Everything about CompactFlash

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: CompactFlashA 5-minute orientation
2. Pick up a classic book: Embedded FreeBSD cookbookThe most-reprinted book on the subject
3. Read the landmark paper: A space-efficient flash translation layer for CompactFlash systemsCited 531 times
4. Go sideways: Memory cardA closely related topic
5. Go sideways: MicrodriveA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• A space-efficient flash translation layer for CompactFlash systems

  Jesung Kim, Jong Min Kim, S.H. Noh · 2002 · IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics · 531 citations

• A Low-Power Datalogger Based on CompactFlash Memory for Ocean Bottom Seismometers

  S.S. Panahi, S. Ventosa, J. Cadena · 2008 · IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement · 15 citations

• Development of Mobile System for Field Data Acquisition based on CompactFlash Card

  Jung-Hee Seo, Hung-Bog Park · 2010 · The Journal of the Korean Institute of Information and Communication Engineering · 0 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Embedded FreeBSD cookbookPaul Cevoli · 2002

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