SMART STORAGE DEVICE

Abstract: a smart storage device is provided. the smart storage device includes a smart interface connected to a host device. an accelerator circuit is connected to the smart interface through a data bus conforming to a cxl.cache protocol and a cxl.mem protocol. the accelerator circuit is configured to perform acceleration computation in response to a computation command of the host device. a storage controller is connected to the smart interface through a data bus conforming to a cxl.io protocol. the storage controller is configured to control a data access operation for a storage device in response to a data access command of the host device. the accelerator circuit is directly accessible to the storage device through an internal bus connected directly to the storage controller.

Inventor(s): Hyeok Jun CHOE, Youn Ho JEON, Young Geon YOO, Hyo-Deok SHIN, I Poom JEONG

CPC Classification: G06F12/0877 (Cache access modes)

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