Shulou(Shulou.com)11/24 Report--

Recently, the annual domestic flash memory summit Flash Memory World 2023 ended perfectly in Xiaoshan, Hangzhou. Centering on the theme of "the Future of Core Storage AI", the summit brought together relevant industry leaders and authoritative professors and scholars to discuss the memory industry ecology with flash memory and memory chips as the core, and exchange the latest technologies and industry trends.

At the scene of the meeting, Huawei, Tide, Solidum, Armor, Dell, Huirong Technology and other manufacturers all displayed their innovative technologies and products.

On the booth of Huirong Technology and Baocun Technology, a subsidiary specializing in enterprise-class storage, you can see the industry's first ZNS (Zone Namespaces) SSD product with QLC flash memory. With the blessing of SM8366 PCIe Gen5x4 master chip, the continuous reading speed can reach 14066MB/s. At the same time, Huirong Technology also demonstrated a new algorithm for QoS isolation of enterprise SSD based on PerformaShape ™technology in its MonTitan ™development platform.

The demo data show that using SM8366 U.2 SSD with bandwidth up to 13GB/s can achieve performance isolation between the four Namespace, matching the maximum bandwidth performance of 6GB/s, 4GB/s, 2GB/s and 1GB/s, respectively, and the performance of each space is very stable.

During the communication with the staff at the booth of Huirong Technology Group, we learned that MonTitan ™is a development platform designed to support data center and enterprise SSD storage applications. The platform includes innovative form factor reference design kits such as SM8366 PCIe Gen5 x4 SSD master chip ASIC, U.2 traditional size specifications and EDSFF E.1S/E3.S, as well as a newly designed hierarchical firmware architecture for enterprise applications to meet the requirements of future standards with a high degree of flexibility and customizability.

The SM8366 used in MonTitan ™is a dual-port PCIe Gen5x4 master chip with 16 built-in NAND channels, which can provide up to 14 GB/s continuous read speed and 3.0m / 2.8m IPOS random read speed.

The reason why the reference kit support provided by the MonTitan ™platform requires the development of a new development platform MonTitan ™, Mr. Jiang Hai, vice president of product research and development of Baocun Technology, said in the main forum: "the data center is no longer 'simple' and enterprise storage has become" difficult ". The diversity of data applications brings the trend of subdivision, and each terminal segment needs specific functions and innovative architecture. At the same time, a series of difficulties brought about by the constantly updated industry specifications, such as the feature set, QoS isolation under multi-Namespace, the form factor that takes into account both performance and power consumption, the iterative transition of NAND and DDR technology, and the development process, all bring new challenges to the design of enterprise-class SSD products, and MonTitan ™is the key to solve these problems. "

"in particular, the layered firmware architecture in the MonTitan ™platform accelerates the development of enterprise SSD." Mr. Jiang Hai added. Hierarchical firmware architecture divides SSD firmware into hardware abstraction layer, Turnkey SSD application layer and SSD firmware customization layer, so that firmware components with different functions and levels can be developed and integrated more modularly.

In this way, data center or enterprise SSD vendors can quickly select and configure appropriate firmware modules according to their specific needs and application scenarios, without having to develop all the content from scratch, which not only improves efficiency, but also maintains the flexibility of SSD. The ZNS SSD of the industry's first QLC flash memory shown above is also available quickly because of the layered firmware architecture.

In today's digital economy era, the value of data has been rapidly excavated and applied. Huirong Technology Group has been serving the Chinese market with industry expertise and rich custom development experience, helping enterprises to make better use of data. The new MonTitan ™platform starts from SSD development problems and enterprise requirements, and provides a number of key technologies and development support to help enterprises make full use of data. It is believed that in the future, Huirong Technology Group will continue to provide excellent support and services for enterprises in the Chinese market to meet the needs of the rapid development of the digital economy.

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