Alibaba Group Holding Limited
ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN OF A STORAGE DEVICE CONTROLLER FOR HYPERSCALE INFRASTRUCTURE

Abstract:

An apparatus is provided to facilitate a hyperscale infrastructure. The apparatus comprises a non-volatile memory and a controller. The controller comprises: a memory interface coupled to a first memory; a media interface coupled to the non-volatile memory; a media controller associated with the media interface; a hardware accelerator configured to process, via the memory interface, data to be written to the non-volatile memory; and a reprogrammable hardware component configured to further process the data via the memory interface. The media controller is configured to write, via the media interface, the data to the non-volatile memory system.