SSD controllers aren’t the foremost glamorous chunks of silicon to be hawking, but you can also make quite a reputation for yourself with them (just ask SandForce ). BiTMICRO is betting that its next-gen platform can be something manufacturers will want in on. Targeted primarily at enterprise class devices, the as yet unnamed chips can be able to performing 400,000 random write IOPS per second and support drives as much as 5TB in size. By comparison, SandForce’s SF-2000 tops out at 60,000 IOPS. Others may have time to catch up, though, BiTMICRO says the platform may be ready for “market testing” in the course of the first 1/2 2012. Try out the PR after the break.
SAS, SATA, FC and PCIe Enterprise-Class SSD to Deliver Greater than 400,000 Random Write IOPS and Scale As much as Greater than 5TB of Pure Solid State Storage
SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–BiTMICRO Networks, a pioneer in intelligent flash solid state drive (SSD) storage solutions has gone full cycle within the development of its two new generation application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) designs, optimized to fulfill the growing market need for top-performance, secured and value-effective SSD solutions.
BiTMICRO’s new platform architecture, regarded as the one solid state drive storage platform design featuring two customized ASIC controllers, serves because the foundation for its new breed of SSD storage solutions expected to be released soon. a mixture of SSD controller and flash channel expander controller, these high-performing third-generation ASICs enable BiTMICRO to provide a number solid state storage product lines by using one common platform architecture. This strategy demonstrates BiTMICRO’s commitment to invent, design and deliver cutting-edge SSD storage solutions thereby resulting to faster time-to-market and reduced development cost.
The third-generation platform architecture includes a multi-core SSD controller integrated with multiple high-speed serial on-chip buses and embedded processors, achieving high-speed data transfer between host and storage device. It supports Toggle and ONFI SLC and MLC flash memory devices. Similarly, this controller is the sole ASIC platform designed with built-in standard I/O cores equivalent to SAS, SATA and PCIe, eliminating the desire for a bridge or third party I/O controllers.
The intelligent flash channel expander controller, nevertheless, manages the flash devices and supports multi-block I/O operations over a massive array of flash devices, improving parallelism of I/O transfers between the host and flash devices. The highly scalable architecture allows the variety of flash channel expanders to be increased counting on the performance and capacity requirements of a selected application.
BiTMICRO maintains its solution to design and develop controllers on to ASIC skipping the FPGA model. ASICs provide designers the pliability and efficiency in programmability. It also offers higher performance, lower power, mixed-signal integration, and lower unit cost in volume in comparison with FPGA. In an effort to fit your complete necessary features to handle customer requirements across industries within the enterprise and armed forces/industrial segments, BiTMICRO believes that the direct-to-customized ASIC strategy offers the perfect solution for the forged state storage market today.
“The completion of the brand new platform design is regarded as a big achievement in our business strategy. Being a pioneer during this industry, we realize the necessity to adapt to the demands of recent markets and explore new technologies using our Research and Development team. Proven by our growing patent portfolio, we’re committed to continue our innovation efforts in addressing the will for storage with the precise cost-performance mix. It’s with high anticipation that we see these technologies come to fruition and work for our customers,” says Rey Bruce, CEO of BiTMICRO Networks.
With BiTMICRO’s new platform strategy, the subsequent-generation SSD storage products had been designed to completely maximize the recent ASIC features. Intended to support both the enterprise and rugged markets, these products are expected to deliver greater than 400,000 random write transactions per second, scale as much as greater than 5TB of pure solid state storage capacity, ensure enterprise-class drive life endurance, and offered in SAS, SATA, Fibre Channel, and PCIe interfaces. Other features include full data path protection, embedded AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) engines for data security, and other resource optimization features.
The SSD storage device-level products utilizing said ASIC architecture are expected to be ready for market testing by the primary half 2012.
About BiTMICRO Networks
BiTMICRO® Networks, a privately held California corporation, is the leading provider of rugged and high performance non-volatile solid state drives and storage management solutions. E-Disk® Altima™ storage solutions are offered with SCSI, IDE/ATA, Fibre Channel and SATA interfaces in 2.5-inch and three.5-inch hard disk footprints, and scalable as much as several terabytes of pure solid state storage.
E-Disk® Altima™ and BiTMICRO® are registered trademarks of BiTMICRO Networks, Inc. For additional info, visit http://www.bitmicro.com.
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