1.8-Inch ZIF Solid State Drive

RunCore Pro IV 1.8” ZIF PATA

(For Mac Air Rev.A)

Solid State Disk

Product Manual

Version 1.2

JUL 2010

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Revision History Version #Number Description Date

Version 1.0 Original Release Oct 2009 Version 1.1 Addition of some items at Part Numbering

Scheme June 2010

Version 1.2 Removing the warranty years in specification table, customer needs to refer about warranty

in the Warranty Policy document for more details.

July 2010

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Table of Contents I. General Description .................................................................................................... 4

1. Product Image ..................................................................................................... 4

2. Typical Applications ........................................................................................... 4

II. Key Features .............................................................................................................. 5

1. Advance Wear-Levelling Algorithm ................................................................... 5

2. S.M.A.R.T. Function ........................................................................................... 5

3. Built-in Hardware ECC ....................................................................................... 5

III. Specifications ........................................................................................................... 6

1. Specification Summary ....................................................................................... 6

2. Device Certifications .......................................................................................... 6

3. Electrical Specifications ...................................................................................... 7

3.1 Supply Voltage ........................................................................................... 7

4. R/W Performance ................................................................................................ 7

IV. Block Diagram ......................................................................................................... 8

V. Interface ..................................................................................................................... 9

1. Support mode ...................................................................................................... 9

2. Pin Assignment and Description ......................................................................... 9

VI. Physical Dimensions .............................................................................................. 11

VII. Command Sets ...................................................................................................... 12

1. ATA Commands ................................................................................................ 12

2. SMART Subcommand Sets .............................................................................. 14

VIII. Part Numbering Scheme ..................................................................................... 15

IX. Related Documentation ......................................................................................... 15

X. Contact Us ............................................................................................................... 15

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I. General Description

RunCore Pro IV 1.8" ZIF SSD is designed for laptop, handheld PC. The product adopts advanced flash controller and NAND flash, contains the cache size of up to 64MB with a higher performance in read/write rate than mechanism hard drive. Furthermore, its characteristics of low power consumption and anti-vibration are notable.

1.8" ZIF SSD as standard PATA driver, which supports all major operating systems such as Windows9X/Me/NT/XP/CE/Vista/Windows7, Mac, Linux and Unix, Solaris, Vxworks. With no moving parts and seek time, 1.8" ZIF SSD does not need to spin up into action or to seek files in the way that traditional hard disk drives do - enabling it to work much faster. It supports capacity from 32GB to 128GB with maximum transfer rate as high as 82MB/s. Therefore, it is an ideal storage device for commercial users’ mobile PC.

1. Product Image

2. Typical Applications

Apple MacBook Air Revision A

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II. Key Features (Flash Management)

1. Advance Wear-Leveling Algorithm The NAND flash devices are limited by a certain number of write cycles. When using a file

system, frequent file table updates is mandatory. If some area on the flash wears out

faster than others, it would significantly reduce the lifetime of the whole device, even if the

erase counts of others are far from the write cycle limit. Thus, if the write cycles can be

distributed evenly across the media, the lifetime of the media can be prolonged

significantly. The scheme is achieved both via buffer management and specific advanced

wear leveling to ensure that the lifetime of the flash media can be increased, and the disk

access performance is optimized as well.

2. S.M.A.R.T Function

S.M.A.R.T. is an acronym for Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology, an

open standard allowing disk drives to automatically monitor their own health and report

potential problems. It protects the user from unscheduled downtime by monitoring and

storing critical drive performance and calibration parameters. Ideally, this should allow

taking proactive actions to prevent impending drive failure. SMART feature adopts the

standard SMART command B0h to read data from the drive. When the SMART Utility

running on the host, it analyzes and reports the disk status to the host before the device is

in critical condition.

3. Built-in Hardware ECC

The ATA-Disk Module uses BCH Error Detection Code (EDC) and Error Correction Code

(ECC) algorithms which correct up to eight random single-bit errors for each 512-byte

block of data. High performance is fulfilled through hardware-based error detection and

correction.

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III. Specifications

1. Specification Summary

Table 1 1.8〞ZIF SSD Specification

Performance, power consumption and weight vary with different capacity of products.

2. Device Certifications Table 2 Certifications

Certification/Compliance Description

CE Compliant

Indicate conformity with the essential health and safety

requirements set out in European. Directives Low Voltage

Directive and EMC directive.

