Date: 19/03/2012

6Gb/s SATA controller IC for solid state memory storage

Marvell has announced mass deployment of its IC 88SS9187 SATA controller. The 88SS9187 features a 6 gigabit-per-second (Gb/s) SATA Revision 3.1 compliant host interface optimized for the fast-growing solid state drive (SSD) sector.

Marvell's newest SSD controller features high-speed NAND Flash interface up to 200MB/s per channel. The 88SS9187 also offers correction capability through its ECC engine with Adaptive Read and Write Scheme and on-chip RAID functionality.

"We continue to drive market-leading innovation in our SATA technology products, as seen with today's launch of the 88SS9187 SATA controller powered by high performance embedded processor technology," said Alan Armstrong, vice president of Marketing for the Storage Business Group at Marvell Semiconductor, Inc. "The best-in-class, open architecture of the device allows SSD manufacturers to fully customize their products to meet specific customer demands and distinguish their products based on price, performance, power and functionality. Marvell is thrilled to be leading the industry with our advanced SSD acceleration technology, which is enabling our partners to take their products to the next level."

The 88SS9187 is designed to meet low power consumption needs of ultrabook computers and also for consumer technology.

Other distinguishing features of Marvell's third-generation SATA 6 Gb/s SSD controller include:
Supports on-chip RAID technology for the NAND device with flexible customer firmware based algorithm to optimize retiring of defective NAND block, plane, die or device.
Supports high-speed DDR3 DRAM interface with support for up to 1 G byte memory that permits customer to implement highly performance optimized mapping algorithms.
Maximum sequential read performance for a SATA 6G device.
~500MB/s of sequential write performance even at dirty drive conditions.
Best-in-class Random Read and Write IOPS with minimum over-provisioning and minimal performance degradation.