PCIe Gen 4.0 x8 based NVMe SSD-controller surfaces

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 08/13/2018 09:27 AM | source: microsemi | 16 comment(s)

The newly announced Flashtec NVMe 3016 Gen 4 PCIe controller is sampling. The NVMe 3016 controller addresses market demand for high-reliability, high-performance PCIe Gen 4 NVMe solid state drives (SSDs) and is capable of delivering greater than 8 GB per second throughput and more than 2 million IOPS.

The NVMe 3016 provides end-to-end enterprise class data integrity with high reliability and exceptionally strong RAID and ECC to support next-generation triple level-cell (TLC) and quad level-cell QLC NAND technologies well-suited to the high growth storage end point markets, such as data center, server and storage. Its flexibility and programmability provide users the opportunity to uniquely optimize their own SSD solutions for a wide variety of applications including NVMe, KV and Open Channel SSDs, while its programmable flash channel controller interface enables customers to future-proof for multiple generations of NAND technologies.

Microsemi’s Flashtec NVMe 3016 controller supports best-in-class enterprise features going beyond the NVMe 1.3 protocol with the latest in security, encryption, virtualization and high availability support.

Fast design of PCIe Gen 4 NVMe SSDs is enabled with Flashtec firmware development acceleration tools, including an architectural simulator to enable development and debug of firmware independent of silicon. As the third-generation Flashtec enterprise NVMe controller, the NVMe 3016 controller is designed for customer reuse of previously developed firmware on earlier generation devices, and comes with NVMe evaluation boards as well as a complementary software development kit (SDK).

Microsemi’s Flashtec NVMe 3016 is part of a full end-to-end solution of storage infrastructure and endpoint solutions for PCIe Gen 4.

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Evildead666
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#5573252 Posted on: 08/13/2018 10:09 AM

It won't be long now before PCIe 4.0 starts showing up in CPU's/Chipsets.
Should be quite a boon for Expansion slots, especially NVMe drives.
Lets just hope we'll be seeing more than 16/20 available for the mainstream desktop.
I'm hoping for 32 by the time the next Ryzen's come around at 7nm.

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#5573259 Posted on: 08/13/2018 10:48 AM

Yes, I hope there's more PCIe lanes for Ryzen2, at least on the "better" chipset mainboards (just throwing out "570" in lack of better knowledge)

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#5573269 Posted on: 08/13/2018 11:36 AM

if amd was working on pciex 4.0 for ryzen 2 i think they would have spelled it loud.
I do not think we will get it with either ryzen2 or the next intel after the 9000 series.

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#5573277 Posted on: 08/13/2018 12:37 PM

I think it will be there for the Server parts at least soon on intel's side.
Seeing as its backwards compatible with PCIe 3.0, there would be no reason to not go PCIE 4.0, if it was at all possible.
Anything that uses bandwidth, Raid cards, M2 cards, PCIe SSD's, 10GbE would love some more bandwidth.

edit : I'm pretty sure there are enough pins on AM4 to get another 16 PCIe lanes in there.
PCIe 4.0 would just be the icing on the cake.
Intel doesn't have enough pins to add anything alse currently, so that would mean a new socket.

It would leave TR with 64 PCIe lanes, AM4 with 32, and Server parts with 64+.

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#5573295 Posted on: 08/13/2018 01:53 PM

if amd was working on pciex 4.0 for ryzen 2 i think they would have spelled it loud.
I do not think we will get it with either ryzen2 or the next intel after the 9000 series.

They are not. They have said when they replace the AM4 socket is when they would bring in PCIE 4. Of course things change but that was last I heard of it.

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