Scalable storage device
AssigneeSeagate Technology LLC
InventorsKevin A. GOMEZ, Dan MOHR, Daniel Joseph KLEMME, Aditya JAIN
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Abstract
Implementations described and claimed herein provide a high-capacity, high-bandwidth scalable storage device. The scalable storage device includes a layer stack including at least one memory layer and at least one optical control layer positioned adjacent to the memory layer. The memory layer includes a plurality of memory cells and the optical control layer is adapted to receive optically-encoded read/write signals and to effect read and write operations to the plurality of memory cells through an electrical interface.
Claims20
A storage device comprising:
- a layer stack including at least:
- a memory layer including a plurality of memory cells;
- and
- an optical control layer positioned adjacent to the memory layer in the layer stack, the optical control layer being adapted to receive and transmit optically-encoded read/write signals and effect read and write operations to the plurality of memory cells through an electrical interface.
A storage system comprising:
- a portable storage device including:
- at least one memory layer having a plurality of memory cells;
- and
- at least one optical control layer adjacent to the at least one memory layer, the optical control layer including a bus waveguide that delivers optically-encoded read/write signals to control circuitry that effects read and write operations to the plurality of memory cells through an electrical interface.
A method comprising:
- directing optical signals through an optical control layer of a storage device, the optical control layer being adjacent to a memory layer and being adapted to effect read and write operations to a plurality of memory cells in the memory layer through an electrical interface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.