PLDA and Fastor Implement PCIe IP With DMA

PLDA, in PCIe IP solutions and Fastor Systems, Inc., provider of SSDs for enterprise and cloud applications, announced the incorporation of PLDA PCIe IP with built-in DMA into an upcoming Fastor Systems’ NVMe SSD.

Fastor’s architecture is the industry’s first fabric-based SSD. The use of this non-blocking switch fabric has enabled a disruptive benefits resulting in a new generation of features and functions, or SSD 2.0.

These benefits include:

• Eliminates the bus contention inherent in all existing SSDs, and results in higher and more stable performance as well higher capacity and lower cost of ownership
• Allows the full performance potential of the flash memory to be unleashed, which is not possible in any controller-centric architecture
• Enables reductions in implementation cost and power consumption through SSD virtualization

The Fastor Systems NVMe SSD utilizes IP from PLDA to enable the performance levels required within their PCIe subsystem. The PLDA IP provides an easy-to-use and configurable PCIe interface IP with integrated multi-channel DMA.

“The integration of PLDA’s silicon-proven IP within Fastor Systems’ SSD will result in a high-quality, integrated hardware and software solution and we are proud to be a part of its creation,” stated Stephane Hauradou, CTO, PLDA.

According to Daniel Mahoney, CEO, Fastor, “PLDA’s IP provides dramatic improvements in DMA performance in our PCIe interface block, allowing us to fully demonstrate the performance potential of our new architecture.”

He added: “PLDA’s IP is well supported by their technical staff, and it will be an important element in the ultimate success of our product and the next generation SSD architecture which it embodies.”

PLDA provides several silicon-ready PCIe with DMA IP solutions for Xilinx and Altera FPGAs. All products are available.