HCC and Swissbit Demonstrate High Level of SD-Card Data Integrity

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Swissbit & HCC Embedded today announced that they will demonstrate a completely robust, fail-safe embedded storage system at the Embedded World 2013 show in Nürnberg. The system is based on a combination of Swissbit’s Industrial SD Card and HCC’s SafeFAT fail-safe file system.

“HCC’s SafeFAT fail-safe file system together with our inherently robust S-200 Series SD Memory Card is a perfect pairing. The combined result is a step increase in the data integrity of the application.”

In order to achieve a truly fail-safe storage system, the behavior and requirements of all layers of the system must be properly defined. The demonstration will use Swissbit’s S-200 Industrial SD Card, with intelligent power-fail protection and recovery, in conjunction with HCC’s fail-safe SafeFAT file system. Using SafeFAT with the S-200 it is possible to create a completely reliable FAT based file system that will always recover from unexpected events. Interruption of power or communications will never result in a loss of data or, worse, a damaged file system.

There will be a live demonstration of two systems running side by side - the fail-safe system running next to a freeware file system using a standard SD card. Both systems will be subject to failure injections and any file system problems experienced are displayed on a monitor. Visitors will be able to evaluate the risks involved in using poorly defined software and hardware and will learn how using a fail-safe system can provide more reliability and improves the quality of their applications.

David Brook, Director of Marketing at HCC said “HCC is very excited to see Swissbit produce such reliable and well defined flash devices. A large part of the embedded market will benefit hugely from this kind of cooperation between suppliers “

Gaetano Perrella of Swissbit said “HCC’s SafeFAT fail-safe file system together with our inherently robust S-200 Series SD Memory Card is a perfect pairing. The combined result is a step increase in the data integrity of the application."

Visitors can see the demonstration on HCC’s booth in Hall4 booth 204 or Swissbit’s booth in Hall 1 booth 524.

About Swissbit
Swissbit is the largest DRAM memory module and Flash storage device manufacturer in Europe. Created from a management buyout of the Siemens HL Business Unit in 2001, Swissbit has today facilities in Switzerland, Germany, Japan and U.S.A..
Swissbit offers industrial DRAM memory modules in all technologies and Flash industrial storage product families including SSD (SATA and PATA interfaces), mSATA, slim-SATA, CFast, CF, SD, MICRO SD, MMC and USB. All Swissbit products meet highest quality criteria and RoHS and REACH directives. The target markets for the Swissbit products are industrial electronics, automotive, railway technology, wired telecommunications, medical electronics as well as aerospace/defense. Additional company and product information is available at www.swissbit.com.

About HCC-Embedded
HCC-Embedded is the foremost vendor of Advanced Embedded Middleware for storage and communication. Implementation is based on a strong process that produces robust, target independent software modules. The company offers an extensive family of embedded middleware including file systems, TCP/IP, USB software for host and device, flash translation layers and eTaskSync. Products run in most environments, with most OSes or without an OS, and with most processors and peripherals. All HCC-Embedded products are licensed on a royalty-free basis and distributed in full source form.