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Digital Storage in Consumer Electronics

The Essential Guide

  • 1st Edition - February 29, 2008
  • Latest edition
  • Author: Thomas M. Coughlin
  • Language: English

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Description

Can you imagine life without your cell phone, laptop, digital camera, iPod, BlackBerry, flat-screen TV, or DVD player? The skyrocketing demand for devices that provide simple, immediate access to large amounts of content is driving required digital storage capacity to unprecedented levels. Designing digital storage into consumer electronics is crucial to the performance and cost of these devices. However, as our requirements for digital content storage grow, so does the formidable difficulty of implementing design solutions that are rugged, long-lasting, power-miserly, secure, network-accessible and can still fit in the palm of your hand!This book provides the background necessary to understand common digital storage devices and media. It helps readers decide which methods of storage work best for which kinds of devices, and then teaches designers how to successfully integrate them into consumer products.

Key features

  • Presents best practices for selecting, integrating, and using storage devices to achieve higher performance, greater reliability and lower cost
  • Teardown photos provide rare visuals of the "guts" of the devices discussed
  • Covers hot topics including flash memory, DVRs, Apple iPods, home networks, and automotive electronics, from basic layouts to standards, advanced features, and exciting growth opportunities

Readership

Consumer electronics engineers, technicians, and managers, embedded engineers, system engineers, product designers & developers, network engineers and managers, programmers, marketing and sales personnel, and providers of content to electronic device end users

Table of contents

Chapter 1 Introduction1.1 Objectives in this Chapter1.2 Growth in digital content drives storage growth1.3 Economics of consumer devices1.4 Rules for design of digital storage in consumer electronics1.5 Classification of devices using storage in the home1.6 Consumer electronics storage hierarchies1.7 Multiple storage and hybrid storage devices1.8 Chapter SummaryChapter 2 Fundamentals of hard disk drives2.1 Objectives in this Chapter2.2 Basic layout of a hard disk drive2.3 Hard disk magnetic recording basics2.4 How data is organized on a hard disk drive2.5 Hard disk drive performance and reliability2.6 Hard disk drive design for mobile and static CE applications2.7 The cost of manufacturing a hard disk drive2.8 Disk drive external interfaces2.9 Hard disk drive technology development2.10 Chapter SummaryChapter 3 Fundamentals of optical storage 3.1 Objectives in this chapter3.2 Optical disc technologies3.3 Basic operation of an optical disc drive3.4 How data is organized on a optical disc3.5 Optical disc form factors3.6 Optical product reliability3.7 Holographic recording3.8 Optical disc storage development3.9 Chapter summaryChapter 4 Fundamentals of flash memory and other solid state memory technologies4.1 Objectives in this chapter4.2 Development and history of flash memory 4.3 Erasing, Writing and Reading flash memory 4.4 Difficulties that cause “Wear” in flash memory4.5 Common flash memory storage technologies: NOR and NAND4.6 Bit errors in NAND flash4.7 Managing wear in NAND and NOR4.8 Bad Block Management4.9 Embedded vs. removable NAND flash 4.10 Flash memory file systems4.11 Single level cell and multi-level cell flash memory 4.12 Another approach to MLC4.13 Trade-offs with multi-level flash memory 4.14 Types of flash memory used in CE devices 4.15 Flash memory environmental sensitivity 4.16 Using memory reliability specifications to estimate product life-time 4.17 Flash memory cell lifetimes and wear-leveling algorithms 4.18 Predicting NAND bit errors based upon worst-case usage 4.19 Flash memory format specifications and characteristics4.20 Flash memory and other solid state storage technology development4.21 Expected change in cost per GB of flash memory formats 4.22 Other solid state storage technologies 4.23 Chapter summaryChapter 5 Storage in home consumer electronic devices5.1 Objectives in this chapter 5.2 Personal video recorders, digital video recorders5.3 Home Media Center and Home Network Storage5.4 Chapter summaryChapter 6 Storage in mobile consumer electronic devices6.1 Objectives in this chapter 6.2 Automobile consumer electronics storage6.3 Mobile Media Players6.4. Cameras and Camcorders6.5 Mobile phones6.6 Other consumer devices6.7 Chapter summaryChapter 7 Integration of storage in consumer devices7.1 Objectives in this chapter7.2 Storage costs in consumer product design7.3 Development of common consumer functions7.4 Intelligence of digital storage in consumer electronics7.5 Matching storage to different applications7.6 The convergence of electronics—when the storage becomes the device or was it the other way around?7.7 Roadmaps for CE application integration in storage devices7.8 Chapter summaryChapter 8 Development of home network storage and home storage virtualization8.1 Objectives in this chapter 8.2 What drives home networking trends?8.3 Networking options in the home8.4 Push vs. pull market for home networks8.5 Home networks for media sharing8.6 Home networks for home reference data backup8.7 Projections for home network storage8.8 Design of network storage devices8-9 Advanced home storage virtualization8.10 Home network storage and content sharing within the home8.11 Privacy, content protection and sharing in home network storage8.12 Chapter summaryChapter 9 The future of home digital storage9.1 Objectives in this chapter9.2 Digital storage requirements for home data sharing and social networking9.3. Integrated multiple purpose devices vs. dedicated devices9.4. Physical content distribution vs. downloads and streaming9.5. Personal memory assistants9.6. Digital storage in everything9.7. Home storage utility—when all storage devices are coordinated9.8. Digital storage in future consumer electronics9.9. Projections for storage demands in new applications9.10. Digital storage as our cultural heritage9.11 Chapter summaryChapter 10 Standards for consumer electronics storage and appendices10.1 Digital storage standards 10.2 Consumer product standards10.3 Home networking standards10.4 Needed standards for future consumer electronic developmentAppendix A - Specification comparison of some 1.8-inch hard disk drives and a flash solid state drive.Appendix B – Home networking technology trade groups:Appendix C--Companies making various storage products used in consumer applications

Review quotes

"This book will immediately become an indispensable reference book for the storage industry movers and shakers, developers and users. It will be a valued contribution for years to come."—Rick Wietfeldt, CTO, Emerging Technologies and Strategy, Texas Instruments, Inc.

"Tom Coughlin's The Essential Guide to Digital Storage in Consumer Electronics is an excellent guide to the internal workings of increasingly ubiquitous digital storage. I highly recommend this book to anyone who wishes to understand and not simply use technology to enrich their lives."—Tom Clark, Principal Engineer, Brocade, and Board Member of the Storage Networking Industry Association

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: February 29, 2008
  • Language: English

About the author

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Thomas M. Coughlin

Tom Coughlin is a 25-year veteran of the digital storage industry. He has worked at several companies (including Ampex, Seagate, Maxtor, and Polaroid) designing and managing the design of digital storage products. He is the founder and organizer of the Storage Visions Conference, the leading annual event on digital storage in consumer electronics. Attendance at Storage Visions has increased about 70% annually in recent years, and includes all the major worldwide players in the technology. Tom is also a market analyst in the storage area and the author of annual reports on entertainment content creation and distribution and on the integration of digital storage into consumer electronics. He has extensive industry contacts and a broad base of support for the research required to complete this book. He has over 50 publications and six patents to his credit and is active in the IEEE Consumer Electronics Society (current chairman of the Santa Clara Valley IEEE CE Society), the IDEMA Consumer Electronics Committee (co-chair), and other professional organizations. Tom has a bachelor of science in Physics and a Masters in Electrical Engineering with a minor in Materials Science.
Affiliations and expertise
President, Coughlin Associates, Inc.

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