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Fun -- Texas Memory Systems was already shipping a product in that era that was FPGA-based. It did a variety of complicated network protocols, like Fibre Channe
by greglindahl 9y ago
Fun -- Texas Memory Systems was already shipping a product in that era that was FPGA-based. It did a variety of complicated network protocols, like Fibre Channel and eventually InfiniBand, with a pure FPGA implementation. The guy who ran the company was also an FPGA wizard. I was on a telecon with him once.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Memory_Systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Memory_Systems
- ChuckMcM 9y agoYeah, I think they are cited in the patent we did. The key differences were a) no non-volatile storage at all, and b) we took 16 memory 'blades' (1GBit each) and combined them into a single 10gbit backed 'controller'. It leveraged a lot of ideas from the disk shelves at the time. It did give you 1GB/s read/write fully raid protected memory (with equivalent FEC bits in the packets to catch network corruption) to the network. I expect TMS would have gotten there eventually once they moved on from 'storage' on the network/fabric to 'memory' on the network/fabric.