Violin Selects eASIC

eASIC
Corporation, a provider of NEW ASIC devices, announced that Violin Memory, Inc., provider scalable flash memory arrays, has selected
eASIC’s Nextreme-2T NEW ASICs for implementing flash controllers for its latest
6000 Series enterprise-grade flash memory arrays.

Violin cites superior power
consumption and cost as the key reasons for replacing high-density FPGAs with
eASIC Nextreme-2T devices within its flash storage arrays. In addition, the fast
design and turnaround time of Nextreme-2T NEW ASICs enables Violin to ramp to
high volume and establish a market lead in the
competitive market for flash memory-based enterprise storage appliances.

"We
looked at a number of ASIC platform choices for implementing our custom flash
controllers," commented Kevin Rowett, VP of engineering for Violin. "We opted to collaborate
with eASIC for reducing cost and power consumption because their Nextreme-2T
NEW ASICs enabled us to quickly migrate from FPGAs, and inexpensively ramp our
solutions to high volume production."

"There is tremendous innovation going on in
the enterprise storage market and we are thrilled to be working with Violin,
one of the fastest growing leaders in this space," said Ronnie
Vasishta, president and CEO, eASIC. "OEMs
need to continuously innovate and quickly ramp to volume production. We are
starting to see a tipping point where FPGAs cannot be used in mission critical,
power sensitive, volume applications and the ASIC alternatives do not meet the
requirements. Traditional cell-based ASICs just take too long to design and
ASSPs have limited flexibility for the NAND flash interface."