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12 years ago

SATA on Stratix FPGAs

Hello Guys, I was wondering if you share your valuable experiences and ideas with us regarding SATA implementation. I have an old STRATIX dev board and I want to implement SATA protocol on that...
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12 years ago

SATA PHY requirements are described in detail in Serial ATA Specification, current revision is 3.2. www.sata-io.org

I still think that a parallel to serial ATA bridge is the most simple way to interface SATA to non-GX FPGA, particularly if you don't rely on the full SATA speed. You'll just implement a legacy PATA (IDE) storage device interface, the bridge does a transparent conversion.