Invention Grant
- Patent Title: SSD architecture for FPGA based acceleration
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Application No.: US16124183Application Date: 2018-09-06
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Publication No.: US10592443B2Publication Date: 2020-03-17
- Inventor: Ramdas P. Kachare , Fred Worley
- Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Applicant Address: KR
- Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: KR
- Agency: Renaissance IP Law Group LLP
- Main IPC: G06F13/42
- IPC: G06F13/42 ; G06F13/16 ; G06F13/40

Abstract:
A system is disclosed. The system may include a processor running an application program and a memory storing data being used by the application program. An upstream port enables communication with the processor; a downstream port enables communication with a storage device. The system may also include an acceleration module implemented using hardware and including an Acceleration Platform Manager (APM-F) to execute an acceleration instruction. The storage device may include an endpoint of the storage device for communicating with the acceleration module, a controller to manage operations of the storage device, storage for application data for the application program, and a storage device Acceleration Platform Manager (APM-S) to assist the APM-F in executing the acceleration instruction. A downstream filter associated with the downstream port may intercept an acceleration instruction associated with a downstream Filter Address Range (FAR) received from the storage device and deliver the acceleration instruction to the APM-F, the acceleration instruction being. The processor, the acceleration module, and the storage device may communicate via a Peripheral Component Interconnect Exchange (PCIe) bus. The acceleration module may support performing the acceleration instruction on the application data on the storage device for the application program without loading the application data into the memory.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190272242A1 NOVEL SSD ARCHITECTURE FOR FPGA BASED ACCELERATION Public/Granted day:2019-09-05
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