I was reading bunnie’s recent post on the manufacturing techniques used in USB flash-drives… bare die manipulated by hand with a stick! Today I found an old (128MB!) SD card from my Palm Tungsten-T. Circa 2005 if I remember rightly. Very different technology, actual chips soldered down on the board. And it’s clear that the… Continue reading Flash memory through the ages
Month: May 2013
More ARM FPGA
A while ago I compared Altera and Xilinx’s ARM-based FPGA combos. More information is now available publicly, so let’s see what we know now… One thing that’s hard to miss is that Altera are making a big thing of their features to support applications with more taxing reliability and safety requirements. Altera’s external DRAM interface… Continue reading More ARM FPGA