NVMe Controller Core IP (Compliant to NVMe 1.4)
Overview
YEESTOR’s NVMe controller core (Meissa) is compliant with NVM Express 1.4 specification and targeted for both enterprise and client SSD markets. It is a highly hardware automated design that requires minimum SW/FW involvement from the CPU. It supports out of order IO read data transfer and can boost the IOPS performance and minimize the latency of SSD controllers. The end-to-end data protection and the error handling mechanism of Meissa enable the robust and reliable SSD controller designs. Meissa is designed with scalability in mind and can easily support throughput up to 32GB/s. Meissa is also highly flexible and can be configured to fit in the requirements of different applications. Meissa is delivered with a complete development package for the ease of use in both FPGA and SoC design.
Key Features
- Compliant to NVMe 1.4
- Support up to 256 functions for SRIOV or physical functions
- Support up to 512 namespaces
- Support dual ports
- Support up to 512 queue pairs
- Support up to 4096 outstanding commands
- Maximum 64K submission queues entries per submission queue
- Maximum 64K completion queues entries per completion queue
- Support out-of-order IO read data from flash to host
- Support out-of-order IO write command execution
- Support Metadata Pointer (MPTR) for +8 and +16
- Support IO determination
- Weighted round robin with urgent priority class command arbitration
- Support PRP and SGL IO command sets
- Support E2E data and control path protection
- Maximum memory page size of 64KB
- Minimum memory page size of 4KB
- Support T10-DIF
- Support MSI, MSI-X, and legacy interrupt
- Support interrupt coalescing
- Support LBA size 512B, 4096B
- Support HMB
- Support CMB
- Support PCIe dual port
- Pass UNH-IOL compliance test
Benefits
- Time-to-Market
- Pass UNH-IOL compliance test
Block Diagram
Applications
- PCIe-NVMe Client SSD Controller
- PCIe-NVMe Enterprise SSD Controller
- PCIe-NVMe Data Center SSD Controller
Deliverables
- RTL code for both ASIC and FPGA
- Verilog direct test verification environment
- Synthesis script for Synopsys Design Compiler and Xilinx FPGA
- NVMe reference firmware
- Documentation
- Datasheet
- Integration guide
- Programming guide
- Register specifications
Technical Specifications
Foundry, Node
7nm, 12nm, 28nm, 40nm
Maturity
In production
Availability
available (NVMe 2.0 is coming soon)
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- NVM Express (NVMe) Controller (compliant with NVMe 1.4 Base Specification)
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- NVMe Host Controller
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