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Corporation general policy does not recommend the use of its products in life support applications where in a failure or malfunction of the product may directly threaten life or injury. Per SanDisk Terms and Conditions of Sale, the user of SanDisk products in life support applications assumes all risk of such use and indemnifies SanDisk against all damages.
With a form factor measuring 12mm by 18mm by 1.2mm, iNAND is expected to be used in a wide variety of portable devices like mobile phones, pagers, and voice recorders.
►Standard footprint across all capacities Document Scope This document describes the key features and specifications of the SanDisk iNAND as well as the information required to interface it to a host system. Chapter 2 describes the physical and mechanical properties of iNAND, Chapter 3 contains the pins and register overview, and Chapter 4 gives a general overview of the SD protocol.
Power management for low power operation Technology Independence The 512-byte sector size of the SanDisk iNAND is the same as that in an IDE magnetic disk drive. To write or read a sector (or multiple sectors), the host software simply issues a read or write command to the card.
This is completely transparent to the host and does not consume any user data space. The soft error rate specification for iNAND is much better than the magnetic disk drive specification. In the extremely rare case that a read error does occur, iNAND has innovative algorithms to recover the data.
1.11 SPI Mode The SPI Mode is a secondary communication protocol for iNAND devices. This mode is a subset of the SD Protocol, designed to communicate with an SPI channel, commonly found in Motorola and other vendors’ microcontrollers. Table 1-1 contains names and descriptions of SPI Mode functions.
Value Measurement Average Sleep Read Write System Performance All performance values for iNAND in Table 2-2 were measured using the following conditions: • Voltage range 2.7 V to 3.6 V • Temperature -25° C to 85° C • Independent of the iNAND clock frequency...
Revision 3.1 SanDisk iNAND Product Manual Physical Specifications The SanDisk iNAND is a 56-pin, thin fine-pitched ball grid array (BGA). See Figure 2-1 (56-pin) for physical specifications and dimensions. See Figure 2-2 for a top view of the pin definitions.
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Chapter 2 – Product Specifications Revision 3.1 SanDisk iNAND Product Manual Table 2-4 iNAND Package Specifications (18 x 12mm Package) Dimension in millimeters Dimension in inches Symbol Minimum Nominal Maximum Minimum Nominal Maximum 1.20 or 1.40 0.047 0.30 0.35 0.38 0.012...
Chapter 2 – Product Specifications Revision 3.1 SanDisk iNAND Product Manual Capacity Specifications Table 2-5 Model Capacity Summary* Model No. Capacity SDINB1-256 256 MB SDINB1-512 512 MB SDINB1-1024 1024 MB SDINB1-2048 2048 MB SDINB1-4096 4096 MB * 1 megabyte (MB) = 1 million bytes; 1 gigabyte (GB) = 1 billion bytes. Some of the listed capacity is used for formatting and other functions, and thus is not available for data storage.
SEL_B Defines I/F Connect to FCAP Grounded filter capacitor SanDisk iNAND contains a set of information registers. Register descriptions and SDA references are provided in Section 5.0 of the SDA Physical Layer Specification, Version 2.00. Table 3-2 iNAND Register Overview...
Revision 3.1 SanDisk iNAND Product Manual Electrical Interface The power scheme of SanDisk iNAND is handled locally in each card and in the bus master. Refer to Section 6.4 of the SDA Physical Layer Specification, Version 2.00. 3.3.1 Power Up Refer to Section 6.4.1 of the SDA Physical Layer Specification, Version 2.00.
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Chapter 3 – iNAND Interface Description Revision 3.1 SanDisk iNAND Product Manual Table 3-3 CID Register Definitions Name Type Width CID Value Comments Manufacturer ID Binary 0x03 Manufacturer IDs are controlled and (MID) assigned by the SD-3C, LLC OEM/Application ID...
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The Card Specific Data (CSD) Register configuration information is required to access iNAND data. The CSD defines the data format, error correction type, maximum data access time, etc. The field structures of the CSD Register vary depending on the physical specifications and card capacity.
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Chapter 3 – iNAND Interface Description Revision 3.1 SanDisk iNAND Product Manual Field CSD Value Description VDD_W_ CURR_MIN 100 mA Max. write current @VDD min. VDD_W_ CURR_MAX 80 mA Max. write current @VDD max. C_SIZE_ MULT 2G=2048 Device size multiplier...
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Chapter 3 – iNAND Interface Description Revision 3.1 SanDisk iNAND Product Manual Refer to Section 5.3.3, Table 5-16 of the SDA Physical Layer Specification, Version 2.00 for more detailed information. Table 3-6 CSD Register (CSD Version 2.0) Field CSD Value...
Layer Specification, Version 2.00. for more details. Data Interchange Format and Card Sizes In general, a file system provides structure for iNAND data. The SD Card File System Specification, published by the SD Association, describes the file format system implemented in the SanDisk iNAND.
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Chapter 3 – iNAND Interface Description Revision 3.1 SanDisk iNAND Product Manual Table 3-7 User Area DOS Image Parameters Capacity* Total Number of Total Partition User Data User Data LBAs Partition Sectors Sectors Bytes System Area Sectors 4 GB 8,027,136...
Specification, Version 2.00. 4.3.3 Clock Control The host can use the bus clock signal in iNAND to switch them to energy saving mode or to control data flow on the bus. See Section 4.4 of the SDA Physical Layer Specification, Version 2.00.
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Cyclic Redundancy Codes The Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) protects against transmission errors that may occur on the iNAND bus. Detailed information and examples for CRC7 and CRC16 are provided in Section 4.5 of the SDA Physical Layer Specification, Version 2.00.
Appendix A Capacitor Specifications SanDisk iNAND Operation In order for iNAND to operate at 3V, an external capacitor must be added to the FCAP (G8) pin and grounded to VSS. The capacitor’s specifications and its placement instructions are detailed below.
Appendix B –Ordering Information Revision 3.1 SanDisk iNAND Product Manual Appendix B Ordering Information iNAND To order SanDisk products directly from SanDisk, call (408) 801-1000. Part Number Block Size SDINB1-256 256 MB SDINB1-512 512 MB SDINB1-1024 1024 MB SDINB1-2048 2048 MB...
III. WHAT THIS WARRANTY COVERS For products found to be defective within one year of purchase, SanDisk will have the option of repairing or replacing the defective product, if the following conditions are met: A. A warranty registration card for each defective product was submitted and is on file at SanDisk.
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SanDisk may, at its discretion, ship repaired or rebuilt products identified in the same way as new products, provided such cards meet or exceed the same published specifications as new products.