Innovations

Indilinx was founded on the basic premise that creating the most compelling NAND flash storage solutions requires a holistic approach in designing hardware and software. Numerous factors impact the real-world performance, reliability, efficiency, and cost of a storage device based on NAND flash. Indilinx has developed significant innovations to effectively manage these factors and to produce highly optimized solutions for each intended application.

Performance

  • High speed parallel data path architecture.
  • Page mapping to increase random read and write IOPS.
  • DRAM integration to boost overall system performance.
  • Support for high bandwidth NAND flash such as ONFI 2.2 and Toggle DDR.
  • HyperQueueingâ„¢ technology to enhance device utilization.
  • Read processing prioritization to maximize system throughput.
  • TRIM support.
  • User-configurable over-provisioning ratio.

Reliability

  • High reliability BCH error detection and correction codes.
  • Soft error reduction and recovery techniques.
  • Pre-emptive read refresh and data scrambling.
  • Advanced bad block management.
  • End-of-life detection and progressive wear-leveling.
  • Power loss recovery algorithms to ensure write atomicity and in-order write completion.
  • Write and verify function.

Security

  • Compliance with ATA Security Mode Feature Set.
  • AES 256 data encryption.
  • Secure erase function.

Energy Efficiency

  • Compliance with ATA Power Management.
  • Compliance with SATA Interface Power Management.
  • Configurable peak current limiter.
  • User-configurable background garbage collection.

Total Cost of Ownership

  • High IOPS performance reduces cost per I/O transaction.
  • Low power design reduces energy costs.
  • Wide support of numerous generations of single-bit and multi-bit NAND flash.
  • LongLifeâ„¢ technology to extend SSD life beyond rated limits.