Paper Title: Low-Power Design of SSDs

Paper Abstract: Low-power design remains an important issue throughout the flash industry. In portable and mobile systems, lower power consumption means less-frequent charging and longer battery life. In enterprise storage systems, low-power SSDs mean lower energy bills, less cooling requirements, and less danger of overheating in cases, racks, and cabinets. The energy savings can be considerable in large systems. Lower power also means systems can use smaller, cheaper power supplies. Methods for reducing power usage in SATA systems have been available for a long time. The newer PCIe/NVMe specs have low power modes. There are also lower-power types of flash and low-power controllers. A case history with data analysis illustrates the results obtained by combining many common approaches.

Paper Author: Daniel Sun, ,

Author Bio: Daniel Sun is a design verification director at Starblaze Technology. He now leads the whole DV team on all IP/SOC DV work and DV flow/strategy evolution. And he is studying the computing storage technical trend which includes the KV storage and AI storage. He was previously principle DV engineer at Memblaze Technology. Before that he was the Verification & Methodology manager at Pixelworks, and delivered one video SOC IP to Marvell alone and another SOC to Apple by two peoples' cooperation. He used to be SOC build lead at AMD who is in charge of the largest GPU chip SOC integration. He had over 10+ successful MP chips experience with rich low power design verification knowledge. He got the Bachelor Degree on Information Engineering and Master Degree on Embedded System and Integrate Circuit Design from Tongji University (Shanghai, China)