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Global Unichip Corp, founded in 1998, and with headquarters in
Hsinchu, Taiwan, is a dedicated full service SoC Design Foundry.
GUC has established a global customer base throughout Greater China, Japan,
Korea, North America, and Europe. Its track-record in complex SoC designs has
brought benefits to customers in time to revenue at the lowest risk.
- editor's comments:- in November 2009 - Global Unichip
announced mass-production of its
ARM7-based
GP5080
series SSD SoC
platform for portable consumer electronics products.
There are 2
different models in this series.
GP5080 is optimized for cost sensitive
applications by removing the need for external DRAM cache (skinny SSDs),
while GP5086 supports DRAM cache for (regular SSD)
applications needing extra extended lifetime (write attenuation).
The complete GP5080 design kit includes SoC samples, evaluation board, reference
design. With the GP5080 series solution,
SSD makers or system
providers can provide quality products for customers with substantially reduced
development cost and time-to-market.
GP5080 series solution is a highly integrated SSD SoC, based on
advanced 90nm process technology. Its architecture has been optimized to fully
utilize the maximum data transfer of NAND flash with minimum operating power.
The 4 independent flash channels deliver excellent sequential and random R/W
performance and support all major vendors’ SLC/MLC NAND
flash devices. The
SSD data integrity
is guaranteed by the on-chip hardware BCH-ECC engine which can correct up to 16
bit errors per 512 byte data.
The 32-bit ARM7 processor will provide
high computing capability for advanced SSD management firmware such as Flash
Translation Layer, Bad Block Management,
Wear Leveling
Algorithm, Power Fail Recycling, SMART function, Disk Recovery/ROM Disk,
etc. In addition, it supports PATA and
SATA2 dual interface
to provide extra flexibility and wide temperature range from -40°C to 85°C
for industrial grade applications.
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