Part 1 Physical Layer Simplified Specification …

1 SD Specifications part 1 Physical Layer Simplified Specification Version September 25, 2006 SD Group Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (Panasonic) SanDisk Corporation Toshiba Corporation Technical Committee SD Card Association Copyright 2001-2006 SD Group (Panasonic, SanDisk, Toshiba) and SD Card Association Physical Layer Simplified Specification Version i Revision History Date Version Changes compared to previous issue April 3, 2006 Physical Layer Simplified Specification Version initial release.

2 (Supplementary Notes is applied.) September 25, 2006 Physical Layer Simplified Specification Version Copyright 2001-2006 SD Group (Panasonic, SanDisk, Toshiba) and SD Card Association Physical Layer Simplified Specification Version ii Conditions for publication Publisher: SD Card Association 2400 Camino Ramon, Suite 375 San Ramon, CA 94583 USA Telephone: +1 (925) 275-6615, Fax: +1 (925) 886-4870 E-mail: Copyright Holders: The SD Group Matsushita Electric Industrial Co.

3 , Ltd. (Panasonic) SanDisk Corporation (SanDisk) Toshiba Corporation (Toshiba) The SD Card Association Notes: The copyright of the previous versions (Version and ) and all corrections or non-material changes thereto are owned by SD Group. The copyright of material changes to the previous versions (Version ) are owned by SD Card Association. Disclaimers: The information contained herein is presented only as a standard Specification for SD Card and SD Host/Ancillary products.

4 No responsibility is assumed by SD Card Association for any damages, any infringements of patents or other right of the third parties, which may result from its use. No license is granted by implication or otherwise under any patent or rights of SD Group and SD Card Association or others. Copyright 2001-2006 SD Group (Panasonic, SanDisk, Toshiba) and SD Card Association Physical Layer Simplified Specification Version iii Conventions Used in This Document Naming Conventions Some terms are capitalized to distinguish their definition from their common English meaning.

5 Words not capitalized have their common English meaning. Numbers and Number Bases Hexadecimal numbers are written with a lower case h suffix, , FFFFh and 80h. Binary numbers are written with a lower case b suffix ( , 10b). Binary numbers larger than four digits are written with a space dividing each group of four digits, as in 1000 0101 0010b. All other numbers are decimal. Key Words May: Indicates flexibility of choice with no implied recommendation or requirement. Shall: Indicates a mandatory requirement.

6 Designers shall implement such mandatory requirements to ensure interchangeability and to claim conformance with the Specification . Should: Indicates a strong recommendation but not a mandatory requirement. Designers should give strong consideration to such recommendations, but there is still a choice in implementation. Application Notes Some sections of this document provide guidance to the host implementers as follows: Application Note: This is an example of an application note.

7 Copyright 2001-2006 SD Group (Panasonic, SanDisk, Toshiba) and SD Card Association Physical Layer Simplified Specification Version iv Table of Contents 1. General 2. System Features ..3 3. SD Memory Card System Concept ..5 Read-Write Property .. 5 Supply 5 Card Capacity .. 5 Speed Class .. 6 Bus Topology .. 7 Bus Protocol .. 7 SD Bus .. 7 SPI Bus .. 10 SD Memory Card Pins and 11 4. SD Memory Card Functional Description ..12 12 Card Identification 13 Card Reset .. 13 Operating Condition 13 Card Initialization and Identification Process.

8 15 Data Transfer Mode .. 17 Wide Bus Selection/Deselection ..19 2 GByte Card .. 19 Data Read .. 19 Data Write .. 20 22 Write Protect Management .. 22 Card Lock/Unlock Operation .. 23 General .. 23 Parameter and the Result of CMD42 .. 25 Forcing Erase .. 27 Force Erase Function to the Locked 27 Relation Between ACMD6 and Lock/Unlock 28 Commands Accepted for Locked Card .. 28 Two Types of Lock/Unlock 29 Content Protection .. 29 Application-Specific Application-Specific Command APP_CMD (CMD55).

9 29 General Command - GEN_CMD (CMD56) .. 30 Switch Function Command ..31 General .. 31 Mode 0 Operation - Check Function .. 32 Mode 1 Operation - Set Switch Function 35 Busy Status Indication for Functions .. 36 Data Structure Version .. 37 Copyright 2001-2006 SD Group (Panasonic, SanDisk, Toshiba) and SD Card Association Physical Layer Simplified Specification Version Function Table of Switch Command .. 37 Relationship between CMD6 data & other commands .. 38 Switch Function Flow Example.

10 38 Example of Checking .. 38 High-Speed Mode (25 MB/sec interface speed).. 39 Command 39 Send Interface Condition Command (CMD8) .. 40 Command Functional Difference in High Capacity SD Memory 41 Clock Control .. 42 Cyclic Redundancy Code (CRC) .. 43 Error 45 CRC and Illegal Command ..45 Read, Write and Erase Timeout Conditions .. 45 Read .. 45 Write .. 45 Erase .. 45 Commands .. 46 Command Types .. 46 Command Format .. 46 Command 46 Detailed Command Description.