Data Center Systems – Storage Systems

Reusable low-cost control PLD solution for reduced time-to-market

Reliable Startup Control in Storage System Boards – Non-volatile, instant-on, lowest cost per I/O, feature-rich MachXO3 FPGA family offers a wide range of single, dual, quadruple and 8-socket CPU boards for server, storage and networking systems. MachXO2/3 devices are the first devices to power-on the board and orchestrate the power delivery to all devices. These devices also integrate multiple control busses on the board such as SPI, I2C, SGPIO and reduce the number of pins needed on PCH and BMC.

Eliminate Data Loss Due to Power Fail – Power failure early warning through precision voltage monitoring; integrated voltage, current and temperature monitoring, and measurement functions of hardware management logic using L-ASC10. Real-time fault logging capability simplifies hardware debug.

Small Form-Factor, Low-Cost Options for Integrating I2C Buffers, Glue Logic and Level Translators – MachXO2 products, available in TQFP and QFN packages, provide the lowest-cost-to-manufacture options for auto-configure HDD, SSD and NVMe drives in hot swappable appliance backplanes. These devices also reduce the number of pins on the connector, while simplifying the interface to monitor and control drives on the backplane. MachXO2 QFN packages integrate level translating I2C buffers between CPU and DDR memories, as well as GTL transceivers.

Block Diagram

Data Systems - Storage Systems

  • Control and Protection
  • Standard scalable hardware management (power & thermal management, Control PLD, Glue logic)
  • Reliable data loss prevention during power off
  • Hitless in-system update support

Example Solutions

Control PLD

  • Power and reset sequencing, thermal management
  • Out-of-band signaling aggregation including 1V signals from CPU
  • Glue logic (SPI, I2C, UART, GPIO, SGPIO, fan controller, debug port, JTAG Mux, etc.)
  • Modify algorithms without power-cycling using hitless updates

Hot Swappable HDD/FD/ NVMe Drive Backplane Controller

  • Auto selection of control port from I2C, SGPIO between HDD/FD/NVMe drives
  • Scalable solution from 2 drives to 24 drives
  • Automatic color LED/ monochrome LED drive support
  • On-chip Flash and EBR for FRU data store

Host Bus Adapter Logic Integration

  • Integrate SGPIO and other out-of-band signaling
  • Power/reset sequencing and other control PLD functions, fast supply fault detect, initiate status save
  • On-chip Flash for fault logging, LED drives
  • In-system update through I2C with hitless I/O support

Analog Monitoring

  • Voltage, temperature and current measurement
  • Scalable solution from 10 rails to 80 rails with fault detection within 100 us with 0.2% accuracy
  • Fault logging in non-volatile memory

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