Why Choose an Industrial Memory Card?
Technology has progressively shown improvement year after year, and this ongoing evolution has required new development in data storage solutions, especially in the industrial sector. Therefore, it’s necessary that the right decisions are made when picking the appropriate industrial memory card. There are several form factors of industrial memory cards availab
Is it Industrial Compact Flash Card or Industrial CompactFlash Card?
Industrial CompactFlash Cards are typically used within various industrial applications where a robust durability and reliability are expected. Taking this into consideration, many manufacturers require high-speed industrial CF cards that can reliably perform for aerospace, communications/networking, gaming, power/energy, mass d
Technical Success Stories: Is the Newest Version the Best? Cost Reduction Discovery for Industrial SD Cards
“Our application needs the very latest, fastest SD technology, and our budget is less than $15, what are our options?”– True Customer Stories The SD card standard is the most popular memory card in the world. As such, there is a lot of data on the speed classes, interface, and technology used to build this […]
Industrial Flash Storage for Transportation Applications
What Are Top Reasons for Industrial Flash Storage in Transportation Applications? Many modes of transportation including motor vehicles, trains, and aircraft use industrial flash storage for critical data storage functions. Due to the varying nature of these transportation methods, technology is designed to execute specific roles and address special concerns. H
Real Time Embedded & Operating Systems (RTOS)
Real Time Embedded Systems generally consist of Hardware and Software (More often referred to as Firmware). These systems include at a minimum: Hardware: CPU – Various types such as RISC or CISC, single core or multi-core, fully integrated ASIC type controllers. Executes a set of instructions in a program (process or application) created by the […]
Technical Success Stories: SMART Triggers
“Data loss on our product is very expensive, is there a way to predict the end of a card lifespan before it happens?”– True Customer Stories This story starts with a painful fact, all embedded storage no matter how well optimized for the usage model, at some point will come to the end of […]
Industrial CompactFlash Cards for Aerospace
Introduction Industrial CompactFlash cards have been used for approximately two decades in various aerospace applications requiring an extremely reliable data storage device. These flash cards were originally designed to offer a precise flash storage solution for both industrial and consumer applications, but have been ruggedized and customized specifically for the aer
What Are the Top Differences Between Industrial Grade and Consumer Grade Flash Storage?
Perhaps your organization has just decided that a flash storage device is necessary for your new industrial application prototype, or you just need a perfect replacement to the flash storage that’s been used in an industrial host. Whichever the case, there are many flash storage options in the market to choose from, with all of […]
Why Delkin Devices Industrial Flash Storage Solutions Enable a Better Healthcare Industry
Healthcare files are big, meaning that simple x-rays are about 8 MB each. When you’re talking about one picture for one patient, this might not seem like a lot, but when you consider that a normal brain MRI involves about 230 images, you’re quickly looking at several gigabytes of data per patient. Across a healthcare […]
Technical Success Stories: Delkin mSATA Parts Allow Longer Application Life Cycle
“Our host uses mSATA, and has for years. We were in trouble when our supplier notified us our part had been discontinued”– True Customer Stories Most new memory standards and form factors used in embedded products start out as solutions for consumer driven markets. mSATA was designed to be used in tablets, laptops and [&h
True Customer Stories: Industrial vs. Consumer Storage Solutions
“We were not aware that Consumer SSDs are not a good “drop in” for our industrial device”– True Customer Stories Consumer storage products are advertised extensively to the point that those brands are often recognized first and foremost when considering a storage device for an Industrial, embedded solution. There are many reasons why this might [
Technical Success Stories: Flash Endurance and SMART Commands
“Our product sells for under $200, we could not afford an expensive card, we just assumed we had to have some failures”– Technical Success Stories You would not put jet fuel in your moped, so an inexpensive product would not normally come with an expensive SLC based card. No one is going to pay […]
Delkin in Space
Delkin Devices Industrial SD Cards Rugged Enough for Outer Space Delkin Devices has been the source of industrial SD cards for a San Francisco based company that launches its products into orbit aboard satellites. Pumpkin Inc., a company that manufactures products that have opened new doors in the space industry since 2000, has trusted the […]
True Customer Stories: Suddenly New CF Cards
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]True Customer Stories: Solutions from the Desks of Delkin Customer Engineering “We have been using the same card from the same supplier for 2 years, and now suddenly this batch is different!” Background: A new customer called us to ask about our CF cards. They told a story about buying Consumer grade CF cards of [&hell
3D NAND Flash Application Considerations
3D NAND flash is an advanced architectural development in flash storage that enables memory cells to be stacked vertically in multiple layers. This is a more sophisticated design and is a great solution for high density mass storage. By building multiple layers, larger geometries can be used to deliver higher reliability and higher density. It […]
True Customer Stories: Customization of Card Fixed Data Failure
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]True Customer Stories: Solutions from the Desks of Delkin Customer Engineering “Your cards are failing on our new high volume duplicators, and some other brands work fine.” Background: A regular customer that had been buying Delkin SD cards for years, was experiencing a big growth in sales, and subsequently bought som
True Customer Stories: We Want the Least Expensive SD Card Available
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]True Customer Stories: Solutions from the Desks of Delkin Customer Engineering “We want the least expensive SD card available, our application is not write intensive.” Background: As often happens in the flash business, Delkin was asked to bid on a quantity of SD cards for a new customer. Despite early discovery effo
Market Analysis: Trends in the NAND Flash Memory Market
Unprecedented conditions in the NAND market are causing prices to rise and lead times to stretch, as increased demand combines with supply issues. At this point, no significant relief is expected before the end of 2017. There are multiple factors at play leading to worldwide dramatic growth in flash demand. New generations of mobile devices […]
True Customer Stories: Solutions from the Desks of Delkin Customer Engineering
[vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1484013236719{margin-right: 5% !important;margin-left: 5% !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text]“Our flagship product is bricking across our entire customer base, help!” A manufacturer of hand held devices called us in a panic one day over an SD card failure that was causing their fl
Local Poway Company, Delkin Devices, Named Top ‘Toys for Tots’ Fundraiser Group in San Diego County for 2016
[vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1484013236719{margin-right: 5% !important;margin-left: 5% !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text]Poway, CA. December 22nd, 2016 – Local Poway manufacturer, Delkin Devices, was named the top fundraiser for the Toys for Tots Foundation in San Diego for 2016, with over thirty-thousand dollars and more than fifteen-hundred toys collected and donated during their event at the Ramona Airport this December.