CE-ATA

{{Short description|Interface for small hard drives}}

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Consumer Electronics ATA (CE-ATA) is an interface standard for the connection of storage devices and hosts in consumer electronic device such as mobile and handheld devices. One of the primary goals is to standardize connections for small form factor hard disk drives such as 1-inch Microdrives.

The standard is maintained by the CE-ATA Workgroup.

History

The CE-ATA Specification was developed in 2005.

Interface

= MMC =

CE-ATA is electrically and physically compatible with MMC specification. CE-ATA uses MMC connector on host devices and matching flex cable or circuit connection on CE-ATA hard disk drives.

= Pin Assignment =

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Pin #

! Signal - x4 Data Lines

! Signal - x8 Data Lines

1VssVss
2DAT2DAT2
3DAT3DAT3
4Supply VoltageVss
5CMDDAT4
6Interface VoltageDAT5
7CLKSupply Voltage
8VssCMD
9DAT0Interface Voltage
10DAT1CLK
11VssVss
12ReservedDAT6
13(Not Used)DAT7
14(Not Used)Vss
15(Not Used)DAT0
16(Not Used)DAT1
17(Not Used)Vss
18(Not Used)Reserved

See also