Realtek Semiconductor Inc.

I-Hsun Huang

Cheng-Yu Chen

An-Ming Lee

A system on a chip (SOC) and an integrated circuit device having the same are disclosed. The SOC has a chip controller and a first chip element which do not need to operate according to a reference clock signal, and the SOC has a second chip element which needs to operate according to the reference clock signal. During resetting of a main system processor, the chip controller of the SOC is reset simultaneously. After the chip controller finishes resetting, the first chip element is then reset. After the main system processor finishes resetting, the second chip element of the SOC starts to reset. Accordingly, during the resetting of the main system processor, the SOC is reset simultaneously, thereby reducing the boot time of the integrated circuit device.

Integrated circuit device and system on a chip (SOC) for reducing boot time

A solid state drive (SSD) controlling circuit and related SSD device and SSD access system are disclosed. The SSD controlling circuit includes: an AHCI (advance host controller interface) controlling circuit for coupling with a PCIe (peripheral component interconnect express) interface; and a flash memory controlling circuit coupled with the AHCI controlling circuit and configured to operably control accessing operations of one or multiple flash memory arrays of a solid state drive. The AHCI controlling circuit transmits an indication message to a host device through the PCIe interface. The indication message is configured to declare that the AHCI controlling circuit is currently coupled with M solid state drives, wherein M is an integer greater than 1 and less than 32.

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Hsinchu, Taiwan

I-Hsun Huang