Microsemi announces the industry's highest performance enterprise Gen 4 PCIe controller samples

A wholly-owned subsidiary of Microsemi, Inc. – announced that it has provided samples of the new Flashtec NVMe 3016 Gen 4 PCIe controller to early adopter customers. The NVMe 3016 is the industry's first enterprise-class controller of its kind, offering 8 per second. The throughput above GB and the performance of more than 2 million input and output operations (IOPS) per second can meet the market demand for high reliability, high performance PCIe Gen 4 NVMe Solid State Drive (SSD).

This device provides end-to-end enterprise-class data integrity, supporting next-generation Layer 3 (TLC) for high-growth storage endpoint markets targeting data centers, servers and storage through high reliability and extreme RAID and ECC. And four-level cell (QLC) NAND technology. Its flexibility and programmability give users the opportunity to uniquely optimize their applications for NVMe, key-value (KV) and open channel (Open Channel SSDs). The SSD solution, in addition, its programmable flash channel controller interface enables customers to address multiple generations of NAND technology to meet future needs.

The Microsemitech Flashtec NVMe 3016 controller features the latest security, encryption, virtualization and high availability support to deliver state-of-the-art enterprise features beyond the NVMe 1.3 protocol. Flashtec firmware development acceleration tools include silicon-independent and firmware development and Debugged architecture simulator for rapid design of PCIe Gen 4 NVMe SSDs. As a third-generation Flashtec enterprise-class NVMe controller, the NVMe 3016 controller allows customers to reuse firmware developed for earlier devices, along with NVMe evaluation boards and supplemental software Development Kit (SDK).

The Microsemitech Flashtec NVMe 3016 is part of a complete end-to-end solution for PCIe Gen 4 storage infrastructure and endpoint solutions.