The Miniature Card or MiniCard is a
flash or
SRAM memory card standard first promoted by
Intel in 1995. The card was backed by
Advanced Micro Devices,
Fujitsu
is a Japanese multinational information and communications technology equipment and services corporation, established in 1935 and headquartered in Tokyo. Fujitsu is the world's sixth-largest IT services provider by annual revenue, and the la ...
and
Sharp Electronics. They are no longer manufactured. The Miniature Card Implementers Forum (MCIF) promoted this standard for consumer electronics, such as PDAs and palmtops, digital audio recorders, digital cameras and early smartphones. The Miniature Card is 37 × 45 × 3.5 mm thick and can have devices on both sides of the substrate. Its 60-pin connector was a memory-only subset of PCMCIA and featured 16-bit data and 24-bit address bus with 3.3 or 5-volt signaling. Miniature Cards support Attribute Information Structure (AIS) in the
I²C identification
EEPROM
EEPROM (also called E2PROM) stands for electrically erasable programmable read-only memory and is a type of non-volatile memory used in computers, usually integrated in microcontrollers such as smart cards and remote keyless systems, or as a ...
.
The Miniature Card format competed with
SmartMedia and
CompactFlash cards, also released during the mid-1990s, and the earlier, larger Type I
PC Cards. Ultimately, CompactFlash and SmartMedia cards were more successful in the consumer electronics market.
Philips Velo 500 PDAs and CISCO 800 and 1700 used Miniature Cards.
See also
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Linear Flash {{Unreferenced, date=January 2009
Linear Flash is a PC card flash memory format. Linear Flash requires no battery support, unlike somewhat faster Static random access memory, SRAM, and features read/write speeds much faster than similar, less expens ...
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