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15 years ago

Can FPGA be directly interfaced with external storage drives?

Hi, I am wondering if its possible to implement a PCIe root IP in FPGA and use it to save streaming data into an off-chip high-speed storage device, such as SSD? Does PCIe controller handle co...
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15 years ago

Daixiwen,

I checked 3rd party IP solutions and some of them seem to offer pure logic-based solutions to interface SATA to FPGA, i.e., without any processor+OS needs. Some even provide RAID IPs to connect multiple SATA SSDs, which I suspect I will need due to my bandwidth requirements. Unfortunately, these IPs are not cheap!

Anyway, thanks for your input and help.