DiskOnChip

M-Systems DiskOnChip Plus MD2811-D32-V3

DiskOnChip ( DoC ) is a historical flash memory from the Israeli manufacturer M-Systems, which no longer exists .

The DoC came onto the market in 1995 as the world's first commercially relevant flash SSD . The silent storage medium manages without rotating mechanical parts and is therefore less sensitive to vibration and temperature than, for example, the microdrives that are currently on the market . The memory is housed in a 32-pin DIP housing . Different versions of the DOCs offer a capacity between 2  MB and 4  GB .

The DoC has been in industrial embedded systems, military deployment devices, internet boxes, set-top boxes , network routers and since October 2004 as a non-volatile memory in palmOne - PDAs used (see NVFS ).

Internally, the DoC module contained a controller for error correction procedures , took defective data blocks into account and had functions that enabled the implementation of a special file system (TrueFFS), for which the company made its own software available.

The Israeli engineer Dov Moran (* 1956) is considered the inventor who developed DiskOnChip with his company M-Systems. At the end of 2006, M-Systems was sold to SanDisk Corp. for 1.6 billion US dollars . sold. The end of the product line was announced in 2007.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Meir Pugatch, Morris Teubal, Odeda Zlotnick: Israel's High-Tech Catch-Up Process: The Role of IPR and Other Policies . In: Hiroyuki Odagiri, Akira Goto, Atsushi Sunami, Richard R. Nelson (Eds.): Intellectual Property Rights, Development, and Catch Up. An International Comparative Study . Oxford University Press , Oxford 2010, ISBN 0-19-957475-8 , pp. 225 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
2. ↑ Guy Grimland: Dov Moran's world of total connectivity. In: Haaretz.com. February 12, 2008, accessed September 26, 2019 .