SerialATA IPcore

Support SATA-II

SerialATA(SATA) IPcore compliant with the Serial ATA specification revision 2.6 and work on Xilinx Virtex5 device.
This IPcore provide link layer. Design Gateway provide transport layer and 20bit 150MHz RocketIO GTP physical layer design for 3.0Gbps SATA-II interface as reference design. It can connect with SATA-II HDD without PHY chip. Go to Performance/Application page

Features of SerialATA-IPcore

• Compliant with the Serial ATA specification revision 2.6
• Support both of SATA Host and SATA Device (Applicable to SATA Peripheral development)
• Simple transaction interface with Host processor or DMA Engine
• 32-bit internal data path
• 4KB FIFO implemented by BlockRAM in transmit and receive paths
• Support SATA-II (SATA-I support is also possible by PHY parameter settings change)
• Low frequency operation
  - IP Core clock 75.0MHz and PHY clock 150MHz for SATA-II
  - IP Core clock 37.5MHz and PHY clock 75MHz for SATA-I
• CONT primitive support for continue primitive suppression to reduce EMI
• Support 20bit width PHY implemented by Virtex5 GTP
• Able to evaluate on ML505/ML506 board before purchasing the IPcore