Physical

Specifications

Interface ZIF 40pin

Dimension 71mm×54mm×5mm

Capacity 32GB～128GB

Cache 64 MB

Flash Media MLC-NAND Flash

Performance

Sequential Read Up to 82 MB/s

Sequential Write Up to 70 MB/s

4KB Random Read 15 MB/s

4KB Random Write 7 MB/s

Electrical

Specification

Input Voltage 3.3V ± 5%

Power

Consumption

Idle = < 0.5 W

Typical = < 1.6 W (4KB Random write)

Reliability

and

Stability

Write endurance: >80years@10GB write/day（32GB）

Read endurance: unlimited

MTBF: >1,000,000 Hours

Operating Temperature Commercial( 0℃～+70℃)

Weight < 40g

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FCC Certified Federal Communications Commission Certified

RoHS Compliant Restriction of Hazardous Substance Directive

3. Electrical Requirements

3.1 Supply Voltage

Overrun the “Maximum Value” listed below will cause permanent damage to the device.

Table 3 Supply Voltage

Symbol Description Min. Value Max. Value Unit

TS Storage Temperature -55 140 °C

VCC Supply Power 3.0 3.6 V

4. R/W Performance

Table 4 Read/Write Performance① ATTO Disk Bench

Capacity Read (MB/s) Write (MB/s) 32GB 82 69 64GB 82 70

128GB 82 70

① : Flash media type: MLC Measurement can be varied by its host system.

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IV. Block Diagram

Figure 1 1.8〞ZIF SSD Block Diagram

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V. Interface

1 Support mode

The SSD interface complies with ATA-2/ATA-3/ATA-4/ATA-5/ATA-6/ATA-7 and supports the following data transfer mode.

1．Ultra DMA mode: 0、1、2、3、4、5、6

2．DMA mode: 0、1、2

3．PIO mode: 0、1、2、3、4

2. Pin Assignment and Description

The following diagram identifies the connector of RCP-IV-Z18XX-C.

Figure 2 Connector Top Side

Table 5 1.8〞ZIF SSD Pin Assignment and Description

Pin Signal Description

1 Reserved -

2 Reserved -

3 RESET- Hard Reset

4 Ground Ground

5 DD07 Data bus bit 7

6 DD08 Data bus bit 8

7 DD06 Data bus bit 6

8 DD09 Data bus bit 9

9 DD05 Data bus bit 5

10 DD10 Data bus bit 10

11 DD04 Data bus bit 4

12 DD11 Data bus bit 11

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13 DD03 Data bus bit 3

14 DD12 Data bus bit 12

15 DD02 Data bus bit 2

16 DD13 Data bus bit 13

17 DD01 Data bus bit 1

18 DD14 Data bus bit 14

19 DD00 Data bus bit 0

20 DD15 Data bus bit 15

21 Ground Ground

22 DMARQ DMA request

23 Ground Ground

24 DIOW I/O Write, used to write device registers or the

data port stop during Ultra DMA burst

25 DIOR

I/O Read, used to read device registers or the

data port flow control during Ultra DMA data-in

bust and data-out strobe signal for Ultra DMA

data-out burst

26 Ground Ground

27 IORDY

I/O channel ready during register access flow

control during Ultra DMA data-out burst data-in

strobe signal for Ultra DMA data-in-burst

28 Ground Ground

29 DMACK- DMA Acknowledge

30 INTRQ Interrupt Request

31 DA01 Address bus bit 1

32 PDIAG -

33 DA00 Address bus bit 0

34 DA02 Address bus bit 2

35 CS0- Chip Select 0

36 CS1- Chip Select 1

37 DASP- Used to drive external LED when drive is

accessed

38 3.3V Voltage input

39 3.3V Voltage input

40 Reserved -

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VI. Physical Dimensions

Figure 3 1.8〞ZIF SSD Physical Dimension

Table 6 1.8〞ZIF SSD Physical Dimension

Dimension Millimeter Inch A1 71±0.25 2.795±0.001 A2 54±0.25 2.126±0.001 A3 5±0.25 0.197±0.001 A4 3(min) 0.118±0.001 A5 3(max） 0.118±0.001

A6 1.24 0.049

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VII. Command Sets

1. ATA Commands

The RunCore 1.8＂ZIF SSD supports all the mandatory ATA commands defined in the ATA/ATAPI-7 specification.

