LSI Introduces Industry's First 40nm Serial PHY for Notebook, Desktop and Enterprise Hard Disk Drives
September 23 2009 - 8:30AM
PR Newswire (US)
New TrueStore PHY9500 provides single solution across all major
hard disk drive and solid state drive interface standards MILPITAS,
Calif., Sept. 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- LSI Corporation
(NYSE:LSI) today announced that it has begun shipping samples of
the industry's first 40-nanometer multi-interface physical layer
(PHY) IP designed for notebook, desktop and enterprise hard disk
drive (HDD) market segments. The LSI(TM) TrueStore PHY9500 provides
drive makers with a single solution for integration into
system-on-a-chip (SoC) designs across all major HDD and solid-state
drive (SSD) markets, supporting the 6Gb/s SAS, 6Gb/s SATA and
4.25Gb/s Fibre Channel interface standards. Drive manufacturers who
integrate the PHY9500 into their SoCs should benefit from reduced
validation and development costs, lower risks and an accelerated
time to market. The TrueStore PHY9500 also can enable enterprise
SSD designs to unlock the full performance benefit of the SAS
interface. "LSI continues to blaze the 40nm trail as part of our
total recording system design, which includes the recently
introduced RC9500 low-density parity check (LDPC) read channel,"
said Phil Brace, senior vice president, Storage Peripherals
Division, LSI. "The versatility of the PHY9500 allows drive makers
to benefit by only having a single part to qualify. This opens the
door to significant cost savings and allows customers to focus on
system-level design." The PHY9500 reduces transmit jitter by up to
30 percent, providing improved signal performance as compared to
the previous generation. Receiver performance has been enhanced
with an advanced adaptive equalization scheme, improving
signal-to-noise performance regardless of the signal path between
host and drive. System analysis is also simplified with advanced
test features including an "eye-scope" feature which enables
greater visibility into the receiver's performance, allowing drive
makers to debug their systems without requiring expensive test
equipment. Customers integrating the PHY9500 into their storage
SoCs should also realize area and power savings. The PHY9500 offers
1-lane and 2-lane configurations for reduced chip footprint, and
supports multiple power management features for improved SoC
efficiencies by utilizing power benefits offered by 40nm
technology. The PHY9500 supports low-cost wirebond and flip-chip
packages to meet the low-cost requirements of high-volume HDD SoCs.
The LSI TrueStore family of ICs for hard disk, tape and solid-state
drive components include highly integrated, high-performance
storage SoCs, read channels, preamplifiers, serial PHYs and hard
disk drive controller IP. By offering a broad portfolio of
integrated SoC solutions, LSI enables its customers to address all
segments of the HDD market from mission-critical enterprise
applications and high-capacity desktop PCs to low-power laptops and
a variety of consumer electronic devices. The TrueStore PHY9500 is
available now to qualified customers. About LSI LSI Corporation
(NYSE:LSI) is a leading provider of innovative silicon, systems and
software technologies that enable products which seamlessly bring
people, information and digital content together. The company
offers a broad portfolio of capabilities and services including
custom and standard product ICs, adapters, systems and software
that are trusted by the world's best known brands to power leading
solutions in the Storage and Networking markets. More information
is available at http://www.lsi.com/. Editor's Notes: 1. All LSI
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