The SAS Initiator Controller IP Core provides an interface to high-speed serial link replacements for the parallel SCSI attachment of mass storage devices. Maximum supported bandwidth is 48 Gbps. The serial link employs multiple high-speed gigabit transceivers.
Features:
- SAS & SATA Speed Negotiation and OOB
- SAS 1.5, 3.0, 6.0 and 12.0 Gbps support
- SATA 1.5, 3.0 abd 6.0 Gbps support
- Up to 48 GBps bandwidth
- Native 32 bit PHY interface
- Rate Tolerance Management
- Data and Idle scrambling
- Frame assembly and decoding
- Power Management
- Automatic Identify and Reset Management
- Automatic Connection Control
- Support of SMP, SSP and SATA protocols
- Multi-channel S/G DMA support with on-demand processing
- 256 bit DATA streaming interface
- Up to 32 internal transmit buffers
- Up to 32 internal receive buffers