Table 7 Supported ATA Command Lists

Command Name Command Code (Hex) Command Name

CommandCode (Hex)

CHECK POWER MODE E5h or 98h Disable write cache EFh/82h

DEVICE CONFIGURATION

- Set transfer mode EFh/03h

DEVICE CONFIGURATION

B1h/C1h Enable DMA Setup FIS

Auto-Activate optimization EFh/10h/02h

DEVICE CONFIGURATION

B1h/C2h Disable DMA Setup FIS

Auto-Activate optimization EFh/90h/02h

DEVICE CONFIGURATION

B1h/C0h Enable Device-initiated

interface power state transitions EFh/10h/03h

DEVICE CONFIGURATION SET

B1h/C3h Disable Device-initiated

interface power state transitions EFh/10h/03h

DOW NLOAD MICROCODE

92h SET MAX -

EXECUTE DEVICE DIAGNOSTIC

90h SET MAX ADDRESS F9h/na

FLUSH CACHE E7h SET MAX FREEZE LOCK F9h/04h

FLUSH CACHE EXT EAh SET MAX LOCK F9h/02h

IDENTIFY DEVICE ECh SET MAX SET PASSWORD F9h/01h

IDLE E3h or 97h SET MAX UNLOCK F9h/03h

IDLE IMMEDIATE E1h or 95h SET MAX ADDRESS EXT 37h

INITIALIZE DEVICE PARAMETERS

91h SET MULTIPLE MODE C6h

NOP 00h/00h SLEEP E6h or 99h

READ BUFFER E4h SMART -

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READ DMA C8h SMART DISABLE

OPERATIONS B0h/D9h

READ DMA EXT 25h SMART ENABLE

OPERATIONS B0h/D8h

READ FPDMA QUEUED

60h SMART ENABLE/DISABLE ATTRIBUTE AUTOSAVE

B0h/D2h

READ LOG EXT 2Fh SMART ENABLE/DISABLE

AUTOMATIC OFF-LINE B0h/DBh

READ MULTIPLE C4h SMART EXECUTE OFF-LINE

IMMIDIATE B0h/D4h

READ MULTIPLE EXT 29h SMART READ DATA B0h/D0h

READ NATIVE MAX ADDRESS

F8h SMART READ LOG B0h/D5h

READ NATIVE MAX ADDRESS EXT

27h SMART RETURN STATUS B0h/DAh

READ SECTOR(S) 20h SMART SAVE ATTRIBUTE

VALUES B0h/D3h

READ SECTOR(S) EXT 24h SMART W RITE LOG B0h/D6h

READ VERIFY SECTOR(S)

40h STANDBY E2h or 96h

READ VERIFY SECTOR(S) EXT

42h STANDBY IMMEDIATE E0h or 94h

SECURITY DISABLE PASSWORD

F6h WRITE BUFFER E8h

SECURITY ERASE PREPARE

F3h WRITE DMA CAh

SECURITY ERASE UNIT

F4h WRITE DMA EXT 35h

SECURITY FREEZE LOCK

F5h WRITE FPDMA QUEUED 61h

SECURITY SET PASSWORD

F1h WRITE LOG EXT 3Fh

SECURITY UNLOCK F2h WRITE MULTIPLE C5h

SEEK 70h WRITE MULTIPLE EXT 39h

SET FEATURES - WRITE SECTOR(S) 30h

Enable write cache EFh/02h WRITE SECTOR(S) EXT 34h

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2. SMART Subcommand Sets

In order to select a subcommand the host must write the subcommand code to the device's Features Register before issuing the SMART function set command. The subcommands are listed below.

Table 8 SMART Subcommand Sets

Command Command Code (Hex)

SMART READ DATA D0h

SMART ENABLE/DISABLE ATTRIBUTE AUTOSAVE D2h

SMART SAVE ATTRIBUTE VALUES D3h

SMART EXECUTE OFF-LINE IMMIDIATE D4h

SMART READ LOG D5h

SMART W RITE LOG D6h

SMART ENABLE OPERATIONS D8h

SMART DISABLE OPERATIONS D9h

SMART RETURN STATUS DAh

SMART ENABLE/DISABLE AUTOMATIC OFF-LINE DBh

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VIII. Part Numbering Scheme

Please refer to PN naming Rule Guideline for more specific identification of

product.

IX. Related Documentation

For more information, visit www.runcore.com or contact support@runcore.com.

X. Contact Us

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Hangzhou Economic & Technological Development Area, Hangzhou, P.R.China

TEL：+86-0571-28139200/201

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