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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 23, 2021
Filed:
Dec. 29, 2017
Lightbits Labs Ltd., Kfar Saba, IL;
Shmuel Ben-Yehuda, Haifa, IL;
Ofir Efrati, Even Yehuda, IL;
Sagi Grimberg, Kfar-Saba, IL;
Eran Kirzner, Moshav Elishama, IL;
Ziv Tishel, Kiryat Ono, IL;
Fabian Trumper, Modiin, IL;
Lightbits Labs Ltd., Kfar Saba, IL;
Abstract
A storage system that includes an in-line hardware accelerator, a solid-state drive (SSD) unit, a central processing unit (CPU), a volatile memory module, and an accelerator memory module that is coupled to the in-line hardware accelerator or belongs to the in-line hardware accelerator; wherein the in-line hardware accelerator is directly coupled to the SSD unit, the volatile memory and the non-volatile memory; wherein the CPU is directly coupled to the volatile memory and to the non-volatile memory; wherein the in-line hardware accelerator is configured to manage access to the SSD unit; wherein the in-line accelerator is configured to retrieve data stored in the volatile memory module and the non-volatile memory module without involving the CPU.