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Denali Software

Denali Software, Inc., is a world-leading provider of electronic design automation (EDA) software and intellectual property (IP) for system-on-chip (SoC) design and verification. Denali delivers the industry's most trusted solutions for deploying PCI Express, USB, NAND Flash and DDR DRAM subsystems. Developers use Denali's EDA, IP and services to reduce risk and speed time-to-market for electronic system and chip design. Denali is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California and has offices around the world to serve the global electronics industry. More information about Denali, its products and services is available at www.denali.com.

see also:-Denali- editor mentions on STORAGEsearch.com

  • editor's comments:- August 2011 - Before it was acquired by Cadence (in June 2010) Denali used to market the FlashPoint Platform - a building block for designing PCIe SSDs. They also used to publish an excellent blog - Denali Memory Report.
will it work any better this time? - consumer bybrids
Editor:- June 3, 2010 - Denali Software is named as a possible savior of the hybrid drive concept in a white paper by Objective Analysis - Flash Cache is Back (pdf) - which predicts all computing platforms will soon employ a cache layer between the HDD and the DRAM

Author Jim Handy says projections from notebook SSD makers that SSDs would already have replaced tens of millions of HDDs were over optimistic and may "never happen". Instead he says a flash cache, supported by a properly designed SSD ASAP controller "will provide near-SSD performance at near-HDD prices".

Early implementations of such flash cache schemes - cited in the article - didn't work properly.

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What's the best way to design a flash SSD?
and other questions which divide SSD opinion

More than 10 key areas of fundamental disagreement within the SSD industry are discussed in an article here on StorageSearch.com called the the SSD Heresies.
click to read the article - the SSD Heresies ... Why can't SSD's true believers agree upon a single coherent vision for the future of solid state storage? ...read the article
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Surviving SSD sudden power loss
Why should you care what happens in an SSD when the power goes down?

This important design feature - which barely rates a mention in most SSD datasheets and press releases - has a strong impact on SSD data integrity and operational reliability.

This article will help you understand why some SSDs which (work perfectly well in one type of application) might fail in others... even when the changes in the operational environment appear to be negligible.
image shows Megabyte's hot air balloon - click to read the article SSD power down architectures and acharacteristics If you thought endurance was the end of the SSD reliability story - think again. ...read the article
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