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14 years ago

High Speed Embedded Memory

Hello guys, We are in process of designing a new embedded high performance data acquisition platform. Basically, we have let’s say 400 ADC channels which each channel is 16 bit wide and we need to...
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14 years ago

I did a study of storage solutions for a rugged system a few years while ago, and indeed one of the reasons why we chose the S-Tec compact flash card was the much easier to implement PATA interface.

There seems to be a sata host core (http://www.altera.com/products/ip/iup/additional_functions_iup/m-intelliprop-sata-host.html) available, apparently you'll either need a FPGA with integrated transceivers, or use an external serdes. I'm sure that if you contact IntelliProp they can give you more information about what is supported.

I'm also rather sceptical about the SATA connector under strong vibrations, it looks rather fragile. There could be a rugged version now, but there wasn't at the time I did the research.