FIRST TO MARKET · Publicly documented 2017 · Invent Deposition #103

Deposition #103 is the origin of the computational-storage line — the insight that the density and form of a storage medium is the real lever, and that solid-state form factors would win on that lever.

“examine why a 3.5 solid state data format would work … size matters, and when study of density of a disc/form is the goal … why not!” — Christopher Gabriel Brown, 2017

From one line to an engineered product

The 2017 line poses the question that became the AutoPhi CS-50: if density of form is the goal, push storage and compute into the same solid-state body. That is exactly the CS-50 computational-storage apparatus — inline AES-XTS encryption tweaked by physical-page address with a near-data compute engine, so data is processed where it is stored. The founding claim is intact: density of form is the goal — so compute at the data.

CS-50 architecture figures

The patent-pending CS-50 (U.S. Application 19/710,460) is documented in eight figures — overall block diagram, host write and read flows, the scan sequence, the arbiter, the bridge state machine, SQE packing, and the inline AES-XTS core:

Provenance

• Source: Invent Depositions corpus, Deposition #103 (2017)
• Original catalog image: Firefly_103_hard_drive_floppy.jpg (buyinvent.com)
• Architecture diagram: 2026 rendering of the CS-50 overall block diagram (Project 50)
• Live: AutoPhi CS-50 — Computational Storage
• Patent linkage: U.S. Application 19/710,460 (computational-storage apparatus, AutoPhi CS-50)

Cite this

• AP — Brown, C. G. (2017). Invent Depositions, Deposition #103. CreateSpace.
• APA — Brown, C. G. (2017). Invent depositions (Deposition No. 103). CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform.
• MLA — Brown, Christopher Gabriel. Invent Depositions, Deposition #103. CreateSpace, 2017.

© 2017 Christopher Gabriel Brown · Patent Pending · IP retained by CRI-ONE