The need for mass storage devices with low power consumption and high operational performance is being driven by consumer electronics and enterprise-class storage systems. Applications such as personal media players, digital video recorders, notebooks, desktop computing, and blade servers need high density storage devices such as Hard Disk Drives (HDD), Hybrid Drives (HHD) and Solid State Disk Drives (SSD) to reliably facilitate large amounts of data, while maintaining high bandwidth.
Designers are relying on third party IP that offers a robust feature set to help speed the development, lower overall costs and reduce risk of these storage-based system-on-chips.