Trident Space & Defense Europe - Rugged Solid State Drives (SSDs) for Military, Defence and Aerospace Industries

Trident Space & Defense, headquartered in Torrance, California, specializes in high-reliability electronics components, innovative semiconductor packaging, survivable data storage, and ultra-rugged solid state drives (SSDs). Trident also designs and operates turnkey ground stations for national space agencies. For over 30 years, Trident has delivered high-reliability electronic components and subsystems to the aerospace and defence industries.

In December, 2010, Trident became a subsidiary of Telecommunications Systems (TCS) of Annapolis, Maryland. Trident extends TCS's expertise in end-to-end secure wireless communications, and provides an AS/EN/JISQ9100/ISO 9001-certified engineering design and packaging centre for TCS's Swift Link line of satellite-based communication systems.

• Trident Space & Defense has three business units:
• Advanced products group (APG)
• Electronic components group
• Ground systems group

Solid-State Drives with Flash for Military, Army and Aerospace Applications

The APG Group designs and manufactures rugged solid-state drives (SSDs), radiation-tolerant electronic devices, and provides assembly capability. It offers strong expertise in multi-chip modules and 3D stacking, ASIC packaging, test and screening, system-in-package and custom build / packaging solutions. Trident Space & Defense delivers a variety of SIP, MMIC, custom, and radiation tolerant products to several US Primes and European defense contractors. Trident SSDs are developed for military, avionic and harsh defence environments.

Solid State Drives for Army Applications

• Army Vehicles
• Rugged Army Gun Mounts
• Rugged Military Vibration Sensitive SSD
• Rugged Encryption SSD

Key features of Trident SSDs include:

• Military, defense, aerospace, avionic and high-altitude applications
• Designed and manufactured in the USA at AS9100 certified facilities
• Built to IPC-610 class-3 level
• Employ only SLC NAND technology
• Forms 2.5 @ 9.5mm, @ 16mm, BGA and custom
• Capacity: 2.5 form 32GB to 256GB, BGA 8GB, 16GB and 32GB
• Near-term roadmap includes drives up to 400GB in capacity
• Plug'n'Play, independent of operating system
• No device driver development required
• Write protect and jumper
• SATA 2.6 at 1.5 and 3.0GB/s
• ATA/ATAPI-7, SMART and TRIM supported
• Data retention: more than ten years
• Endurance: more than 100,000 writes
• MTBF: more than 1.24 million hours, Telcordia 25°C, 32GB SSD
• Resulting bit error rate less than one in 10e14 and better
• Operating temperature: -40°C to +85°C
• Tested to boot cold from -60°C
• Standard military input voltage tolerance of ± 10%
• Low power requirements; integrated power-fail management
• Storage temperature: -50°C to +95°C
• Rigorously tested and independently verified to MIL-STD-810
• Shock: 1,500G at 0.5ms
• Vibration: 16.3G minimum RMS, 20Hz to 2 KHz, one hour per axis, three axes
• High altitude 80,000ft
• Random vibration options up to 45Grms available
• Mechanical shock tested at 50g @ 11ms, ½ sine, six-direction, 3X
• Burned in for eight hours with option for 96-hour extended burn-in
• Other assembly options include conformal coating, silicone gel and epoxy staking

Rugged 128GB SSD

The PROTEUS is a 128GB SSD that delivers sustained read/write speeds of 250MB/s and 205MB/s. It is equipped with integrated hardware support for on-the-fly, per sector error detection and correction, and is protected by a precision-machined, anodized aluminium alloy case for ruggedness. Other features include:

• Fast erase <8s (128GB)
• NSA/CSS manual 9-12 <9min (128GB)
• RCC-TG IRIG 106-07 Chap.10 <16min (128GB)
• Alternative erasure methods upon request
• Low-power, max read/write 1.30W/2.00W(128GB)
• 64MB cache enables high IOPS for small block random operations
• Supports SATA, revision 2.6, interface standard at up to 3.0GB/s
• ITAR free

Vibration and shock-resistant BGA package

The BGA Drive is a complete BGA package solution that can be soldered directly to the motherboard. It is vibration and shock-resistant and has a sustained R/W speed of up to 45MB/s, with access time of 0.5ms. The drive is operating system independent, resistant to extreme shock and vibration, and compact at 31mm x 31mm. It is equipped with a write protect pin and IDE Ultra-DMA 100.