TheMiniature Card or MiniCard is aflash orSRAMmemory card standard first promoted byIntel in 1995. The card was backed byAdvanced Micro Devices,Fujitsu andSharp 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 theI²C identificationEEPROM.
The Miniature Card format competed withSmartMedia andCompactFlash cards, also released during the mid-1990s, and the earlier, larger Type IPC Cards. Ultimately, CompactFlash and SmartMedia cards were more successful in the consumer electronics market.
Olympus Digital Voice Recorder D1000 and thedigital cameraHP Photosmart uses the Miniature Card.[1][2][3] AlsoPhilips Velo 500 PDAs and CISCO 800 and 1700 used Miniature Cards.
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