公开(公告)号：US11768601B2

公开(公告)日：2023-09-26

申请号：US17343495

申请日：2021-06-09

Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.

Inventor： Ramdas P. Kachare ,  Vijay Balakrishnan ,  Stephen G. Fischer ,  Fred Worley ,  Anahita Shayesteh ,  Zvi Guz

IPC: G06F3/00 ,  G06F3/06 ,  G06F9/38 ,  G06F9/54

CPC classification number: G06F3/061 ,  G06F3/0656 ,  G06F3/0679 ,  G06F9/38 ,  G06F9/541 ,  G06F9/544

Abstract: A system includes a plurality of storage processing accelerators (SPAs), at least one SPA of the plurality of SPAs including a plurality of programmable processors or storage processing engines (SPEs), the plurality of SPEs including n SPEs (n is a natural number greater than zero), where 1st to (n−1) SPEs of the n SPEs are configured to provide an output of the SPE to a next SPE of the n SPEs in a pipeline to be used as an input of the next SPE; and an acceleration platform manager (APM) connected to the plurality of the SPAs and the plurality of SPEs, and configured to control data processing in the plurality of SPAs and the plurality of SPEs.

公开(公告)号：US11650949B2

公开(公告)日：2023-05-16

申请号：US17063507

申请日：2020-10-05

Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Sompong Paul Olarig ,  Fred Worley ,  Son Pham

IPC: G06F13/12 ,  G06F13/40 ,  G06F13/42 ,  G06F13/16

CPC classification number: G06F13/4022 ,  G06F13/1668 ,  G06F13/4068 ,  G06F13/4282 ,  G06F2213/0026 ,  G06F2213/0028 ,  G06F2213/0036

Abstract: A system includes a fabric switch including a motherboard, a baseboard management controller (BMC), a network switch configured to transport network signals, and a PCIe switch configured to transport PCIe signals; a midplane; and a plurality of device ports. Each of the plurality of device ports is configured to connect a storage device to the motherboard of the fabric switch over the midplane and carry the network signals and the PCIe signals over the midplane. The storage device is configurable in multiple modes based a protocol established over a fabric connection between the system and the storage device.

公开(公告)号：US20230144432A1

公开(公告)日：2023-05-11

申请号：US18092088

申请日：2022-12-30

Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.

Inventor： Ramdas P. Kachare ,  Dong Gi Lee ,  Ajay Sundar Raj ,  Fred Worley

IPC: G06F15/173 ,  G06F3/06

CPC classification number: G06F15/17331 ,  G06F3/0611 ,  G06F3/067 ,  G06F3/0659 ,  H04L45/50

Abstract: A system and method for differentiated storage services with a Ethernet SSD includes receiving, at an Ethernet SSD (eSSD), an input/output (I/O) service request from a remote host via a multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) network. The I/O service request includes at least one parameter that may be used to match the I/O service request to a label switched path (LSP) based on the parameter(s). A storage traffic stream may then be opened between the eSSD and the remote host over the MPLS network according to the LSP.

公开(公告)号：US20230016328A1

公开(公告)日：2023-01-19

申请号：US17953011

申请日：2022-09-26

Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Ramdas Kachare ,  Fred Worley ,  Xuebin Yao

IPC: G06F13/42 ,  G06F3/06 ,  G06F9/4401 ,  H04L49/356 ,  G06F13/40 ,  G06F13/16

Abstract: A data storage device includes: a data storage medium; a processor comprising a plurality of processor cores; a plurality of application acceleration black-box (AABB) slots including reconfigurable logic blocks, interconnects, and memories; a host interface that receives a host command from a remote application running on a remote host computer, wherein the host command includes an image file including a register-transfer level (RTL) bitstream and a firmware driver; and a configuration controller that downloads the RTL bitstream to an AABB slot of the plurality of AABB slots and reconfigure the AABB slot, and load the firmware driver to a processor core of the processor. The processor core loaded with the firmware driver runs a data acceleration process of the remote application to access and process data stored in the data storage medium using the RTL bitstream downloaded in the AABB slot.

公开(公告)号：US11487696B2

公开(公告)日：2022-11-01

申请号：US16928711

申请日：2020-07-14

Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Ramdas Kachare ,  Fred Worley ,  Xuebin Yao

IPC: G06F3/06 ,  G06F13/42 ,  H04L49/356 ,  G06F9/4401 ,  G06F13/16 ,  G06F13/40 ,  G06N20/00

Abstract: A data storage device includes: a data storage medium; a processor comprising a plurality of processor cores; a plurality of application acceleration black-box (AABB) slots including reconfigurable logic blocks, interconnects, and memories; a host interface that receives a host command from a remote application running on a remote host computer, wherein the host command includes an image file including a register-transfer level (RTL) bitstream and a firmware driver; and a configuration controller that downloads the RTL bitstream to an AABB slot of the plurality of AABB slots and reconfigure the AABB slot, and load the firmware driver to a processor core of the processor. The processor core loaded with the firmware driver runs a data acceleration process of the remote application to access and process data stored in the data storage medium using the RTL bitstream downloaded in the AABB slot.

