilled through hardware-based error detection and correction.

5.1.4 Enhanced data integrity

The properties of NAND flash memory make it ideal for applications that require high integrity while

operating in challenging environments. The integrity of data to NAND flash memory is generally

maintained through ECC algorithms and bad block management. Flash controllers can support up to 8

bits ECC capability for accuracy of data transactions, and bad block management is a preventive

mechanism from loss of data by retiring unusable media blocks and relocating the data to the other blocks,

along with the integration of advanced wear leveling algorithms, so that the lifespan of device can be

expanded.

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5.2 Intelligent Power Failure Recovery

The Low Power Detection on the controller initiates cached data saving before the power supply to the

device is too low. This feature prevents the device from crash and ensures data integrity during an

unexpected blackout. Once power was failure before cached data writing back into flash, data in the

cache will lost. The next time the power is on, the controller will check these fragmented data segment,

and, if necessary, replace them with old data kept in flash until programmed successfully.

5.3 Enhanced Security Level

5.3.1 Secure protection zone

Partitioning with static commands to logically secure data, protection zones are the solid frameworks of

file vaults. 3 different types of zones, unprotected, read-only, and restricted, are offered for effortless

administration. When the product is shipped out of Apacer, all sectors are in the unprotected zone, which

means there is no control on any data transaction. For further management control, the read-only zone

can be set to be accessed exclusively for grantees, and the restricted zone, to be as the maximum

security stockade with full administration privilege required. A maximum of 4 zones can be configured as

either restricted or read-only zone presenting concurrently. The space outside these 4 zones is

automatically in the unprotected zone if available. After the zone has been configured, the protection zone

can be de-activated or re-activated by either software methods or hardware components. Protection zone

configuration is non-volatile and it will be in effect until the next set of configuration overwrites it.

5.3.2 ATA Secure Erase

Accomplished by the Secure Erase (SE) command, which added to the open ANSI standards that control

disk drives, “ATA Secure Erase” is built into the disk drive itself and thus far less susceptible to malicious

software attacks than external software utilities. It is a positive easy-to-use data destroy command,

amounting to electronic data shredding. Executing the command causes a drive to internally completely

erase all possible user data. This command is carried out within disk drives, so no additional software is

required. Once executed, neither data nor the erase counter on the device would be recoverable, which

blurs the accuracy of device lifespan. The process to erase will not be stopped until finished while

encountering power failure, and will be continued when power is back on.

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6. Software Interface

6.1 Command Set

This section defines the software requirements and the format of the commands the host sends to the

ATA-Flash Drive (AFD). Commands are issued to the AFD by loading the required registers in the

command block with the supplied parameters, and then writing the command code to the Command

register. The manner in which a command is accepted varies.

Table 6-1: Command set (1 of 2)

Command Code FR

1

SC

2

SN

3

CY

4

DH

5

LBA

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Check-Power-Mode E5H or 98H - - - - D

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Execute-Drive-Diagnostic 90H - - - - D -

Erase Sector(s) C0H - Y Y Y Y Y

Flush-Cache E7H - - - - D -

Format Track 50H - Y

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- Y Y

8

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Identify-Drive ECH - - - - D -

Idle E3H or 97H - Y - - D -

Idle-Immediate E1H or 95H - - - - D -

Initialize-Drive-Parameters 91H - Y - - Y -

NOP 00H - - - - D -

Read-Buffer E4H - - - - D -

Read-DMA C8H or C9H - Y Y Y Y Y

Read-Multiple C4H - Y Y Y Y Y

Read-Sector(s) 20H or 21H - Y Y Y Y Y

Read-Verify-Sector(s) 40H or 41H - Y Y Y Y Y

Recalibrate 1XH - - - - D -

Request-Sense 03H - - - - D -

Security-Disable-Password F6H - - - - D -

Security-Erase-Prepare F3H - - - - D -

Security-Erase-Unit F4H - - - - D -

Security-Freeze-Lock F5H - - - - D -

Security-Set-Password F1H - - - - D -

Security-Unlock F2H - - - - D -

Seek 7XH - - Y Y Y Y

Set-Features EFH Y

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Table 6-1: Command set (2 of 2)

