Industrial grade CompactFlash (CF) has been a storage workhorse for embedded systems since the turn of the century, and it appears as though this tried and true storage platform still has a long life ahead.

At times it must seem that processors, chipsets, and solid-state storage devices are not just evolving, but shape shifting.

As the compute paradigm migrates from desktops and laptops to mobile devices and cloud storage, developers have been forced to judge storage solutions beyond the simple dollar per gigabyte (GB) metric to more sophisticated yardsticks based on specific applications and their associated types.

The purpose of coding data is to efficiently transport it through a particular medium. The medium may be circuit board traces, ribbon cable, twisted pair copper, copper coax, fiber optic or air.

With the rise in worldwide compliance to more stringent data protection laws and regulations, businesses are grasping the importance of properly securing their data to avoid high penalties and cost of data loss.

NAND flash-based SSDs and memory cards continue to be the dominant storage media for most industrial-embedded systems.

The embedded storage market is full of various solutions touted as "industrial grade" by their suppliers.

Along with compactness, higher functionality and density, as well as reliability, non-volatility, faster access speed, and lighter weight make AMC with Flash a significant new technology.

Memory designers can mitigate heat and design better memory subsystems using a range of simple but powerful thermal concepts.

Virtium TuffDrive Parallel ATA (PATA) solid state drives (SSDs) are direct replacements for legacy PATA hard disk drives (HDDs) found in industrial embedded designs, as well as, laptops and desktop computers.

Employing NAND flash-based storage has become a mainstay in most of today's industrial embedded applications.

For embedded systems designers, selecting the optimal solid state drive (SSD) form factor has never been more difficult.

Virtium's focus is to provide high-reliability storage products to OEMs making infrastructure and communications equipment for the Internet of Things.