IP-Maker Targets FPGA-Based Data Center Storage Applications

French IP-Maker, in IP for high performance storage applications, is announcing the availability of its IP portfolio on 7-series Xilinx FPGAs, including NVMe, Universal NandFlash Controller and BCH ECC.

“Using our IPs with Vivado tools and 7-series Xilinx FPGAs will help our customers to benefit from the latest high performance technologies,” said Mickael Guyard, product marketing director, IP-Maker. “The IPs are available in both Vivadosource code and netlist.“

The automatic NVMe command processing reduces the latency and the multi-channel DMA is able to saturate the PCIe bus. That makes a high performance solution for current NandFlash-based, SSD and it is ready to sustain the performances of the next generation of non-volatile memory such as MRAM and RRAM.

The low latency NVMe reference design is available on both Zynq and Virtex-7 FPGAs. It has been ported on the Zynq development board ZC706 from Xilinx, Inc. and Virtex-7 XpressV7-LP board from PLDA. Both designs provides down to 12µs latency and up to 350k IO/s with a Gen2 x4 configuration.

It will be showcased at the coming Flash Memory Summit, Santa Clara, CA, August 5-7.