Kazan Networks Adopting Andes Technology’s AndesCore N13

Andes Technology Corporation, an Asia-based supplier of small gate count, low-power and 32-bit embedded CPU cores, announced that Kazan Networks, an emerging contender in the enterprise networking and storage market specializing in low latency protocols, has adopted the N13 processor for their Fuji platform of products.

Kazan’s Fuji platform offers low latency for NVMe over Fabrics applications and provides the scalability required in data center applications.

“NVMe physical connection provides a direct connection between a server’s microprocessors and NVMe devices, which is ideal when populating a server with one or several SSDs,” said Murthy Kompella, VP engineering and co-founder, Kazan. “But NVMe scalability is limited and there is little support for sharing the flash resources among multiple servers. Kazan’s Fuji NVMe over Fabric platform removes these limitations by enabling disaggregation of compute and storage without sacrificing performance. Kazan’s platform also improves this further, by implementing the entire I/O path in hardware, minimizing latency.  Andes N13 core contributed to the successful completion of the Fuji NVMe over Fabric platform.“

“We are delighted that Kazan Networks chose our N13 for the Fuji NVMe over Fabric platform,” stated Emerson Hsiao, GM, Andes Technology. “As CPU core suppliers, we build solutions to meet a broad range of end applications. Kazan Networks pushed the performance envelope of Andes high-end 21st-century RISC instruction set N13 CPU core. However, with its 8-stage pipeline and clock rate over 1GHz, the N13 delivered 2.05 DMIPS/MHz to serve the demanding computing requirements of the Fuji NVMe over Fabrics Platform.“

About the NVMe Over Fabrics
“NVMe is a specification that allowed an SSD to make effective use of a high-speed PCIe bus in a computer. That specification, albeit useful within a single computer system, does not support SSD access across networks. To address that issue, NVMe over Fabrics (NVMeoF) was created to enable low-latency NVMe SSDs to scale out to the network in the most efficient way possible, simplifying design, reducing ovehead, and improving performance,” according to the Hyperion Research LLC’s report Flash Storage Trends and Impacts, published in April 2018.

About the NVMe Over Fabrics Market
“By 2021, IDC expects over 50% of primary storage revenue to be generated by NVMe-based storage platforms, and NVMe over Fabric will be in use on most of those systems,” said Eric Burgener, research VP, storage, IDC. “It makes sense for enterprises to understand what this technology can do for them so that they can integrate it into their own environments most cost-effectively.“

About the N13
The Andes Technology N13 processor is a CPU core architected for computation intensive applications running on OSs or as a stored program. The N13 is designed to serve the demanding requirements of application processors in SoCs for consumer electronics such as HDTVs, home media servers, cable and over-the-top set top boxes, as well as SoCs for the switches and routers delivering content to these devices. Complete with memory management unit, L1/L2 cache, local memory, DMA, FPU, vectored interrupt, and branch prediction, the N13 runs complex OS such as Linux. And with an 8-stage pipeline and a clock rate over 1GHz, the core delivers impressive performance of 2.05 DMIPS/MHz to serve the most demanding computing environments. Furthermore, the N13 AndesCore supports the latest AndeStar V3 architecture, which is accompanied with toolchain, IDE, RTOS, Linux, middleware, and platform development IP.

The N13’s strength, plus its ecosystem, provide designers with the competitive edge for success in their embedded system solutions.