Marvell today announced its latest NVM Express (NVMe) solid-state drive (SSD) controller family for mainstream and high-performance PC client and edge computing SSDs. The Gen 3x4 PCIe SSD controllers, the 4-channel 88SS1084 and 8-channel 88SS1100.
The controllers integrate Marvell’s fourth generation of NANDEdge technology, offering the advanced error correction capabilities to address the increasing demands required to enable future SSD solutions with emerging 96-layer triple level-cell (TLC) and quad level-cell (QLC) NAND architectures.
As gaming, video-on-demand, CAD, imaging, photography and video surveillance proliferate and scale, NVMe SSDs can meet the increasing storage performance and capacity requirements that these end use applications seek. The new Marvell® client NVMe SSD controller family can provide up to 3.6GB/s of bandwidth and up to 700,000 input output per second (IOPS). The 88SS1084 and 88SS1100 devices can save system power consumption by supporting lower voltage NAND devices and LPDDR4 DRAM components. These features enable PCs and edge computing devices to process and store increasingly data-intensive workloads more quickly and reliably.
In addition, the 88SS1084 and 88SS1100 use a common hardware and firmware controller architecture with Marvell’s recently announced data center and enterprise NVMe controllers, the 88S1088 and 88S1098. The common architecture enables SSD makers to leverage development efforts across their growing and widening SSD product families, and bring them to market much faster with lower development costs. Specifically, SSD makers can re-use the core differentiating elements of their firmware code base across the Marvell portfolio of NVMe and SATA SSD controllers to produce comprehensive SSD product families optimized for client, data center and enterprise segment requirements.
| FEATURES | 88SS1100 | 88SS1084 |
|---|---|---|
| Processor | Quad Cortex® R5 CPUs | Quad Cortex®-R5 CPUs |
| PCIe Interface | PCIe Gen 3x4 | PCIe Gen 3x4 |
| DDR Controller |
Upto 4GB DDR3, DDR4, LPDDR3, LPDDR4 at speeds up to 2400MT/s
32-bit data bus width
2 chip select pins
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Upto 4GB DDR3, DDR4, LPDDR3, LPDDR4 at speeds up to 2400MT/s
32-bit data bus width
2 chip select pins
|
| Flash Controller |
8 NAND Channels @ 800MT/s
Compatible with ONFI 2.2/2.3/3.0/4.0,JEDEC mode and Toggle 1.0/2.0/3.0
Hardware RAID
4th generation of Marvell NANDEdge™ LDPC engine
|
4 NAND Channels @ 800MT/s
Compatible with ONFI 2.2/2.3/3.0/4.0, JEDEC mode and Toggle 1.0/2.0/3.0
Hardware RAID
4th generation of Marvell NANDEdge™ LDPC engine
|
| NVMe |
NVMe Standard Revision 1.3 compliance
256 outstanding I/O commands
T-10 DIF and end-to-end data protection
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NVMe Standard Revision 1.3 compliance
256 outstanding I/O commands
T-10 DIF and end-to-end data protection
|
| Security | OTP support for secure drive configuration AES encryption hardware Media re-encryption hardware |
OTP support for secure drive configuration
AES encryption hardware
Media re-encryption hardware
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| Temperature Support | 0 C to 70 C (Operating) | 0 C to 70 C (Operating) |
| Package | Available in standard 17mm x 17mm (625 ball) BGA package | Available in standard 12mm x 13.5mm (418 ball) BGA package |
Applications
- 88SS1100: PC Client Ultra-High Performance SSDs
- 88SS1084: PC Client Mainstream and High-Performance SSDs
“Marvell is expanding and broadening our leading portfolio of NVMe SSD controllers to help our customers address the growing amount of diversifying SSD product opportunities with emerging 3D TLC and QLC NAND components,” said Nigel Alvares, vice president of SSD and Data Center Storage Solutions at Marvell. “Our common SSD hardware and firmware controller architecture spanning our client, data center and enterprise products enables our customers to quickly develop tailored SSDs for each of these segments with minimal incremental engineering effort and achieve optimal return on investment of their precious firmware engineering resources.”
Marvell has been investing in SSD controllers since 2007 and released its first SSD controller in 2009. Marvell is now on its sixth generation of NVMe-based controllers and its eighth generation of PCIe-based ones. The newest NVMe SSD controller family builds on Marvell’s legacy of more than 20 years’ experience in hard disk drive (HDD) controller storage technology, complex system-level system-on-chip (SoC) design, advanced error correction algorithms, and low-power architectures.
The 88SS1084 and 88SS1100 SSD controllers are available for purchase now. For more information on the new Marvell client SSD controller family, please visit: http://www.marvell.com/storage/ssd/88ss1084-1100/.
