Compact Flash Cards

l These cards are the solid-state equivalents of hard disks, they present an identical electrical interface and work from a single +5V power supply.

l Use a TDS2020CFA converter to mount Compact flash cards on a TDS2020CM2 adapter and a CF-PCA adapter to read Compact flash cards in a notebook PCMCIA slot.

l Because these cards are electrically like hard disks (handling data in minimum chunks of 512-byte sectors), a cache RAM is needed in the 32-pin socket on the TDS2020F, use RAM512K or RAM128K.

l More rugged then rotating memory and fill the gap in size between RAM and disk. The makers claim that these cards typically have 500,000 read/write cycles.

l Apart from data collection, Compact Flash cards can be used for storage of speech, text, graphics or pictures.

Picture for illustrative purposes only, alternative makes may be supplied.