Synopsys, Inc. announced that Starblaze has achieved first-pass silicon success for its new MB1000 enterprise SSD controller using Synopsys'DesignWare ARC HS38 processor as well as DDR4 and PCI Express controller and PHY IP. Starblaze selected the ARC HS38 processor because it offers multicore support for SMP Linux, a 40-bit physical address space and the ARC Processor EXtension (APEX) technology that enabled them to add instructions to reduce I/O latency. Furthermore, the ARC HS38 processor offers higher performance at half the power consumption compared to competitive processors. Starblaze also selected DesignWare DDR4 and PCI Express 3.1 IP for its high quality and rich set of features. By using DesignWare IP, Starblaze met their performance requirements and delivered a differentiated, production-ready design within a tight time-to-market schedule. DesignWare DDR4 and PCI Express 3.1 IP Features Enhance SoC Differentiation. By choosing DesignWare IP, Starblaze was able to reduce their system hardware requirements, reduce power consumption, improve performance and cut their overall costs. Starblaze selected the DesignWare DDR4 IP to enable more efficient memory access in its storage applications. The IP supports high-capacity DDR4 and DDR4 3D stacked (DDR4-3DS) DRAM with 16 ranks of memory to expand capacity by up to 400% compared to the previously supported four ranks, without reducing performance. Starblaze also integrated the high-performance DesignWare IP for PCI Express 3.1, which delivers 98% throughput efficiency with low latency. The DesignWare IP for PCI Express 3.1 supports PCI-SIG Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) technology, which enables the simultaneous sharing of peripherals across multiple CPUs or operating systems. Both the DesignWare DDR4 and PCI Express 3.1 IP include reliability, availability and serviceability (RAS) features to increase data protection, system availability and issue diagnosis for high-performance, data-intensive applications such as enterprise SSDs.