PCI Express-Based NVMe Solid State Disk
Ji Jun Hung, Kai Bu, Zhao Lin Sun, Jie Tao Diao, Jian Bin Liu · Applied Mechanics and Materials · 2013
This paper presents a new architecture SSD based on NVMe (Non-Volatile Memory express) protocol. The NVMe SSD promises to solve the conventional SATA and SAS interface bottleneck. Its aimed to present a PCIe NAND Flash memory card that uses NAND Flash memory chip as the storage media. The paper analyzes the PCIe protocol and the characteristics of SSD controller, and then gives the detailed design of the PCIe SSD. It mainly contains the PCIe port and Flash Translation Layer.