SATA310 IP

The SATA310 complies with the industry standard serial ATA specification (revision 1.0) supports SATAII speed requirements and can be easily adapted to support the SAS standard. In a serial ATA application, it is designed for either host or device operations and can drive electrical cables directly, without external components.
The architecture is optimized to deliver the best jitter performance together with small transceiver size, low power consumption and easy migration into future of process geometries.

In addition , the SATA310 has a modular design, sharing blocks to reduce power consumption and area where multiple PHY are to be integrated into a single ASIC. To reduce electromagnetic interference (EMI), the SATA310 supports SSC modulation, and the SSC transmit function can be disabled if required.

The SATA310 also integrates 8b/10b encode/decode functions offering a higher level of integration. The SATA310 performs the high-speed serialization and deserialization function and provides a 20-bit wide parallel interface to the link. The parallel interface runs at 75 MHz for 1.5Gbps and 150MHz for 3.0Gbps. The timing source (clock) can be provided internally or externally, and as it is designed with a true DFT approach, all the internal logic is accessible through a scan path. A self-test capability (BIST) is included. This latest addition to the ST product family for storage and computer applications completes the ST product and IP portfolio for serial interfaces. The SATA310 enables interoperability and rapid technology integration.