EpoStar’s Orion EP160 SSD Controller is designed and optimized for client SSD market. With two-lane PCIe 3.0 and four-channel high speed NAND Flash Interface, it delivers excellent IO performance, low power, and good reliability. User data integrity and Flash error correction are assured by full end-to-end data protection and a powerful ECC engine. The Orion comes with two TFBGA packages. One supports four-channel NAND Flash and DDR interface for SSD demanding high performance and big capacity. The other package removes DDR interface and targets low-cost DRAM-less SSD market with support of Host Memory Buffer defined in the NVMe v1.2 specification.
+ 2-lane PCIe 3.0
+ DDR3/DDR3L up to 1GB
+ 4 Flash channels with 8 CEs per channel
+ Comply with NVMe v1.2
+ Support SR-IOV 1 Virtual Function, and 1 Physical Function
+ Support 1 to 8 Namespaces
+ Up to 2TB capacity per Namespace
+ Support SLC/MLC/TLC/3D NAND Flash, up to 533MT/sec
+ BCH/LDPC/Raid for Flash error correction
+ AES256, SHA, and PKE
+ Full End-to-End Data Protection
+ Support DRAM-less by Host Memory Buffer
+ Support Option ROM
+ Performance
● 1.6 GB/sec Sequential Read
● 1.2 GB/sec Sequential Write
● 200K Read IOPS
● 180K Write IOPS
+ Low Power
● Active power < 2W
● L1.2 power < 2mW
+ Reference Design Kit available