MILPITAS, Calif., Nov. 30, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- LSI Corporation
(NYSE: LSI) today announced the TrueStore® RC9700, a
second-generation 40-nanometer (nm) read channel featuring
low-density parity check (LDPC) iterative decoding technology. Now
sampling to hard disk drive (HDD) manufacturers, the RC9700 is
designed to support notebook, desktop and enterprise HDD market
segments by featuring multiple cores optimized for high-speed or
low-power applications. Utilizing the RC9700's next-generation LDPC
iterative decoding technology, HDD OEMs can achieve significant
density increases while reducing power consumption and supporting
data rates exceeding 4.0Gb/s.
"HDD manufacturers rely on companies such as LSI to deliver
high-performance storage ICs that respond to a rapidly changing
market," said Mark Geenen,
President, TRENDFOCUS. "The industry transition to 40nm and LDPC
architecture has begun, and LSI remains ahead of this transition
curve with the introduction of its new TrueStore RC9700 read
channel."
The RC9700 builds upon the success of the revolutionary LDPC
architecture of its predecessor, the RC9500, to create a seamless
roadmap of significant density increases for HDD manufacturers. The
improvement in the RC9700 signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) in both
512-byte and 4K-byte sector sizes enables next-generation areal
densities of 750GB per disk in the mobile segment and 1.5TB per
disk in the desktop and enterprise segments.
The innovative design techniques used in the RC9700 deliver a
power reduction of over 10 percent in active mode compared to the
previous-generation product. The RC9700 also delivers a sleep mode
power reduction, which is critical to extending battery life in the
notebook market segment. In addition to extended battery life, the
lower power dissipation translates to reduced energy costs and
greater drive reliability.
"When LSI launched the industry's first 40nm read channel with
LDPC iterative decoding last year, we set out with the vision of
providing HDD customers with a low-risk, time-to-market advantage
in meeting the next HDD areal density point," said Phil Brace, senior vice president and general
manager, Storage Peripherals Division, LSI. "As these density
points continue to increase, LSI has once again responded with a
second-generation 40nm plug-in solution that delivers higher
capacity, lower power and high performance. Together with LSI
TrueStore preamplifiers and serial PHYs, our LDPC read channels
create a complete data path solution that has resulted in continued
design win momentum with the industry's top HDD manufacturers."
The RC9700 is the latest addition to the LSI TrueStore family of
ICs for hard disk, tape and solid-state drive components, including
highly integrated high-performance storage SoCs, read channels,
preamplifiers, serial PHYs and hard disk drive controller IP. By
offering a broad portfolio of integrated SoC solutions, LSI enables
its customers to address all segments of the storage market, from
mission-critical enterprise applications and high-capacity desktop
PCs to low-power laptops and tape archive solutions.
About LSI
LSI Corporation (NYSE: LSI) is a leading provider of innovative
silicon, systems and software technologies that enable products
which seamlessly bring people, information and digital content
together. The company offers a broad portfolio of capabilities and
services including custom and standard product ICs, adapters,
systems and software that are trusted by the world's best known
brands to power leading solutions in the Storage and Networking
markets. More information is available at www.lsi.com.
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