IP-Maker Introduces Product Line of NVMe Host IPs

IP-Maker SAS is introducing a product line of NVMe Host IPs.

In addition to the Easy NVMe Host IP, targeting embedded applications and launched in 2017, the company announces the availability of two products targeting data center applications: the Advanced NVMe Host IP, and the Multi Root NVMe Host IP. Such solutions provide performance without requiring any CPU to control the NVMe protocol.

“We are proud to announce the release of this new IP family for data center applications. Our optimized RTL technology delivers high performance and low power for FPGA-based storage systems, the IP uses only few% of an FPGA to sustain 3GB/s with a Gen3x4 NVMe SSD, where it would require three cores running full time on a high end CPU.” said Mickael Guyard, marketing director, IP-Maker. “We provide our customer with the possibility to design a new area of smart products based on FPGAs, like in-storage processing accelerator and NVMe driver offload.“

This product family provides more NVMe features for data center applications. The main features are the ability to manage up to 256 queues with the Advanced NVMe Host IP, and multi NVMe SSD with the Multi Root NVMe Host IP, where the limitation is the rootport number in the FPGA. On top of that, the two IPs support the NVMe vendor specific commands, which is an important feature in order to access the NVMe SSD with proprietary commands. Such IPs are easy to integrate thanks to its standard interfaces, and easy to use thanks to its smart management: the integrated auto-init engine initializes the PCIe root port and endpoint interfaces as well as the NVMe interfaces.