MLE NVMe FPGA Full System Stack for AMD Versal AI Edge

November 11, 2024Application Notes, StorageAMD Versal, NVMe, NVMe Streaming, Storage Acceleration, Trenz

MLE NVMe FPGA Full System Stack for AMD Versal AI Edge TB20241108 Introduction When it comes to high-speed data recording, NVMe Streamer or similar NVMe IP cores are typically required to enable efficient data streaming from FPGAs to NVMe SSDs, as the onboard processors of FPGA boards are often not powerful enough. However, implementing NVMe IP cores presents challenges, particularly in handling file systems, where data read/write paths must be defined and data management gets complicated if multiple storage patterns are required. To address these needs, MLE has developed the NVMe FPGA Full System Stack for AMD Versal AI Edge FPGAs and verified the NVMe FPGA Full System Stack on Trenz TE0950 dev board. The NVMe Full System Stack enables seamless data streaming between the ARM cores on AMD Versal Edge FPGAs and NVMe SSDs via the PS PCIe Root Port. Key benefits of the AMD Versal AI Edge NVMe FPGA Full System Stack include: Support for data rates from 1 GiB/s to 5.4 GiB/s (equal to 1 GB/s to 5.8 GB/s) Support dynamic, complex file system Support complex storage patterns, enabling multiple applications to access data through a block device MLE NVMe FPGA Full System Stack MLE’s NVMe FPGA Full System Stack facilitates connectivity between the ARM Processing System on AMD

NVMe Streaming

December 16, 2020Application Notes, StorageNVMe Streaming

NVMe Streamer for High-Speed FPGA Data Acquisition & Recording

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This Technical Brief is about FPGA high speed data streaming, explaining how to best record data that is received by an FPGA, for example from high-speed data acquisition, and that needs to be stored into an NVMe SSD (Non-Volatile Memory Express Solid-State Drive), after FPGA-based Data-in-Motion processing; or the opposite direction when data streams out of an SSD into an FPGA for Data-in-Motion processing.

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NVMe Streamer for High-Speed FPGA Data Acquisition & Recording

Recording with NVMe SSDs

October 12, 2020Application Notes, StorageNVMe Streaming, Storage Acceleration

Sustained, High-Speed Data Recording with NVMe SSDs

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MLE has been providing NVMe Streamer, an FPGA-based technology which enables users to directly stream onto NVM Express (NVMe) SSDs data to and from Programmable Logic (PL). The objective behind NVMe Streamer was to provide a solution for high speed data recording (and re-play) without any CPUs involved, either because your FPGA does not have an embedded CPU or because you are looking for a solution with deterministically high read/write bandwidth and performance scalability.

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Sustained, High-Speed Data Recording with NVMe SSDs

SATA Storage for Zynq

January 7, 2013Application Notes, StorageZYNQ SATA Storage Extension

SATA SSD Solutions for ZYNQ

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As of June 2014, MLE has released Zynq SSE (the SATA Storage Extension for Xilinx Zynq-7000 All Programmable SoC). Please visit MLEcorp.com/ZynqSSE for more information and how to order!

With decreasing cost of Solid-State Disks (SSD), data acquisition and logging, test and measurement, and other modern embedded systems applications can be enhanced with fast and cost-efficient off-the-shelf data storage. This Technical Brief discusses how to add Serial ATA (SATA) storage capability to such embedded systems implemented inside Xilinx Extensible Processing Platform ZYNQ running Open Source GNU/Linux.