BiTMICRO Networks Partners with ChipX on Development of Next Generation Storage ASICs

By providing the best path to production volume, ChipX Structured ASICs will allow BiTMICRO Networks to reach the market with rugged, low-power and high-performance storage devices at the shortest possible time.

“ChipX Structured ASICs have served me well in the past and these new devices are continuing that experience. ChipX provides engineering support at a real time pace that is essential as requirements evolve. As often happens, midway through a project, the design grows with new features. Thanks to the full range of slice options offered by ChipX, we are able to move up to the next larger slice with minimal cost impact,” says Rey Bruce, BiTMICRO CEO. “Their technical capabilities are also key. Our products have aggressive requirements that only ChipX was able to meet in volume production,” Bruce further explains.

We are pleased to work with BiTMICRO in the development of their next generation ASICs, said Elie Massabki, Vice President of Marketing for ChipX. ChipX Structured ASICs are rigorously tested to perform well in the harsh environments that BiTMICRO’s storage devices serve. The rugged reliability BiTMICRO offers is demanded by many mission-critical applications in the industrial, embedded, computer, communication, medical, military, and aerospace industries.

The Enhanced Datamover and Storage Accelerator (EDSA) direct memory controller is a proprietary controller that succeeds the highly successful disk controller chipset of BiTMICRO’s electronic disk technology. The EDSA supports large block NAND flash as well as single, dual, quad-die flash devices, allowing BiTMICRO to hike E-Disk solid state disk capacities to terabytes of pure flash memory.

EDSA goes hand in hand with the Logical Unifier of Extensive Transfer Arrays (LUNETA), BiTMICRO’s proprietary flash memory management interface controller that is designed to orchestrate massively parallel and multi-block I/O operations on large arrays of flash devices. LUNETA supports both NAND (SLC or MLC) and AND types of flash memory and is typically used in designs to complement the EDSA in applications that require scalability and management of larger amounts of flash devices.