MILPITAS, Calif., Nov. 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- ACCELERATING
INNOVATION SUMMIT -- LSI Corporation (NYSE: LSI) today
announced the TrueStore® PA5100 and PA5200, the company's latest
high-performance, low-power preamplifier integrated circuits (IC)
for the notebook, desktop and enterprise hard disk drive (HDD)
market segments.
The PA5100 and PA5200 preamplifiers deliver operating speeds of
up to 5.0Gb/s, a 25 percent performance improvement compared to the
previous generation, and consume significantly less power than
their predecessor. The PA5200 write driver uses a conventional
dual-power design, and can deliver more than a 15 percent reduction
in preamp write power. The PA5100 write driver operates from a
single power supply, which can enable a preamp power reduction of
more than 35 percent for next-generation HDDs.
The new preamplifiers provide hard drive manufacturers with the
flexibility to deploy a common IC capable of serving all major HDD
market segments – from 5.4K RPM notebook through 15K RPM enterprise
HDDs. Hard drive makers who integrate PA5100/PA5200 preamps into
their drive assemblies can benefit from lower development costs,
reduced inventories and an accelerated time-to-market with a single
preamp capable of addressing a wide range of application
requirements.
"HDD manufacturers rely on LSI to deliver world-class HDD
silicon technologies that raise the bar for hard drive capacity,
power and performance," said Phil
Brace, senior vice president and general manager, Storage
Peripherals Division, LSI. "With operating speeds up to 5.0Gb/s,
the new preamps provide HDD makers with high-performance solutions
that easily surpass end users' data rate requirements while
offering optimal power-performance balance."
The LSI TrueStore storage IC product portfolio provides a
complete head-to-host recording system design, including
preamplifiers, read channels, serial PHYs and ARM® core processor
IP. By optimizing the entire system data path, the TrueStore family
enables HDD makers to continually develop higher-capacity products
with increased performance and lower overall power usage, while
enabling faster time-to-volume and lower costs.
By offering a broad portfolio of SoC and preamplifier solutions,
LSI enables its HDD 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) designs semiconductors and software
that accelerate storage and networking in datacenters and mobile
networks. Our technology is the intelligence critical to enhanced
application performance, and is applied in solutions created in
collaboration with our partners. More information is available at
www.lsi.com.
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