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News Release from: LSI Europe | Subject: CoreWare
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 06 May 2005
Serial ATA core joins IP portfolio
LSI Logic Corp has added a Serial ATA core to its CoreWare portfolio of intellectual property.
LSI Logic Corp has added a Serial ATA (SATA) core to its CoreWare portfolio of intellectual property (IP) The SATA core provides LSI Logic customers with a high-performance storage interface for easy integration into cell-based ASIC or RapidChip platform ASIC designs
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 15 May 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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Preverified in silicon and compliant with SATA II specifications, the LSI Logic SATA core significantly truncates time and risk of product development for storage systems, consumer and office automation applications.
"SATA is rapidly being adopted as the next step in ATA technology", said Sean Lavey, Programme Manager for Semiconductor Research at IDC.
"It provides greater scalability, simpler installation and faster performance while maintaining backwards compatibility with legacy parallel ATA drivers".
"With plans to increase I/O speeds up to 6Gbit/s in coming years, SATA will soon be robust enough for higher-end enterprise servers thereby increasing overall market demand".
LSI Logic's SATA core IP can be configured to meet device or host side system requirements.
The SATA core's modular design includes the physical layer (PHY), link and transport layers with a data buffer manager interface that interacts with the application layer.
The LSI Logic GigaBlaze serialiser/deserialiser (serdes) core is optimally designed for use as a physical layer for high-speed protocols.
The SATA core leverages the GigaBlaze serdes to support both 1.5 and 3.0Gbit/s operation.
The core also allows custom frame/FIS generation and reception for device operational flexibility.
"LSI Logic's serdes and serial protocols expertise spans five technology generations with our industry-leading GigaBlaze transceiver cores", said Rod Bowman, Director of Marketing and Product Development, Storage and Computing Custom Solutions Division, LSI Logic Corp.
"This expertise has been leveraged to create an interoperable, yet efficient SATA core".
"This full function core allows our customers to realise unprecedented time-to-market with low risk".
Customers are implementing LSI Logic's SATA core in their designs today.
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