PM8602 NVMe1016
Overview
Solid-state drives promise to greatly enhance enterprise storage performance with faster random access to data and faster transfer rates. PCI Express® (PCIe)-based SSDs together with the NVM Express host control alleviates the interface bottleneck. Microsemi's Flashtec™ family of NVMe compliant PCIe enterprise flash controllers dramatically boost the number of random I/O operations per second (IOPS)that a system can process, while concurrently reducing latency and power.The NVMe1016 is a member of Microsemi's Flashtec™ family of NVMe enterprise controllers. The NVMe1016 is a single chip 32-channel NAND Flash controller with PCIe Gen3 x8 or dual independent PCIe Gen3 x4 (active/active or active/standby) host interface. The NVMe1016 is optimized for high performance 4KB random read/write operations and performs all Flash management operations on-chip, thus consuming negligible host processing and host RAM resources and supporting standard NVM Express host control interface.
Microsemi's NVMe1016 provides the data integrity and reliability features expected in enterprise class solutions. All memories are protected with SECDED ECC. Internal data path protection eliminates the possibility of silent data corruption. Flash reliability is ensured through a combination of exceptionally strong ECC and Flash channel RAID.
Microsemi's NVMe1016 has been optimized for power savings using a combination of architectural and semiconductor design techniques. Emphasis has been given not only to absolute power consumption, but also to advanced power management features, including, automatic idling of processor cores and autonomous power reduction capabilities. The NVMe1016 allows the platform to provide power and performance objectives through the Enterprise NVM Express dynamic power management interface, allowing firmware to effectively manage power and performance.
Microsemi's NVMe1016 offers the highest Capacity NVMe solutions in the industry. PMC is enabling capacity in caching, snapshots, content and file services. Customers are able to write their own software as services directly into applications. Additionally, compute and storage are now co-located in the data center and servers which enables higher capacity and performance. PMC platforms enable the industry’s largest storage capacities – up to 8TB!
Microsemi's Flashtec Controller family is utilized by the world’s leading data center operators and SSD manufacturers. These SSDs are used in enterprise-class centralized data centers and storage systems, server caching applications, and other systems requiring high performance storage drives. End users deploy these PCIe SSD-based systems in their data centers for cloud computing and business-critical applications, such as online transaction processing, database mining, and any other application that is sensitive to storage,latency and performance.
Highlights
- Up to 8TB Flash capacity using 128Gb Flash
- SLC, MLC, and Enterprise MLC Flash with Toggle and ONFI interface
- PCIe Gen3 x8 or dual independent PCIe Gen3 x4 (active/active or active/standby)host interface 16 and 32 independent 8-bit Flash channels, each supporting up to 8 targets
- Standard Enterprise NVM Express (NVMe) host control interface
- Option ROM allows PCIe Flash controller to be used as a boot device
- Encryption (XTS-AES-256)
- Option ROM allows PCIe Flash controller to be used as a boot device
- Power fault and abrupt shutdown without data loss or corruption
- Data integrity and reliability
- Strong Flash ECC
- Flash channel RAID
- Internal data path protection
- SECDED ECC on all internal RAMs and DDR3 SDRAM
- Optional end-to-end host to Flash data protection