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Storage system having an in-line hardware accelerator

US10956346B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Assignee

LIGHTBITS LABS LTD. · IL

Inventors

Shmuel Ben-Yehuda · Haifa, IL
Ofir Efrati · Even Yehuda, IL
Sagi Grimberg · Kfar Sava, IL
Eran Kirzner · Jaljulya, IL
Ziv Tishel · Kiryat Ono, IL
Fabian Trumper · Sunnyvale, US

Key dates

Filing date	Dec 29, 2017
Grant date	Mar 23, 2021
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Dec 29, 2037

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06F2213/28
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A storage system that includes an in-line hardware accelerator, a solid-state drive (SSD) unit, a central processing unit (CPU), a volatile memory module, and an accelerator memory module that is coupled to the in-line hardware accelerator or belongs to the in-line hardware accelerator; wherein the in-line hardware accelerator is directly coupled to the SSD unit, the volatile memory and the non-volatile memory; wherein the CPU is directly coupled to the volatile memory and to the non-volatile memory; wherein the in-line hardware accelerator is configured to manage access to the SSD unit; wherein the in-line accelerator is configured to retrieve data stored in the volatile memory module and the non-volatile memory module without involving the CPU.

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