Electronics Weekly
The portable memory tokens and mating receptacles are more than 60% smaller than the equivalent Bar receptacle models, said the company.
There are two versions available. The MBRHN has an eight-pin header connector and measures 16.3mm x 14.7mm x 13.6mm (0.64 x 0.58 x 0.53 inches). The MBRFN model measures 16.3mm x 14.7mm x 9.1mm (or 0.64 x 0.58 x 0.36 inches) and uses a special interface board with an FFC/FPC connector. The receptacles are available with or without an adhesive gasket and achieve an IP67 seal when properly mounted.
Mini-Bar memory tokens are slightly larger than a microSD card but are thicker, stronger and easier to handle, said ATEK. They use serial EEPROM and are available in 16kb or 256kb capacities with either an SPI or I2C serial interface.
Next year, the company will introduce Mini-Bar memory tokens which will use Microchip’s CryptoAuthentication secure memory ICs.
The memory tokens and receptacles are used for verifying credentials in cryptographic products. In these and many embedded systems, there has been a trend for decreasing form factor size, observed Paul Plitzuweit, Datakey senior product manager. “The Mini-Bar system aims to strike the perfect balance by reducing the size of the receptacle as much as possible while ensuring that the ‘key’ (or credential) is still easy to handle,” he said.
Datakey products are available directly from ATEK Access Technologies in the US and through authorised distributors Nexus Industrial Memory and Milexia in Europe.
