FLASH-BASED STORAGE SYSTEM INCLUDING RECONFIGURABLE CIRCUITRY

摘要

Apparatus and method for accelerating processing operations of flash based storage systems are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, an IC component disposed between I/O circuitry and flash storage devices is configured to optimize fulfillment of data read and write requests originating from a network or device external to the flash based storage system using cache memory before involving the flash storage devices.

主权项

1. A system comprising:
input/output (I/O) circuitry; at least one processor; an array of flash storage devices; at least one cache memory; and an integrated circuit (IC) component, the IC component disposed between the I/O circuitry and the array of flash storage devices, and the IC component coupled to each of the processor and the cache memory, wherein the IC component handles processing of data read and write requests sent from an external network and received by the I/O circuitry, and wherein a cache control included in the IC component optimizes fulfilling each of the data read and write requests using the cache memory before accessing the array of flash storage devices.