Command Code FR

1

SC

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SN

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CY

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DH

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LBA

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SMART B0H Y Y Y Y D

Set-Multiple-Mode C6H - Y - - D -

Set-Sleep-Mode E6H or 99H - - - - D -

Standby E2H or 96H - - - - D -

Standby-lmmediate E0H or 94H - - - - D -

Translate-Sector 87H - Y Y Y Y Y

Write-Buffer E8H - - - - D -

Write-DMA CAH or CBH - Y Y Y Y Y

Write-Multiple C5H - Y Y Y Y Y

Write-Multiple-Without-Erase CDH - Y Y Y Y Y

Write-Sector(s) 30H or 31H - Y Y Y Y Y

Write-Sector-Without-Erase 38H - Y Y Y Y Y

Write-Verify 3CH - Y Y Y Y Y

1. FR - Features register

2. SC - Sector Count register

3. SN - Sector Number register

4. CY - Cylinder registers

5. DH - Drive/Head register

6. LBA - Logical Block Address mode supported (see command descriptions for use)

7. Y - The register contains a valid parameter for this command.

8. For the Drive/Head register:

Y means both the ATA-Flash Drive and Head parameters are used

D means only the ATA-Flash Drive parameter is valid and not the Head parameter

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7. Electrical Specification

Caution: Absolute Maximum Stress Ratings – Applied conditions greater than those listed under

“Absolute Maximum Stress Ratings” may cause permanent damage to the device. This is a stress rating

only and functional operation of the device at these conditions or conditions greater than those defined in

the operational sections of this data sheet is not implied. Exposure to absolute maximum stress rating

conditions may affect device reliability.

Table 7-1: Operating voltage

Range Ambient Temperature 3.3V

Standard 0°C to 70°C

Extended Temperature -40°C to 85°C 3.135-3.465V

Table 7-2: Absolute maximum power pin stress ratings

Parameter Symbol Conditions

Input Power V

DD

-0.3V min. to 6.5V max.

Voltage on any pin except V

DD

with respect to GND V -0.5V min. to VDD + 0.5V max.

Table 7-3: Recommended system power-up timings

Symbol Parameter Typical Maximum Units

T

PU-READY1

Power-up to Ready Operation 200 1000 ms

T

PU-WRITE1

Power-up to Write Operation 200 1000 ms

1. This parameter is measured only for initial qualification and after a design or process change that could affect this parameter.

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8. Physical Characteristics

8.1 Dimension

Unit: mm

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9. Product Ordering Information

9.1 Product Code Designation

A P – FD18 A 2 0 B xxxxx R – X X X

1.8 inch ATA Flash Drive

Apacer Product Code

Controller Type

PCB Version

RoHS Compliant

Capacity

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0001G: 1GB

0002G: 2GB

0004G 4GB

0008G: 8GB

0016G: 16GB

0032G : 32GB

FW Version

Flash Type

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180D

Product Type

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Blank: Standard

W: Wild Temp

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9.2 Valid Combinations

Capacity Model Number

1GB AP-FD18A20B0001GR-KS

2GB AP-FD18A20B0002GR-KS

4GB AP-FD18A20B0004GR-KS

8GB AP-FD18A20B0008GR-KS

16GB AP-FD18A20B0016GR-KS

32GB AP-FD18A20B0032GR-KT

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Revision History

Revision Date Description Remark

1.0 01/20/2009 Official release

1.1 02/11/2009 Modified document layout

1.2 03/18/2011 Updated Performance Specification

& Product

Ordering Information

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Global Presence

Taiwan (Headquarters)

Apacer Technology Inc.

4

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Fl., 75 Xintai 5

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Rd., Sec.1

Hsichih, New Taipei City, 221

Taiwan, R.O.C.

Tel: +886-2-2698-2888

Fax: +886-2-2698-2889

amtsales@apacer.com

U.S.A.

Apacer Memory America, Inc.

386 Fairview Way, Suite102,

Milpitas, CA 95035

Tel: 1-408-586-1291

Fax: 1-408-935-9611

sa@apacerus.com

Japan

Apacer Technology Corp.

5F, Matsura Bldg., Shiba, Minato-Ku

Tokyo, 105-0014, Japan

Tel: 81-3-5419-2668

Fax: 81-3-5419-0018

jpservices@apacer.com

Europe

Apacer Technology B.V.

Aziëlaan 22,

5232 BA 's-Hertogenbosch,

The Netherlands

Tel: 31-73-645-9620

Fax: 31-73-645-9629

sales@apacer.nl

China

Apacer Electronic (Shanghai) Co., Ltd

1301, No.251,Xiaomuqiao Road, Shanghai,

200032, China

Tel: 86-21-5529-0222

Fax: 86-21-5206-6939

sales@apacer.com.cn

India

Apacer Technologies Pvt Ltd,

#1064, 1st Floor, 7th ‘A’ Main,

3rd Block Koramangala, Bangalore – 560 034

Tel: +91 80 4152 9061/62/63

Fax: +91 80 4170 0215

sales_india@apacer.com

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