公开(公告)号：US11487691B2

公开(公告)日：2022-11-01

申请号：US16941257

申请日：2020-07-28

Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Sompong Paul Olarig ,  Fred Worley ,  Son Pham

IPC: G06F13/40 ,  G06F13/42

Abstract: A rack-mounted system includes a chassis, a switchless board disposed in the chassis, a midplane, and a plurality of device ports. The switchless board includes a baseboard management controller (BMC), a network repeater configured to transport network signals, and a PCIe switch configured to transport PCIe signals. Each of the plurality of device ports is configured to connect a storage device to the midplane and carry the network signals and the PCIe signals over the midplane. The storage device is configurable to operate in one of multiple storage protocol modes based on a type of the chassis. The network repeater of the switchless board is swappable with an Ethernet switch to provide a switching compatibility to the chassis using the same midplane. The storage device can operate in single-port and dual-port configurations.

公开(公告)号：US11132310B2

公开(公告)日：2021-09-28

申请号：US16752612

申请日：2020-01-24

Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Ramdas P. Kachare ,  Fred Worley ,  Harry Rogers ,  Wentao Wu ,  Nagarajan Subramaniyan

IPC: G06F13/16 ,  G06F13/40 ,  G06F13/42

Abstract: A system is disclosed. The system may include a processor running an application program and a memory storing data being used by the application program. An upstream interface enables communication with the processor; a downstream interface enables communication with a storage device. The system may also include an acceleration module implemented using hardware and including an Acceleration Platform Manager (APM-F) to execute an acceleration instruction. The storage device may include an endpoint of the storage device for communicating with the acceleration module, a controller to manage operations of the storage device, storage for application data for the application program, and a storage device Acceleration Platform Manager (APM-S) to assist the APM-F in executing the acceleration instruction. The processor, the acceleration module, and the storage device may communicate via a Peripheral Component Interconnect Exchange (PCIe) bus. The acceleration module may support performing the acceleration instruction on the application data on the storage device for the application program without loading the application data into the memory.

公开(公告)号：US10915469B2

公开(公告)日：2021-02-09

申请号：US16115338

申请日：2018-08-28

Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Sompong Paul Olarig ,  Fred Worley

IPC: G06F13/16 ,  G06F3/06

Abstract: According to some example embodiments according to the present disclosure, a device includes a printed circuit board (PCB); a solid state drive (SSD) connected at a first side of the PCB via at least one SSD connector; at least one field programmable gate array (FPGA) attached to the PCB at a second side of the PCB; and at least one front end connector attached to the PCB at a third side of the PCB, wherein the device is configured to process data stored in the SSD based on a command received via the at least one front end connector.

公开(公告)号：US20210019273A1

公开(公告)日：2021-01-21

申请号：US17063507

申请日：2020-10-05

Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Sompong Paul Olarig ,  Fred Worley ,  Son Pham

IPC: G06F13/40 ,  G06F13/42 ,  G06F13/16

Abstract: A system includes a fabric switch including a motherboard, a baseboard management controller (BMC), a network switch configured to transport network signals, and a PCIe switch configured to transport PCIe signals; a midplane; and a plurality of device ports. Each of the plurality of device ports is configured to connect a storage device to the motherboard of the fabric switch over the midplane and carry the network signals and the PCIe signals over the midplane. The storage device is configurable in multiple modes based a protocol established over a fabric connection between the system and the storage device.

公开(公告)号：US10776299B2

公开(公告)日：2020-09-15

申请号：US16433838

申请日：2019-06-06

Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Inventor： Fred Worley ,  Harry Rogers ,  Sreenivas Krishnan ,  Zhan Ping ,  Michael Scriber

IPC: G06F13/38 ,  G06F13/42 ,  G06F13/40

Abstract: A flexible storage system. A storage motherboard accommodates, on a suitable connector, a storage adapter circuit that provides protocol translation between a host bus interface and a storage interface, and that provides routing, to accommodate a plurality of mass storage devices that may be connected to the storage adapter circuit through the storage motherboard. The storage adapter circuit may be replaced with a circuit supporting a different host interface or a different storage interface.