Date: 01/07/2010

LSI and Seagate come together to develop HDD products

LSI and Seagate together develop a complex integrated read channel technology for Seagate's hard disk drive (HDD) products. The companies have enabled hard disk drives with low-density parity check (LDPC) read channel in 65nm process system-on-chip (SoC) technology.

These HDD products combine Seagate LDPC digital back-end read channel and hard drive controller IP with LSI analog front-end read channel (RC) and physical layer (PHY) technology (TrueStore RC8000 and PHY8000). The combined LDPC read channel has been incorporated into high-capacity SoC solutions.

"The long-standing relationship between Seagate and LSI has delivered innovative, best-in-class solutions over many technology generations," said Cecil Macgregor, vice president of VLSI development, Seagate Technology. "We continue this trend with the delivery of innovative HDDs based on the industry's first 65nm SoC utilizing LDPC read channel technology."

"Enabling faster, higher-capacity disk drives that consume less power is essential to end users, server and storage providers and HDD manufacturers," said Phil Brace, senior vice president and general manager, Storage Peripherals Division, LSI. "Together, LSI and Seagate are driving areal density improvements and raising the bar for HDD capacity and performance."