IP-Maker: NVMe PCIe Gen 3 Reference Design
For custom design of high performance and low power storage devices
This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on July 18, 2016 at 3:19 pmIP-Maker, SAS released its NVMe Express (NVMe) reference design, using a PCIe Gen3 interface.
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It is based on the low latency hardware NVMe engine designed by the company.
“The IP-Maker team is excited to announce the availability of this new reference design” said Mickael Guyard, marketing director, IP-Maker. “The combination of the high speed PCIe Gen 3 interface with the low latency and high bandwidth features of our NVMe technology will accelerate cloud and big data applications through high performance storage devices“.
The firm’s PCIe Gen 3 NVMe reference design is based on the VC709 Xilinx evaluation kit. The NVMe IP is integrated with the advanced Virtex-7 PCIe Gen3 hard IP and a soft DDR3 controller. It uses a x4 lanesconfiguration. This UNH-IOL NVMe compliant reference design demonstrates the end-to-end low latency NVMe management. This reference design is an ideal starting point to design storage solutions such as flash-based SSD, NVMe HBA, NVRAM SSD, NG-NVM SSD or even custom all flash array.
The company’s PCIe Gen3 NVMe reference design is available and will be showcased at the Flash Memory Summit event.
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