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"NAND Flash systems are becoming increasingly complex as the diversity of applications drives the need for a specialized, flexible, high-performance platform solution. Current commodity solutions will not meet the future market needs."
Nam Hyung Kim
Director and Chief Analyst
iSuppli
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"As one of the initial founders of the NVMHCI working group, Microsoft always has its finger on the pulse on emerging technologies. I am pleased to see the first announced plan for implementation of the emerging industry standard. Denali has been an active participant and contributor of NVMHCI. Denali's support for NVMHCI with this platform should enable system performance and feature enhancements. It is our belief that Flash will have a significant impact to the PC and other system architectures."
James Borden
Industry Strategist
Microsoft
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"The NAND Flash industry has evolved so far that no longer can an OEM easily integrate raw NAND with their own proprietary controller in the new Flash-enabled applications. Denali's release of FlashPoint NAND Flash platform enables OEMs to build NAND-based applications by integrating a modular or plug-n-play FlashPoint NAND Flash solution that now works even with the new functions of Vista like the ReadyDrive cache. This bridging function between the operating system, controller, and the Flash that Denali is now offering will be a tremendous help to the electronics industry."
Alan Niebel
CEO
Web-Feet Research
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FlashPoint Platform
The FlashPoint platform is a complete system design, providing a PCI Express (PCIe) interface to high-performance NAND Flash memory. The platform uses a unique design configuration engine that enables the system to be tuned for optimal performance with differentiating features for a range of products, including PC cache modules, solid state drives (SSD), and ExpressCard™ devices.
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The FlashPoint platform leverages Denali's proven Databahn™ IP technology for PCIe and NAND Flash in an advanced hardware architecture, built from the ground up for high-performance and high reliability. An advanced configuration infrastructure automates the process for tuning and verifying the design for application specific performance, and speeds overall deployment time.
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FlashPoint supports the emerging Non-Volatile Memory Host Controller Interface (NVMHCI) standard, an effort led by Dell, Intel, and Microsoft, which provides a standard software programming interface for nonvolatile memory subsystems. The NVMHCI interface is used by operating system drivers to access NAND Flash memory storage in applications such as hard drive caching and solid-state drives. One such example is the ReadyBoost™ and ReadyDrive™ features of the Windows Vista® operating system, which would use the NVMHCI interface to speed PC system performance and reduce overall power consumption. FlashPoint provides a complete HW/SW solution for high-performance NVMHCI-based flash cache products.
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The ExpressCard standard is the next generation of PC Card technology used in more than 95% of all notebook computers for adding new hardware capabilities. The ExpressCard Standard was created by a broad coalition of PCMCIA member companies including Dell, Hewlett Packard, IBM, Intel, Lexar Media, Microsoft, SCM Microsystems and Texas Instruments. To improve data transfer speed, ExpressCard technology supports both PCI Express (2.5Gbps) and USB (480Mbs) interfaces. The FlashPoint platform enables rapid deployment of high-performance ExpressCard products using a PCI Express interface for NAND Flash storage. Flashpoint enables a wide variety of configuration options to enable a range of NAND Flash capacity options, as well as integrated features for encryption, compression,
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SSD's (Solid-State Drives) offer significant benefits, such as increased performance and reduced power, for a growing range of markets including: mobile computing, low-cost PCs and blade servers. In general, SSD's offer significant performance gains for best-case scenarios such as sustained sequential Reads/Writes. Unfortunately, most existing SSD products suffer from poor performance for random Write data, which is often the case in real-world data traffic. FlashPoint's integrated NAND controller is a state-of-the-art subsystem designed for high-performance, and includes all necessary functionality for robust SSD applications, including: advanced wear-leveling, hardware-based ECC, encryption, compression, and more. The FlashPoint platform provides a complete HW/SW solution for PCI Express-based SSD products.
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