Reading, United Kingdom. Solid State Disks Limited’s (SSDL’s) SCSIFlash technology has been shortlisted for a Manufacturing Supplier Innovation Award US 2025: in the ‘Most Innovative Use of Reverse Engineering’ category.
The shortlisting recognises SCSIFlash’s ability to not only extend the life of equipment used in semiconductor fabrication but also allow users to progress their digital transformation journeys.
“We’re delighted to have been shortlisted for this prestigious award,” commented James Hilken, Sales Director of SSDL. “It reflects the hard work our engineers put into making SCSIFlash such a clever and versatile technology.”
Whilst semiconductor fabs make very high-tech and high-value products, ironically, the computer-based processing tools they use are often decades old: and the data storage devices are often early generation SCSI hard disk drives.
With their moving parts, these old drives are increasingly at risk of failure. Understandably, the drives are long obsolete.
SSDL’s SCSIFlash technology has made possible the creation of solid-state, form-fit-function replacements for virtually any legacy electromechanical drive that uses a SCSI interface (i.e. SASI, SCSI-1 and SCSI-2), or indeed PATA/IDE or ESDI.
“To create our range of SCSIFlash drives, our highly experienced engineers worked from original circuit diagrams, mechanical drawings and other documentation, where available,” added Hilken. “And for the data/signal interface the company interrogated several original drives using oscilloscopes and logic analysers.”
SSDL’s SCSIFlash drives have been used to replace legacy drives in manufacturing equipment made by Canon, DEC and Lam Research, for example, and end users (fabs) include Applied Materials, ASM, Seagate, Texas Instruments and Western Digital.
Hilken concluded: “Again, we’re delighted to have been shortlisted for this Manufacturing Supplier Innovation Award, as SCSIFlash really does reflect our reverse engineering capabilities.”
You can vote for us here https://form.fillout.com/t/6qCZLF1wNgus
For further information on our Reverse Engineering capability can be found here
