Hyperstone SD/eMMC, CF/PATA, SATA & USB Flash Controller

Company information
- Founded: 1990
- HQ: Konstanz
- Fabless
Hyperstone, based in Konstanz (Germany), is a fabless semiconductor and microprocessor design company. Hyperstone’s products include industrial grade microcontrollers for Serial-ATA and Parallel-ATA Solid State Disks (SSD), Disk-on-Module (DoM), Disk-on-Board (DoB), embedded Flash solutions such as eMMC, and Flash cards such as CF, SD & microSD. USB controllers complete the portfolio.
Memory Solutions based on Hyperstone's technology are used in different markets, like telecom, industrial automation, medical, automotive, security & identification, gaming machines, vending machines and smart metering.
- Extraordinary power-fail protection
- Turnkey solution including firmware, manufacturing kit, test and development hardware, as well as reference schematics
- Continuously updated flash memory chip support and long term availability
- Custom features can be implemented with simple firmware upgrades
- ISO7816 Interface for smartcard applications
- ISO7816 Pins also can be used as GPIO for customer specific applications
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Product overview
Type | Bus I/F | Flash | read/write to host [max] | channel | Spec | Temp. | ECC | Packages |
F9 | CF / PATA |
All |
120 MB/s / 120 MB/s |
2 | PC-Card 8.0 CF 6.1 compatible ATA-7 compatible |
-40° to 85°C |
up to 96 bit |
TQFP-128 |
X1 | SATA III |
All |
550 MB/s / 500 MB/s |
2 | SATA 3.3 CFast 2.0 ATA-8 |
-40° to 85°C |
FlashXE© |
TFBGA-124 |
U8B | USB 2.0 |
All |
35 MB/s / 35 MB/s |
1 | USB 2.0 |
-40° to 85°C |
up to 96 bit |
QFN-76 |
U9 | USB 3.1 Gen. 1 |
All |
200 MB/s / 150 MB/s |
2 | USB 3.1 Gen1 |
-40° to 85°C |
up to 96 bit |
BGA-124 |
General features
- Controller & CPU
- High performance 32-Bit Hyperstone RISC microprocessor
- Large internal RAM provides firmware flexibility
- Power-fail protection
- Capacitor buffered power down possible
- Supply voltage 3.3V
- On-chip voltage regulator for 1.8V flash memory (depending on controller type)
- S.M.A.R.T. monitoring
- Flash management including LBA to PBA mapping
- Bad block management
- Static, dynamic and global wear leveling
- On-the-fly garbage collection
- Read disturb management, dynamic data refresh to maximize data retention and refresh data subject to read disturbance
- Management of sudden power-fails
- Interleaving, cache and multi-plane programming
- Firmware is stored redundantly for recovery and refresh