Flashtec^® NVMe^® Controllers

The Flashtec NVMe 5016 controller is designed to support enterprise applications such as online transaction processing, financial data processing, database mining and other applications that are sensitive to latency and performance. It serves growing Artificial Intelligence (AI) needs with high throughput for reading and writing large data sets used in model training and inference processing and provides the high bandwidth necessary to move large volumes of data quickly between storage and compute resources.

Flashtec NVMe 5016 SSD controllers leverage existing firmware and features from previous generations of this family, offering you the flexibility and confidence to implement a proven platform, reducing your development risk and effort and accelerating time to market.

Features

• Up to 3.5 million random read IOPS on 4 KB operations
• Bandwidths of more than 14 GBps
• PCIe Gen 5 ×4 or dual independent PCIe Gen 5 ×2 (active, active/standby) host interface compliant with PCIe 5.0 base specification and NVMe 2.0+ protocol
• Enables multiple form factors including E3, U.2, U.3, and PCIe add-in cards
• SLC, MLC, Enterprise MLC, TLC and QLC Flash with toggle and ONFI interface supporting up to 3200 MT/s
• Zoned Namespace (ZNS) capable
• Supports Flexible Data Placement (FDP)
• 16 independent Flash channels
• Supports up to four ranks of DDR5-5200
• Industry-leading security and encryption, including PCIe lane encryption, single-chip hardware root of trust and FIPS 140-3 Level 2 compliance
• Data integrity and reliability
  • Strong LDPC Flash ECC
  • Flash channel RAID
  • End-to-end data protection
• Innovative Machine Learning (ML) technology
• Advanced virtualization with multiple physical functions support

Our fourth-generation Flashtec NVMe 4016 enterprise SSD controller addresses the market demand for next-generation Solid-State Drives (SSDs), delivering throughput greater than 14 GB per second and over 3 million Input/Output Operations Per Second (IOPS), cloud-ready features and the security needed to create cutting-edge platforms.

Features

• 16 high-speed programmable NAND Flash channels capable of delivering up to 2400 MT/s while utilizing full PCIe Gen 5 × 4-speed bandwidth
• Advanced Credit Management technology that offers the stringent Quality of Service (QoS) required by today’s cloud-focused data center applications
• PCIe link encryption, dual signature authentication and Trusted Platform support that meet all critical storage and enterprise application security needs
• Advanced virtualization capabilities that enable the large-scale deployment of Virtual Machines (VMs) and Physical Functions (PFs) per port for the most efficient utilization of PCIe resources
• Programmable Machine Learning (ML) engine capable of a variety of pattern recognition and classification functions that are employed in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and ML applications for maximum performance and cost benefits
• Compliance to NVMe 2.0 to support the latest storage and performance compute applications, including Zoned Name Spaces (ZNS) and cloud Open Compute Platform (OCP)

• Offers PCIe Gen 4 ×8 or dual independent PCIe Gen 4 ×4 (active, active/standby) host interface
• Provides 16 independent Flash channels, each supporting up to 16 Chip Enables (CEs)
• Delivers 2M IOPs
• Supports greater than 200 TB Flash capacity

• Offers PCIe Gen 4×4 or dual independent PCIe Gen 4×2 (active/active or active/standby) host interface
• Provides eight independent Flash channels, each supporting up to 16 Chip Enables (CEs)
• Delivers 1M IOPs
• Capable of greater than 64 TB Flash capacity