BiTMICRO (News - Alert) Networks, a provider of intelligent flash solid state drive (SSD) storage solutions, announced a new platform architecture that integrates BiTMICRO's next generation of SSD controllers.

With this, the company has gone full cycle in the development of its two new generation application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) designs, optimized to meet the growing market need for high-performance, secured and cost-effective SSD solutions, company officials said.

The third-generation platform architecture consists of a multi-core SSD controller integrated with multiple high-speed serial on-chip buses and embedded multi-core processors. This results in high-speed data transfer between host and storage device.

This controller is the only ASIC platform designed with built-in standard I/O cores such as SAS (News - Alert), SATA and PCIe, eliminating the need for a bridge or third party I/O controllers, the company claims.

"The completion of the new platform design is considered a major achievement in our business strategy,” said Rey Bruce, CEO of BiTMICRO Networks, in a statement. “Being a pioneer in this industry, we realize the need to adapt to the demands of new markets and explore new technologies using our Research and Development team.”

The new platform, the company says, is the only solid state drive storage platform design featuring two customized ASIC controllers. It also serves as the foundation for its new breed of SSD storage solutions expected to be released soon.

By combining the SSD controllers with flash channel expander controller, these high-performing third-generation ASICs enable BiTMICRO to offer a variety of solid state storage product lines by utilizing one common platform architecture.

BiTMICRO’s platform supports Toggle and ONFI SLC and MLC flash memory devices. The intelligent flash channel expander controller also manages the flash devices and supports multi-block I/O operations over a large array of flash devices. The number of flash channel expanders can be increased depending on the performance and capacity requirements of a particular application.

The SSD storage device-level products utilizing said ASIC architecture are expected to be ready for market testing by the first half of 2012.

Research and Markets recently revealed that SSD adoption rates are now increasing in commercial/embedded market segment as SSD prices continue to decline. This is providing a bright spot for SSDs, particularly SSD modules for their small form factors and performance attributes.