SC Virtual: Silicon Motion SM8266 Enterprise-Grade 16-Channel PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD Controller

Silicon Motion Technology Corporation announced the SM8266, an enterprise-grade 16-channel PCIe 4.0 NVMe hardware plus firmware SSD controller solution.

Customers can develop and bring to market enterprise SSDs for data centers by using a complete development platform that includes a NVMe firmware stack and hardware reference design kit.

“Our solution is the only complete PCIe Gen4 turnkey solution available today from an established merchant controller supplier,” said Nelson Duann, SVP, marketing and R&D. “Since the introduction of our PCIe Gen3 turnkey solution, we have established a longer track record of supplying turnkey solutions in terms of customer adoption and sale volume than any other company. Our Shannon Systems team is already custom designing enterprise-grade NVMe, Open-Channel and Key-Value SSDs using SM8266 for hyperscale customers’ data centers with production expected in 2021.“

Advanced enterprise SSD controller solution
The SM8266 controller solution features the company’s firmware and hardware technology to provide consistent, low latency QoS domains. Offering capacity up to 16TB with 16 NAND flash channels, it is designed to support the latest 3D TLC and QLC NAND flash technologies. To ensure enterprise reliability, data integrity and retention at PCIe Gen4 performance, the SM8266 is equipped with the firm’s technologies including:

6th gen NANDXtend technology, which incorporates ML algorithms supporting the company’s proprietary performance LDPC ECC engine with RAID, ensuring better data integrity even in extreme operating environments.
End-to-end data path protection, which applies ECC to the SSD’s SRAM and DRAM buffers as well as to the primary NAND flash memory array.
This maintains data integrity as data is transmitted between the host and the SSD, and between buffer memories and NAND flash.
Power loss protection, which eliminates the risk of data loss in the event of an unexpected power outage.

Other features of SM8266 include:

Performance PCIe Gen4 x4 and NVMe 1.4 compliance
Turnkey stacks enable standard NVMe SSD as well as proprietary Open-Channel and Key-Value SSD implementations
Support for up to 16TB of physical NAND capacity
Low and consistent latency enabled by physical and logical isolation
High sequential read performance of up to 6.5GB/s and 950,000 sustained random read IO/s
Data security with AES 256-bit hardware supporting SED, Secure Boot and TCG Opal

The company showcased SM8266 at SC Virtual from November 17 to 19.

Resource:
SM8266 video

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