Storage
The trend toward more reliable, higher capacity and faster throughput storage systems is creating the need for more efficient protocols, such as PCI Express (PCIe) and higher performing interfaces of 10Gb Ethernet and Fibre Channel. This is a driving force in re-designing SoCs to accommodate the latest standards and updated architectures that implement advanced hardware acceleration and security engines.
Like enterprise storage systems, today's digital home and consumer electronics appliances like MP3 players, digital video recorders (DVRs) and personal media players (PMPs) have ever-increasing storage needs. These devices have high security requirements and improved protocols (SATA) similar to those needed by enterprise systems, but they also have more stringent price/performance requirements. In addition, low power consumption is a key requirement, especially when solid-state storage devices (SSDs) are used in portable, battery-powered units.
MIPS® Solutions
MIPS32® 24K® and MIPS32® 34K® families of processor cores provide the control plane performance, network and application layer acceleration capabilities and the best-in-class Linux-optimized architecture required to implement an effective enterprise storage solution.
For SSD designs, the MIPS32® 4KE® and the SmartMIPS®-enabled MIPS32® 4KSd™ devices provide the following benefits:
- Performance: 1.5 DMIPS/MHz, minimizing the required frequency and accelerating the processing of flash algorithms
- Code Compression: Reducing SoC cost
- Cache & SRAM interface: Enhancing IPC performance and data throughput
- MMU & SmartMIPS: Enabling data protection and security
- CorExtend®: Offloading processing of complex algorithms
- Co-Processor Interface: Providing a simple extension to implement error-correction and DMA circuitry
- Low Power: Minimizing potential thermal issues
