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MOSAID Technologies

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
MOSAID mentions in SSD market history

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 adding their own SSD controllers.

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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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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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