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Altera_Forum
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12 years ago

I want to check out the one of your development board

Stratix IV GX platforms include the Stratix IV GX signal integrity board, this is the board I want to check out, because I want to use Altera's sata interface to design embedded storage. I saw a docu...
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12 years ago

We have used the DE4 board from TerAsic for a sata development. It has the connectors, but not the SATA core on it.

http://www.terasic.com.tw/cgi-bin/page/archive.pl?language=english&categoryno=138&no=501

For the core we went with a core from Intelliprop (www.inteliprop.com). If you are looking to doing a device, they were easy to work with. SATA and SAS have moved forward since we did this project, but I was happy with the performance of the core provided. Our system was a "CPU-less" high performance storage and playback going to SSD drives.

It was interesting how much variation we saw with different drives. Not all drives are created equal, especially with non-compressible data.

Pete

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