Marvell

An industry leader in the disk drive controller market, Marvell is uniquely positioned to provide performance solutions to the fast growing solid-state drive (SSD) market. The emerging SSD market is quickly generating new products and numerous opportunities for both the makers and users of storage, offering many advantages to the consumer, mobile, and enterprise markets. With its innovative and scalable embedded processors that deliver high performance with low-cost and power efficiency, Marvell is able to address the entire SSD marketplace:

Processors

Marvell's Central Processing Unit (CPU) technology is at the heart of our SSD SOCs. Marvell's CPU technology is compliant with the ARM instruction set, which is supported by a global ecosystem of developers and engineers. As one of a few select companies to hold a full ARM architecture license, Marvell is uniquely positioned to leverage the pervasiveness of the ARM architecture. Marvell's superscalar, dual-issue, out-of-order execution CPUs are among the most advanced in the world. They contain advanced three-level branch prediction, a variable stage pipeline, and an integrated memory controller, providing unmatched high-end performance and meeting low-power consumption requirements.

Transceivers

Marvell's high performance transceivers support SATA, SAS, USB, PCIe, and Fibre Channel SSD interfaces. This highly flexible technology offers high noise tolerance and low jitter with minimal power consumption. Plus, Marvell's many years of experience in the design of transceiver technology ensures a high level of compatibility in all applications.

Cryptographic Engines

Due to government regulations and a high concern about data security, nearly all SSDs need to support on-drive encryption. Marvell's cryptographic solution is comprised of high-speed AES engines for encryption of data-at-rest, and a hardware cryptographic module that provides a secure and flexible environment for implementing various data access control standards, including TCG and IEEE.