MLE NVMe Fast FPGA RAID Recorder System

October 22, 2025Application Notes, Storage400Gbps, AMD, AMD Alveo U55C, AMD V80, Data Recording, Fast FPGA RAID, FFRAID, High-speed Data, NVMe

MLE NVMe Fast FPGA RAID Recorder System

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High-Speed Data Acquisition Systems require storing massive data in non-volatile memory. When read/write data rate exceeds the capabilities of single high-performance NVMe SSDs, or an off-the-shelf NAS system causes gaps during data acquisition, then rely on MLE NVMe FFRAID Recorder, a fast and FPGA-based RAID solution for use with NVMe SSDs:

Now, you can transfer bulky data from multiple sensors to a Redundant Array of Inexpensive NVMe SSDs at speeds up to 400 Gbps.

MLE NVMe FFRAID Recorder is a turnkey system – delivered as a ready-to-run appliance – to support data-in-motion pre- and post-processing and is highly scalable with regards to bandwidth and recording capacity.

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MLE NVMe Fast FPGA RAID Recorder System

MLE NVMe Fast FPGA RAID Accelerator

October 22, 2025Application Notes, Storage400Gbps, AMD, AMD Alveo U55C, AMD V80, Data Recording, Fast FPGA RAID, FFRAID, High-speed Data, NVMe

MLE NVMe Fast FPGA RAID Accelerator

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High-Speed Data Acquisition Systems require storing massive data in non-volatile memory. When read/write data rate exceeds the capabilities of single high-performance NVMe SSDs, or an off-the-shelf NAS system causes gaps during data acquisition, then rely on MLE NVMe FFRAID Accelerator, a fast and FPGA-based RAID solution for use with NVMe SSD.

Now, you can transfer bulky data from multiple sensors to a Redundant Array of Inexpensive NVMe SSDs at speeds up to 400 Gbps. MLE NVMe FFRAID implements a channel-based architecture, supports data-in-motion pre- and post-processing and is highly scalable with regards to bandwidth and recording capacity. Multiple systems can further be cascaded via IEEE 1588-2019 (HA) Precision Time Synchronization (PTP) for faster and/or deeper recording.

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MLE NVMe Fast FPGA RAID Accelerator

High-Speed Camera Recorder Powered by MLE’s Fast FPGA RAID (FFRAID)

March 25, 2025Application Notes, Storage400Gbps, Data Recording, Fast FPGA RAID, FFRAID, High-speed Data

High-Speed Camera Recorder Powered by MLE’s Fast FPGA RAID (FFRAID)

Success Story

Excelitas PCO is a pioneer in cameras and optoelectronics, offering distinct platforms for high-speed cameras for a wide range of industrial, scientific, car safety, and aerospace applications.

Challenge

The new pco.dimax series offers a unique platform of high-speed streaming cameras that enable clear images with a recording speed of over 2000 fps at a full resolution of 3.6 MPixel. This massive raw data rate comes with the challenges to record this image data gapless and lossless!

MLE helped Excelitas PCO develop the high-speed data acquisition and recording systems by implementing FFRAID — a Fast FPGA RAID — to offload CPU-intensive tasks and achieve up to 200 Gbps sustained recording speeds.

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High-Speed Camera Recorder Powered by MLE’s Fast FPGA RAID (FFRAID)

FPGA-Based Systems With MicroTCA

February 5, 2025Application Notes, Methodologies400Gbps, Agilex 5, AMD, AMD Versal, Data Recording, Fast FPGA RAID, FFRAID, High-speed Data, MicroTCA, mTCA, PCIe 4.0, PCIe 5.0, SoM, Trenz

FPGA-Based Systems With MicroTCA

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Many FPGA-based systems projects are rather low volume and, therefore, favor off-the-shelf hardware over the costs and risks of custom hardware (PCB) design.
MicroTCA or mTCA or µTCA is a 20+ year old standard from PICMG for implementing embedded systems using off-the-shelf hardware. Most often MicroTCA is used for test & measurement or for scientific applications when application specific IOs and signals need to be processed where FPGAs provide the flexibility and processing performance.
However, as we will demonstrate in this Technical Brief, MicroTCA carries a huge baggage, and has little to no advantages over other approaches, namely FPGA based System-on-Modules or the “good old” PC architecture.

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FPGA-Based Systems With MicroTCA

FFRAID – A Fast FPGA RAID

January 30, 2025Application Notes, Storage400Gbps, AMD, AMD Alveo U55C, AMD U50, AMD V80, Data Decimation, Data Recording, High-speed Data, Indexing Metadata, Linux Soft-RAID, NVMe SSD RAID0, NVMe Streaming, PCIe 4.0, PCIe 5.0, RAID1, Security, TCG OPAL

FFRAID – A Fast FPGA RAID for High-Speed Data Acquisition

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In past MLE Technical Briefs (“Sustained, High-Speed Data Recording with NVMe SSDs” and “NVMe Streamer for High-Speed FPGA Data Acquisition & Recording” and customer success stories we have presented FPGA-based solutions for high-speed data acquisition. This Technical Brief is a sequel describing how FPGA-based data acquisition can be pushed to new limits using MLE FFRAID, a Fast FPGA RAID for NVMe SSDs.

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FFRAID – A Fast FPGA RAID for High-Speed Data Acquisition