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MOSAID Technologies Inc. is one of the world’s leading
intellectual property management companies. MOSAID monetizes patented
intellectual property in the areas of semiconductors and communications, and
develops semiconductor memory technology. MOSAID counts many of the world's
largest technology companies among its licensees. Founded in 1975, MOSAID has
offices in Ottawa, Ontario, Plano, Texas and Luxembourg. MOSAID was taken
private in Dec. 2011 in a transaction led by Sterling Partners. For more
information, please visit www.mosaid.com
see also:-
MOSAID
- editor mentions on StorageSearch.com
- editor's comments:- April 2012
MOSAID Technologies
designs
SSD SoC / IP technology
- which can be used by oems to design SSDs. Their market focus seems to be
towards the "fastest"
end of the flash SSD spectrum. For example their HyperLink technology could
enable SSD oems to design faster upgradable PCIe SSDs
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In May 2007 - MOSAID announced its architecture (available
for license) could deliver 800M bytes/ second sustained throughput on
flash SSDs using
today's technology.
In July 2009 - MOSAID published a white
paper -
Implementing
Storage Class Memory with HLNAND (pdf) - which describes how their HyperLink
technology can achieve 1GB/s R and W throughput in a terabyte flash array
occupying only 60cm2 of motherboard. It also provides the flexibility for the
oem to populate the module with more memory after soldering. This tool might be
useful for designers of PCIe
or InfiniBand class
SSD accelerators.
In July 2011 -
MOSAID Technologies said
it will sample silicon based on its
HLNAND2 specification in
late 2011. Using a high-speed, point-to-point ring topology, HLNAND2
facilitates SSD development with data transfer rates into the multiple
Gigabyte-per-second range.
In comparison, NAND Flash interfaces
based on a parallel bus structure are limited to transfer rates of up to
200MB/s, with only a few devices supported on each channel. The company's
HLNAND 256Gb Flash memory device is packaged as an MCP composed of a stack of 9
dies - 8 industry-standard NAND Flash chips, and 1 MOSAID proprietary ASIC. The
design supports either monolithic 32Gb MLC Toggle Mode or 32Gb MLC legacy
asynchronous NAND Flash chips, evenly distributed over 4 banks.
In
April 2012 - MOSAID
Technologies
announced
that it is sampling a 16 die NAND flash stack integrated with its
HLNAND bridge interface
in a single 100-ball BGA measuring 18mm x 14mm - which provides 512GB raw
capacity and 667MB/s aggregate simultaneous R/W throughput as a building block
for use by SSD oems to build multi-terabyte SSDs with GB/s throughput by
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| the 3 fastest flash
PCIe SSDs - list / lists |
Are you tied up in
knots trying to shortlist flash SSD accelerators ranked according to
published comparative benchmarks?
You know the sort of thing I mean -
where a magazine compares 10 SSDs or a blogger compares 2 SSDs against each
other. It would be nice to have a shortlist so that you don't have to waste too
much of your own valuable time testing unsuitable candidates wouldn't it?
StorageSearch's long running
fastest SSDs directory
typically indicates 1 main product in each form factor category but those
examples may not be compatible with your own ecosystem.
If so a
new article -
the 3 fastest PCIe
SSDs list (or is it really lists?) may help you cut that Gordian
knot. Hmm... you may be thinking that StorageSearch's editor never gives easy
answers to SSD questions if more complicated ones are available.
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But in this case you'd be
wrong. (I didn't say you'd like the answers, though.) ...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. |
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