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SanDisk® 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.
SD Card. SD card specifications are now maintained, controlled and assigned by the SD-3C, LLC. While a formal SD-ROM card specification does not yet exist, the SanDisk SD ROM Card has been designed to be compatible with most SD host devices today.
Version 2.00, for details. 2.2 SPI Mode The SPI Mode is a secondary communication protocol for cards in the SanDisk SD-ROM Cards. This interface mode is an alternate to the SD protocol and is designed to communicate with an SPI channel, commonly found in Motorola and other vendors' microcontrollers. More information about SPI Mode can be found in Section 7 of the SDA Physical Layer Specification, Version 2.00.
2.7 Card State Transitions SanDisk SD-ROM Cards operate the same as standard SD cards, where the state transition is dependent on the received command along with responses sent on the command line. The transitions are defined in Section 4.8 of the SDA Physical Layer Specification, Version 2.00 In Card Identification Mode, the host operates the card at a slower frequency as it identifies and initializes the card.
The SD specifications define a set of eight registers within the card interface. However, the DSR Register is optional and is not used in the SanDisk SD Card Product Family. For specific information about all registers, refer to Section 5 of the SDA Physical Layer Specification, Version 2.00.
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It is programmed during card content programming and cannot be changed by card hosts. The following table lists the default configuration of the CID register for SanDisk SD-ROM Cards. More information can be found in Section 5.2 of the SDA Physical Layer Specification, Version 2.00.
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CRC7 3.3.3 SD Card Configuration Register The SD Card Configuration Register (SCR) provides information about special features in the SanDisk SD Card products. For more information, refer to Section 5.6 in the SDA Physical Layer Specification, Version 2.00. Comments CSD structure Reserved Data read access time –...
Section 5.1 of the SDA Physical Layer Specification, Version 2.00 for more information. 3.4 Bus Topology The family of SanDisk SD products supports two communication protocols: SD and SPI. For more details, refer to Section 3.5 of the SDA Physical Layer Specification, Version 2.00. Section 6 of the specification contains a bus circuitry diagram for reference.
Layer Specification, Version 2.00. 3.5 Electrical Interface The power scheme of SanDisk SD products 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. 3.5.1 Power Up Refer to Section 6.4.1 of the SDA Physical Layer Specification, Version 2.00, for information...