Marvell Flash Memory Solution

Big data, mobile computing, and applications that require large amounts of data motivate consumers and businesses to rely more on flash. Recently, industry-leading flash memory solutions have appeared at the flash memory summit held at the Santa Clara Convention Center in the United States. The solution was brought about by Marvell, a global leader in integrated chip solutions, leading the end-to-end cloud computing chips, chips/software and boards for the family cloud, enterprise cloud and public cloud. A technology provider for flash drive solutions.

An Introduction:

Marvell® DragonFlyTM overall performance Marvell will announce the DragonFly platform at the Flash Memory Summit. The groundbreaking DragonFly platform combines Marvell's system-on-chip technology with its newly designed circuit board and can be plugged directly into PCIe slots in commercial servers. This leads to leading system solutions that deliver 10-100x lower latency, improve server I/O performance, and reduce data center power, space, and storage costs. The DragonFly platform will be officially commercialized on September 15, 2012.

DragonFly has many selling points as a PCIe Gen2 x8 adapter, supporting up to 8GB SODIMM ECC DRAM and up to 1.5 TB of external SSD; read, write-back, and write-through cache; synchronous low-latency point-to-point write-back; 3.2 GB/s data throughput; latency less than 22us; 220K IOPS read and write; integrated on-board supercapacitor for data protection in case of power outage; supports many hosts including RHEL, KVM, Xen, VMWare, and Windows operating system.

Marvell ARM SSD Server Design Marvell is firmly committed to the flash business and introduces flash memory solutions to help OEMs focus on developing differentiated products. Marvell is moving away from the competition as a one-stop shop for introducing an end-to-end ARM SSD server reference design, shifting its focus to providing end-to-end silicon solutions for networking, application processors, storage connectivity, and NAND flash controllers.

The Marvell® ARM architecture 4-core ARMADA®XP system-on-chip is the world's first 4-core ARM processor designed for enterprise-class cloud computing applications. Servers based on this processor achieve higher CPU utilization and can be based on The expansion of demand has provided data centers and enterprises with lower-power, more efficient, and cost-effective server solutions.

Marvell will also demonstrate its ARM SSD server reference design at the booth. The demonstration will combine the ARM server reference design based on the ARMADA XP and 88SE9445 PCIe-SAS/SATA controller with the SanDisk X100 6Gb/s SATA SSD. The system reference architecture has market-leading performance, low power consumption, and space efficiency, providing breakthrough benefits for the new generation of ultra-large-scale cloud computing and enterprise data centers.

System-on-chips that support SSD storage Marvell will also conduct a number of demonstrations including storage system-on-chips for PCIe solid-state drives, SAS solid-state drives, and Thunderbolt-based solid-state drives. Includes a PCIe SSD reference design for playing high-definition streaming video on Thunderbolt technology-based SSDs using Marvell chips, showing robust I/O acceleration on bare metal and virtual server applications, and several OEM customers using Marvell for host bus adapters and SSDs are finished samples of storage system-level chips.

Samples of the bridge-based PCIe SSDs used the Marvell 88SE9230, a PCIe 2.0x8 to 8x 6Gb/s SAS/SATA I/O controller, and the Marvell 88SE9230, a PCIe 2.0x2 to 4x 6Gb/s SATA I/O controller. The native PCIe SSD reference design uses a Marvell reference board that integrates a low-latency non-blocking PLX PCIe switch and multiple Marvell 88NV9145 PCIE-NAND modules. SAS SSDs feature the Marvell 88SF9210 (6Gb/s dual-port SAS to dual SATA port protocol converter) and the 88SF9110 (6Gb/s dual-port SAS to single SATA port protocol converter). Thunderbolt-enabled SSDs use the Intel Thunderbolt controller in combination with Marvell PCIe-SATA I/O controllers such as the 88SE9230 and 88SE9182.