LAMD Launches its Award-Winning 6Gb/s SATA SSD Controller

Market experts have estimated that the solid state drive (SSD) market will witness phenomenal growth over the coming years. IDC (News - Alert) projects that global SSD shipments will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 51.5 percent from 2010 to 2015. Amid the expected growth, Link-A-Media Devices (LAMD) has launched its flagship high-performance LM87800 SATA 6G SSD controller with proprietary eBoost technology.  The new controller, which is highly-integrated device, brings enterprise-class performance and endurance enhancement to the fast growing client SSD market.

User of the LM87800 can quickly adopt the controller and bring to market leading-edge SSD products. This could be done with the support from qualified and field-proven host interface and NAND management firmware, reference designs and documentation provided along with the product. LAMD is involved in developing semiconductor SoC solutions for the data storage market.

The LM87800 allows achieving ultra-low power consumption as it is fabricated on a low-power and low-leakage process technology. The new SSD controller utilizes sophisticated power management techniques. The product is equipped with highly strong data recovery ability based on Link-A-Media Device's eBoost technology. eBoost uses proprietary adaptive signal judgment techniques along with powerful on-the-fly error correction technology.

In a press release, Dr. Hemant Thapar, CEO, Link-A-Media Devices, said, “We are very pleased to announce the availability of the LM87800, our flagship SATA SSD controller designed to deliver unsurpassed performance for PC and related applications. The feature-rich LM87800 includes our eBoost technology which significantly enhances NAND Flash endurance to enable next generation MLC Flash in enterprise-class Client SSDs.”

The LM87800 is equipped with 8 NAND channels supporting the high-speed ONFi 2.3 and Toggle 1 flash interfaces and has capability to access up to one terabyte of commodity NAND flash. At the same time, the controller also cost-effectively supporting today’s mainstream SSD capacities of 64GB, 128GB, 256GB, and 512GB. NAND flash from all major vendors including SLC, MLC and eMLC flash families could be supported by the LM87800.

Last year, LAMD announced the availability of its 6G SATA and PCIe, FlashLINK2 SSD controller technology platform. The FlashLINK2 is a highly scalable platform and supports a wide range of SSD applications ranging from two channels for Hybrid Hard Disk Drive and Consumer products to 16 channels for the enterprise segment.