Date: 14/07/2010

RAID IP cores from Silicon Image for consumer electronics application

Silicon Image has made available a new IP core based on its SteelVine Series 3 Core technology for SATA storage processors. The IP core is a low-cost solution supporting RAID0, RAID1 and JBOD for consumer electronics (CE) storage applications.

The key applications for the RAID IP core include external storage enclosures, system boards, backup storage, PC motherboards, flash storage, surveillance DVR, media services and high-end set-top-boxes (STBs).

The key features of SteelVine IP core are:

1. FAST (RAID 0)-- to automatically enhance performance (2X speed).
2. SAFE (RAID 1)-- for automatic back-up/mirror capabilities.
3. JBOD (SATA port multiplier)-- one host port, and two device ports (1:2).
4. In RAID0, RAID1 or RAID10 modes, cascading the IP block enables support for up to 4 drives.

"Sophisticated RAID capabilities are now migrating to consumer applications, however, complex software is inhibiting wide spread use," said Ron Richter, director worldwide IP core licensing at Silicon Image, Inc. "SteelVine technology IP cores provide RAID0 and RAID1 functionality-significantly reducing CPU processing while delivering 2X storage performance or automatic back up without requiring any software installation or support."

For more information visit: http://www.siliconimage.com