The Rise? or Fall? of SSFDC 
The Rise? or Fall? of SSFDC SSFDC (pictured below) is solid state NAND flash memory on a card, currently manufactured by Toshiba and Samsung and available in 512K, 1M, 2M, 4M and 8Mbyte, with larger capacities to follow - it's already road-mapped upto 128Mbyte!. It's aimed to be all things to all sectors of electronic industry, from the the mobile phone & TV decoder market, as a smaller replacement for smartcards, to the PC market, as a floppy disk replacement. Will it be a hit like VHS, will it limp along like smartcards (potentially big, but currently just niche) or will it go the way of 2.88M floppies and Betamax? (remember those?)
The Jury's still out!
So why the web page for it? Simple - even if it is only a hit with the digital camera market, the cards are small, should be easily available, and cheap. What's more, it is a massive non-volatile electrically programmable memory - perfect for large volumes of remote data-logging, especially if SSDFC PC drives become common. Even if they don't, SSDFC PCCard adapters are already available and an adapter that fits into a standard 1.44MByte floppy disk drive, will be available in the next month or two! It also interfaces nicely to a bidiectional PC printer port as in my design.
Back to my design for the SSFDC remote data-logging
