SanDisk 20-10-00038, Extreme III 1.1 General Description

CHAPTER 1 Introduction

1.1 General Description

SanDisk CompactFlash® Memory Card products provide high capacity solid-state flash

memory that electrically complies with the Personal Computer Memory Card International

Association ATA (PC Card ATA) standard. (In Japan, the applicable standards group is

JEIDA.) The CompactFlash Memory Card Series also supports a True IDE Mode that is

electrically compatible with an IDE disk drive. The original CF form factor card can be used in

any system that has a CF slot, and with a Type II PCMCIA adapter can be used in any system

that has a PCMCIA Type II or Type III socket.

CompactFlash Memory cards use SanDisk Flash memory, which was designed by SanDisk

specifically for use in mass storage applications. In addition to the mass storage-specific flash

memory chips, CompactFlash Memory cards include an on-card intelligent controller that

provides a high level interface to the host computer. This interface allows a host computer to

issue commands to the memory card to read or write blocks of memory. The host addresses the

card in 512 byte sectors. Each sector is protected by a powerful Error Correcting Code (ECC).

The on-card intelligent controller in the CompactFlash Memory Card manages interface

protocols, data storage and retrieval as well as ECC, defect handling and diagnostics, power

management and clock control. Once the card has been configured by the host, it appears to the

host as a standard ATA (IDE) disk drive. Additional ATA commands have been provided to

enhance system performance.

The host system can support as many cards as there are CompactFlash and PCMCIA Type II or

III card slots. The original form factor CompactFlash Memory cards require a PCMCIA Type

II Adapter to be used in a PCMCIA Type II or Type III socket.

Figure 1-1 SanDisk CompactFlash Card Block Diagram

Host

Interface Flash

Memory

SanDisk

Single Chip

Controller Control

Data In/Out

SanDisk CompactFlash

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Contents

Main SanDisk CompactFlash Memory Card OEM Product Manual Page Page Page Table of Content s Page 1.1 General Description 1.2 Features 1.3 Scope 1.4 CompactFlash Standard 1.5 PCMCIA Standard 1.6 Related Documentation 1.7 Functional Description Page Page Page 2.1 System Environmental Specifications 2.2 System Power Requirements Page 2.3 System Performance 2.4 System Reliability 2.5 Physical Specifications Page Page 3.1 Physical Description True IDE Mode Pin Assigments are contained in Table 3-3. Table 3-3 True IDE Mode Pin Assignments 3.2 Electrical Description Page Page Page Page 3.3 Electrical Specification Table 3-8 Output Drive Characteristics Figure 3-1 Power Up/Power Down Timing for Systems supporting RESET Figure 3-2 Power Up/Power Down Timing for Systems not supporting RESET Table 3-10 Common Memory Read Timing Specification signal. Table 3-11 Common and Attribute Memory Write Timing Specification signal. Table 3-12 Attribute Memory Read Timing Specification 3.3.7 Memory Timing Diagrams Figure 3-3 Common and Attribute Memory Read Timing Diagram Figure 3-4 Common and Attribute Memory Write Timing Diagram 3.3.8 I/O Read (Input) Timing Specification Figure 3-5 I/O Read Timing Diagram Table 3-13 contains the read input timing specifications. Table 3-13 I/O Read (Input) Timing Specification 3.3.9 I/O Write (Output) Timing Specification Figure 3-6 I/O Write Timing Diagram Figure 3-7 Register Transfer to/from Device Table 3-15 Register Transfer to/from Device The PIO data transfer parameters are defined in Table 3-16. signal. Table 3-16 PIO Data Transfer to/from Device 3.4 Card Configuration SanDisk CompactFlash Card OEM Product Manual Interface Description 2007 SanDisk Corporation 3-21 Rev. 12.0, 02/07 NOTE:The location of the card configuration registers should always be Interface Description SanDisk CompactFlash Card OEM Product Manual 02/07, Rev. 12.0 3-22 2007 SanDisk Corporation between consecutive cycle operaitons. Table 3-19 Attribute Memory Function Table 3-20 Card Configurations Card Configuration and Status Register (cont) 3.5 I/O Transfer Function 3.6 True IDE Mode I/O Transfer Function 4.1 I/O Primary and Secondary Address Configurations 4.2 Contiguous I/O Mapped Addressing 4.3 Memory Mapped Addressing 4.4 True IDE Mode Addressing 4.5 ATA Registers Page Page Page Page Card (Drive) Address Register (cont) Page 5.1 ATA Command Set Table 5-1 Primary and Secondary I/O Decoding Page Page Page Table 5-8 Identify Device Information Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page 5.2 Error Posting Page Attribute Offset Data 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 Content Description CIS 2007 SanDisk Corporation 6-1 Rev. 12.0, 02/07 Function CIS Description SanDisk CompactFlash Card OEM Product Manual 02/07, Rev. 12.0 6-2 2007 SanDisk Corporation SanDisk CompactFlash Card OEM Product Manual CIS Description Attribute Offset Data 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 Content Description CIS 2007 SanDisk Corporation 6-3 Rev. 12.0, 02/07 Function CIS Description SanDisk CompactFlash Card OEM Product Manual Attribute Offset Data 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 Content Description CIS 02/07, Rev. 12.0 6-4 2007 SanDisk Corporation Function SanDisk CompactFlash Card OEM Product Manual CIS Description Attribute Offset Data 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 Content Description CIS 2007 SanDisk Corporation 6-5 Rev. 12.0, 02/07 Function Configuration Index 0 CIS Description SanDisk CompactFlash Card OEM Product Manual Attribute Offset Data 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0 Content Description CIS 02/07, Rev. 12.0 6-6 2007 SanDisk Corporation Function Interface Type SanDisk CompactFlash Card OEM Product Manual CIS Description 2007 SanDisk Corporation 6-7 Rev. 12.0, 02/07 CIS Description SanDisk CompactFlash Card OEM Product Manual 02/07, Rev. 12.0 6-8 2007 SanDisk Corporation SanDisk CompactFlash Card OEM Product Manual CIS Description 2007 SanDisk Corporation 6-9 Rev. 12.0, 02/07 CIS Description SanDisk CompactFlash Card OEM Product Manual 02/07, Rev. 12.0 6-10 2007 SanDisk Corporation SanDisk CompactFlash Card OEM Product Manual CIS Description 2007 SanDisk Corporation 6-11 Rev. 12.0, 02/07 CIS Description SanDisk CompactFlash Card OEM Product Manual 02/07, Rev. 12.0 6-12 2007 SanDisk Corporation SanDisk CompactFlash Card OEM Product Manual CIS Description 2007 SanDisk Corporation 6-13 Rev. 12.0, 02/07 CIS Description SanDisk CompactFlash Card OEM Product Manual 02/07, Rev. 12.0 6-14 2007 SanDisk Corporation SanDisk CompactFlash Card OEM Product Manual CIS Description 2007 SanDisk Corporation 6-15 Rev. 12.0, 02/07 CIS Description SanDisk CompactFlash Card OEM Product Manual 02/07, Rev. 12.0 6-16 2007 SanDisk Corporation SanDisk CompactFlash Card OEM Product Manual CIS Description 2007 SanDisk Corporation 6-17 Rev. 12.0, 02/07 Page Appendix A Ordering Information A.1 SanDisk CompactFlash Memory Card 2007 SanDisk Corporation A-1 Rev. 12.0, 02/07 To order SanDisk products directly from SanDisk, call (408) 801-1000. Page Page Page C.1 SanDisk Corporation Policy