Highly versatile, this PCIe Gen4 SSD platform was designed to balance performance, power efficiency, and cost for multiple embedded applications. Offering more than 30 variants, this PCIe for extreme conditions of critical applications enable nuanced integration. Especially aimed to provide comprehensive data?security capabilities for mission-critical applications in thermally constrained environments.
No sweat. Extreme conditions often are the backdrop of critical applications and operations. As our world is increasingly data storage dependant, the need for data integrity under stressed and unyielding conditions becomes ever more crucial. Especially, under extreme heat, or no cooling mechanism.
In tune with the market’s needs, E.D.E. Electronics is proud to present the N7000 Peripheral Component Interconnect express (PCIe) Gen4 Solid State Drive (SSD) solutions family. This PCIe for critical application is designed to provide a well-balanced performance, power efficiency and cost for a wide array of embedded applications.
Made by memory tech innovator Swissbit, these PCIe modules are offered in more than 30 renditions. Each unique in terms of capacities, features and temperature grades. Thus, enabling a tailored configuration for system-level power and performance demands via leveraging 3D Triple Level Cell (TLC)BiCS8 NAND. Alongside an industrial architecture power optimization process.
Additionally, the family offers storage capacities varying from 240 GB to 3.84 TB in M.2 242 and M.2 2280 formats respectively. Following its debut in Embedded World at Nuremberg this year, these PCIe for critical application solutions ensure supply-chain independence, while delivering a reliable, energy?efficient foundation for next?generation boot and data storage drives. Specifically, within mixed workloads.
This PCIe for extreme conditions family is the first to be built entirely on in?house NAND packaging combined with Swissbit?developed controller and firmware. In addition, the solutions are further enhanced with the integration of pseudo–Single Level Cell (pSLC) variants, as well as mission critical renderings equipped with induced protection features.
As these modules aim to provide predictable performance under tight thermal and power budgets, the platform supports industrial, commercial, networking, communication, and edge?AI systems. Namely, apparatuses which rely on low power draw without sacrificing responsiveness. Such high responsiveness is achieved via Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM)?less controller design with Host Memory Buffer (HMB). Meanwhile, NVMe power?loss notification supports mission?critical usage.
In continuation, operating temperature ranges vary in terms of catered applications. Furthermore, for operating environments such as Point Of Sale (POS), Automated Teller Machine (ATM), Human Machine Interface (HMI), digital signage, and Industrial Internet Of Things (IoT)- operational temperature spectrum ranges from 0°C to 70°C. In parallel, for more advanced automation and robotics such as PLC systems, motion control, embedded controllers, machine vision, or autonomous robots- operational temperature spectrum ranges -40°C to 85°C. Optional heatsink configurations allow further tuning of thermal and power behaviour at the system level.
There are also solutions for specific designations, such as the N7600 Series. Targeting write?intensive workloads, this specific series provides pSLC endurance exceeding ten times the write load of TLC configurations. Available from 80 GB to 1.28 TB capacities, it is qualified for industrial temperature ranges. Thus, well-suited for logging, caching, and continuous data acquisition scenarios requiring maximum reliability and longevity.
Dr. Eran Weis, E.D.E. Electronics Ltd. CEO, stated that “the N7000 family is a new step forward for the data-encompassed world. As the world turns more and more reliant of big data, data centers and AI optimization, the demand for more rugged, harsh and fine equipped hardware is acutely felt”. Dr. Weis emphasized: “these PCIe series are ready to deliver unparalleled hard thought-off, hard earned capabilities. As heat-related malfunctions in data hardware are on the rise as a result of the formation of the AI age, this topic is critical for the success of the data revolution”.
Axel Mehnert, product manager at Swissbit, remarked in the company’s publication: “For system designers and OEMs, the N7000 delivers value in several ways”, and explained that the PCIe family “combines high sustained performance with low power consumption, helping to simplify system design in space- and energy-constrained platforms. It also supports high reliability and data integrity over the full product lifetime, even under changing environmental conditions. In addition, the wide range of versions allows customers to choose the right SSD for specific requirements, from boot drives to communications infrastructure and edge processing systems”.