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Bus Doctor™ CE-ATA and MMC Protocol Analyzer
According to a recent Gartner/Dataquest report, shipments of sub 1
inch drives for non-PC markets are expected to grow from 40 million
units in 2005 to 146 million units by 2009. The application areas
fueling this growth are digital media players, digital recorders, digital
audio players such as the wildly popular iPod from Apple Computers,
multi-media cellular phones such as the recently ones developed by
leading mobile telephone manufacturers.
CE-ATA is a new storage protocol initiated by the CE-ATA standard
committee to address this new emerging market. Utilizing the proven
MMC physical interface and a subset of the ATA protocol, CE-ATA is
optimized for mobile power and performance; these are factors critical
in mobile consumer electronic applications.
Without a CE-ATA protocol analyzer, storage, silicon and design
engineers will find working with this new storage technology
challenging.
