6Gb/s SAS/SATA IO Controllers
PRODUCT OVERVIEW
Marvell® offers a range of Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) host controller silicon and software solutions for desktops, workstations, servers and external storage systems. The controller silicon incorporates Marvell industry-leading
6 Gb/s SAS/Serial ATA (SATA) PHY technology and 5 GT/s PCI Express 2.0 (PCIe) PHY cores, which combine the best jitter performance and lowest per-port power consumption available today. Additionally, Marvell has invested heavily in the development of a full suite of high-performance, highly scalable, fault-tolerant RAID and storage management software. 6.0 Gbps
6.0 Gbps
6.0 Gbps
6.0 Gbps
6.0 Gbps
6.0 Gbps
6.0 Gbps
BLOCK DIAGRAM
6.0 Gbps
The Marvell SAS 6Gb/s host controllers support four or eight SAS/SATA ports, including native 6Gb/s SATA interface support, and as many as eight lanes of PCIe 2.0 connectivity, delivering up to 4GB/s bandwidth to the host system for high-performance demanding applications. It incorporates a RAID offload engine to reduce CPU utilization when running at RAID configurations, thereby increasing overall system performance. The devices are offered with
Windows/Linux non-RAID binary drivers and Linux open source driver for ease-of-use and fast product development.
4 or 8 SAS/SATA 6Gb/s Ports
TWSI
Flash
PM
Control
FIS Based
Switching
SAS
STP/SMP/
SSP
XOR
Enclosure
Mgmt
GPIO
(LED's)
OSC
PCIe
PCIe 2.0 x4 or x8
Figure 1. Block Diagram
KEY FEATURES
MODEL
• 6Gb/s SAS/SATA Ports
• PCIe 2.0 Compliant (5 GT/s)
• SATA 6Gb/s Compliant
• Concurrent IOs per Chip
• Native Command Queuing
• eSATA Support
• Programmable Signaling Levels
• SAS 2.0 Compliant
• T10 End-to-End Data Protection
• Enclosure Management
• Two-Wire Serial Interface (TWSI)
• GPIO Support
• SPI Flash Interface
88SE9485
88SE9445
8
4
X8
X4
6Gb/s SATA PHY with speed