FlashProMedia Manager From Proton Digital

Proton Digital Systems, Inc., provider of flash reliability solutions, announced its FlashProMedia Manager Flash Reliability  platform.

It is a flash reliability solution that delivers flash endurance and retention through LDPC ECCs coupled with Statistical Digital Signal Processing (S-DSP) at the lowest power and smallest footprint. FlashPro incorporates these technologies into a scalable flash media-side platform that can be tailored to customers’ specific requirements. FlashPro Media Managers can be optimized for all flash storage applications, from smartphones and tablets that require ultra-low power consumption to enterprise SSDs that demand the highest performance.

"We are very pleased to announce our FlashPro Media Manager platform which is designed to deliver unsurpassed reliability for next generation MLC and TLC Flash used in consumer, client and enterprise applications," said Dr. Andrei Vityaev, CEO, Proton Digital. "FlashPro features Proton’s LDPC and S-DSP technology which are optimized through advanced mathematics to achieve the smallest footprint and consume half the power of comparable solutions."

FlashPro Media Managers feature proprietary error recovery technology enabling reliable deployment of next generation 1y-nm/1z-nm MLC, TLC and 3D flash memory from all major NAND flash manufacturers. FlashPro technology works at the flash device physics level by combining robust adaptive S-DSP with powerful LDPC ECCs to achieve t>500 error correction capability per 1KB and deliver leading error recovery performance. FlashPro is a scalable platform with up to 8 flash channels each supporting 533MB/s and up to 32 Chip Enables per channel. Each Media Manager can support data transfer rates from 50MB/s up to 4.27GB/s and multiple instantiations can be integrated to achieve the desired capacity and performance.

Other key scalable parameters include: buffer size and structure, percentage of LDPC overhead, and degree of parallelism. FlashPro is programmable with an integrated microcontroller.
 
FlashPro also features a micro-programmable Sequencer that supports Toggle and ONFi interfaces and addresses all flash commands, including customer-specific commands. The sequencer makes use of hardware accelerators throughout enabling optimal LDPC operation and fast sequential command execution.
 
With each customer engagement Proton Digital delivers a FlashPro Media Manager tailored and optimized to the customer’s specific requirements.

Deliverables include:

• RTL (ASIC, Structured ASIC or FPGA)
• Synthesis Scripts
• Test Bench and Regression Test Suite
• Reference Test Platform (FPGA-based)
• Flash Analysis Software
• MATLAB Scripts
• Firmware Routines
• Documentation
• Performance Measurements
• Technical Support

Several market leaders have already selected FlashPro Media Managers with implementations into ASIC, Structured ASIC and FPGA-based Flash controllers.

The FlashPro FPGA Reference Platform will be demonstrated at the Flash Memory Summit 2013 in Santa Clara, CA, August 13 to 15, 2013.