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16 years ago

SATA support in stratix II GX

I want to know any body implemented sata2 /sata3 in transceiver signal integrity development kit, stratix ii gx edition (http://www.altera.com/products/devkits/altera/kit-signal_integrity_s2gx.html) ...
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16 years ago

As far as I know, Stratix II GX transceivers are missing some functions required for SATA/SAS, particularly the out-of-band signalling feature. Newer chips, e.g. Arria II are supporting SATA explicitely.