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NAND Flash Ecosystem

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Controller IP Suppliers• Anobit: adaptive MLC, 80+ patents (acquired by Apple)• Arasan: eMMC, ONFI, UFS• Cadence: ONFI• Cyclic Design: ECC• DensBits: ECC and DSP engines• Eureka Tech: ONFI• Eonsil: eMMC• iWave: ONFI• Synopsys: UFS• Toshiba: UFS• Wave Semiconductor: (LDPC IP or App note??)• S2CInc: ONFI


NAND Controller

ONFI

NAND die

NAND die

PCIe

SATA

USB

Storage System Bus


Controller ICs

SM3263 USB3 with support for SLC, MLC, TLC

FerriseMMC NAND mangagement for eMMC 4.5

SM2246EN Supports Micron 16nm 128Gb MLC with SATA 6Gbps

88SS1074 SSD Controller for 15nm TLC

88NV9145 PCI3 Gen2 for MLC 128Gb

88SS9187 SSD with SATA 6Gbps

SF3700 SATA + PCIeUSB3 with support for SLC, MLC, TLC

Sandforce aquired by Seagate

PS31-08 10/20nm up to 64 chip enables SATA


Controller ICsUSB and Storage Card

• Alcor Micro• ASMedia Technology• Genesys Logic• JMicron Technology• Phison Electronics• Silicon Motion Technology• Skymedi• VIA Labs


Controllers / SSD / SSA• EMC (DSSD)• Fusion-io• IBM-TMS• Intel• LSI (Sandforce)• Micron• NxGnData• Hyperstone• Kaminario• Silicon Motion• Nimbus Data• Tegile Systems

• Greenliant• Samsung• SanDisk (Pliant, SmartStorage,

Fusion-IO)• Seagate (Sandforce)• Solid State Storage (Skyera)• SuperTalent• Toshiba (OCZ)• WD (STEC, Virident)• CISCO (WhipTail)• Virtium• Violin Memory (GridIron)

Consolidation to be continued


SSD Issues (vs HDD)

• Random read (good)• Random write (not so good)• Read Latency & H/W overhead for ECC (MLC)• Write amplication impact wear– garbage collection, page remapping, wear

leveling, or data movement for retention• Reliability– “You go bankrupt gradually, then suddenly”

Ernest Hemingway


SSD Market Leaders


Startup Companies


Proton Digital

• Funding– $2M seed Feb 2013, Sanjay Srivastava (ex Denali CEO)– No new funding or news since Aug 2013

• Team– CEO Andrei Vityaev (LSI, Broadcom, Infineon)– Marketing VP left for NxGn March ’14

• Product / Market– LDPC IP, FPGA application layer strategy


NxGn Data

• Funding– California company, no SEC data

• Team– CEO Nader Salessi (WD, Stec)– VP Eng Minghau Lee (WD)– VP Bus Dev – James Fife (ProtonDigital, Seagate/Stec)– Vladmir Alves (WD, Morpho)

• Product / Market– TLC SSD and Controller


CNex Labs

• Funding– $17M Sierra Ventures (Ben Yu)– Michael RAAM (Micron, LSI Logic/Sandforce)– Bill Moore ?

• Team– CEO Alan Armstrong (VP Mktg, Marvell)– VP Sales Joseph Defranco (VP Sales Marvell)– VP Eng Yiren Huang (Huawei, Brocade, Sandforce)

• Product / Market– Controller?


DSSD

• Aquired by EMC May 5• Founded by Andy Bechtolsheim Chairman• CEO – Bill Moore (3Par)• Application – in-memory databases such as SAP's HANA;– real-time analytics, especially using Hadoop;– data-intensive workloads in government and

science, such as climate modeling, face recognition and genomics.


Virtualize Storage

• Flash Cache Modules – NetApp, Oracle, EMC– Complement HDD dominant storage

• Adaptive Flash Platform – Nimble Storage• Converged Cloud – the ultimate abstraction– InMemory Computing – Oracle, SAP– CPU + Storage - Nutanix