PLDA and Fastor Collaborate on Upcoming SSD
SAN JOSE, Calif., Nov. 14 -- PLDA today announced the incorporation of PLDA’s PLDA PCIe IP with advanced built-in DMA into an upcoming Fastor Systems’ NVMe Solid State Drive.
Fastor Systems’ architecture is the industry’s first and only fabric based SSD in the marketplace today. The use of this non-blocking switch fabric has enabled a multitude of 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 dramatic reductions in implementation cost and power consumption through SSD virtualization
The Fastor Systems NVMe SSD utilizes IP from PLDA to enable the high performance levels required within their PCIe subsystem. The PLDA IP provides an easy-to-use and fully configurable PCI Express interface IP with integrated multi-channel DMA.
According to Daniel Mahoney, CEO of Fastor Systems, “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.”
