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SATA IP core provides link layer to implement SATA channel to Intel FPGAs. It supports SATA-III (6Gbps) and matches with SATA-III SSDs. It can connect with SSD/HDD without PHY chip. You can develop your product in a short period because the IP core product includes the reference design with source code designed for Intel® FPGA development kit.

Features

• Compliant with the Serial ATA specification revision 3.0
• Support both of SATA Host and SATA Device (Applicable to SATA Peripheral development)
• Simple transaction interface with Host processor or DMA Engine
• 32-bit internal data path
• 4KB FIFO implemented by BlockRAM in transmit and receive paths
• Low frequency operation
  - IP Core clock 75.0MHz and PHY clock 150MHz for SATA-II
  - IP Core clock 150.0MHz and PHY clock 300MHz for SATA-III
  
• CONT primitive support for continue primitive suppression to reduce EMI
• Support 20bit width PHY
• Able to evaluate on Intel® FPGA development kits before purchasing the IP core
  - HSMC-SATA adaptor board(AB09/AB12) is required.
  - NIOS2 Command Shell is required.
  Get time limited evaluation sof file
• Support AHCI, Linux boot up from SoC devices.
• Host Controller IP (HCTL IP) is available to be provided with SATA-IP core.
• exFAT & FAT32 file system management without CPU usage (Option)

Block diagram

Suitable Options for SATA application

The best performance High-speed sustain rate	SATA access from Linux	FPGA-PC data exchange
HCTL-IP (SATA Host controller IP)	AHCI-IP	exFAT-IP FAT32-IP
Whole control for SATA-IP with pure hard-wired logic, and can reduce CPU as well as can provide the best performance and minimum latency	AHCI adapter function that is necessary to access from LinuxOS via AHCI device driver. For SOC devices	Manage exFAT/FAT32 file system by pure hard-wired logic together with HCTL-IP and SATA-IP.
Learn more: SATA-IP Related Products Selection Guide

* All solution requires SATA-IP core.

Document download

Common Documents

Document name	Update (Revision)
SATA-IP core Leaflet	Rev2.0
SATA-IP core Presentation	Rev1.8E
SATA-IP core RAID prototype system introduction	Rev1.3E
SATA-IP Related Products Selection Guide	Rev1.2E
Demo Board (AB09-FMCRAID) Manual	Rev1.2
Demo Board (AB11-HSMCSATA) Manual	Rev1.0
Demo Board (AB12-HSMCRAID) Manual	Rev1.0

Documents for each Device families &Evaluation sof files

Document		Arria® 10 SX Cyclone®10 GX Reflex Alaric	Stratix® V GX Arria® V ST/GX Cyclone® V SX
HOST Controller IP core (HCTL IP)	HCTL IP Datasheet	Rev1.2
	Reference Design Document	Rev1.2
	Demo Instruction Document	Rev1.2
	Evaluation sof file Registration Form	Arria 10 SX Reflex Alaric	Arria V GX
8ch RAID0 by HCTL IP	8ch RAID0 Reference Design Document	Rev1.0
	8ch RAID0 Demo Instruction Document	Rev1.0	Rev1.1
	Evaluation sof file Registration Form	Arria 10 SX	Stratix V GX
4ch RAID0 by HCTL IP	4ch RAID0 Reference Design Document	Rev1.2
	4ch RAID0 Demo Instruction Document	Rev1.1
	Evaluation sof file Registration Form	Arria 10 SX Reflex Alaric	Arria V GX
	Demo Video	Intel Arria 10 SX / Reflex Alaric
exFAT for Host IP	exFAT IP Datasheet	Rev1.1
	exFAT IP Reference Design Document	Rev1.1
	exFAT IP Demo Instruction Document	Rev1.1
	Evaluation sof file Registration Form	Arria 10 SX Cyclone 10 GX
FAT32 for Host IP	FAT32 IP Datasheet	Rev1.0
	FAT32 IP Reference Design Document	Rev1.0
	FAT32 IP Demo Instruction Document	Rev1.0
	Evaluation sof file Registration Form	Arria 10 SX
AHCI	SATA+AHCI IP Datasheet	Rev1.2
	AHCI Reference Design Document	Rev1.3
	Demo Instruction Document	Rev1.2
	Evaluation sof file Registration Form	Arria 10 SX (61.2MB)	Cyclone V SX (57.4MB) Arria V ST (57.7MB)
	Demo Video
Document		Arria® 10 SX Cyclone®10 GX Reflex Alaric	Stratix® V GX Arria® V ST/GX Cyclone® V SX
Datasheet		Rev1.5
Host	Reference Design Document	Rev1.4
	Demo Instruction Document	Rev2.2
	Evaluation sof file Registration Form	Arria 10 SX	Stratix V GX Cyclone V SX Arria V ST Arria V GX
	Demo Video	-
RAID	4ch RAID Reference Design Document	-	Rev1.0 (ST5) Rev1.1(AR5)
	4ch RAID Demo Instruction Document	-	Rev1.0 (ST5) Rev1.1 (AR5)
	Evaluation sof file Registration Form	-	Stratix V GX Arria V GX
Document		Arria® 10 SX Cyclone®10 GX Reflex Alaric	Stratix® V GX Arria® V ST/GX Cyclone® V SX

* For Stratix® IV GX, Pleaseask DesignGateway.

Free sof file for evaluation

You can evaluate SATA-IP on Intel® FPGA development kits. Design Gateway provide time limited sof file (AB adapter board series and NIOS2 Command Shell are required).
Registration Form

Accessories for evaluation

Accessories for evaluation	Description	Purchasing
AB09-FMCRAID	FMC-SATA(10ch) adapter board for SATA-IP with RAID evaluation. Product page Download manual	Purchase
AB12-HSMCRAID	HSMC-SATA(8ch) adaptor board for Intel® FPGA development kits	Purchase

About price and licence of this IPcore, please see FAQ page and contact Design Gateway.

RAID System with SATA-IP core

By several SATA-IP core implementation on FPGA, you can scalably achieve RAID system with SATA HDD/SSD to enhance transmission speed and storage quantities. Design Gateway also provide SATA extension adaptor board for Intel FPGA development kits.







SATA-IP + 4ch RAID0 achieves ultra high-speed transmission.


SSD: Samsung 850Pro x4pcs

Application example

1to3 HDD Duplicator Application on Stratix® IV GX FPGA kit !!

As one of the application of SATA-IP, 1to3 HDD Duplicator is applicable. The demo video clip on youtube.You can download this demo bit file. For the evaluation, Extension adaptor board is necessary. (AB12-HSMCRAID). Please ask us

1to3 HDD Duplicator Application on Stratix® IV GX Video Clip on youtube

HOST controller IP to control SATA by All Hardware Logic

SATA Host Controller IP core (HCTL IP) operating with DG SATA-IP and SATA PHY is ideal for the storage system which has not internal CPU to control SATA Device access. It is recommended to use in very high-speed data recording system, and RAID controller.

Support AHCI to be able to boot up Linux from SoC Devices

SATA AHCI IP core operating with SATA IP Core is suitable for the system which has the processor running on OS and needs to have SATA device to be the system storage. By using AHCI driver to access AHCI IP, the system can access SATA device with full features and high speed performance. Both embedded CPU like ARM on SoC platform or CPU on PC can be used to be the processor for AHCI IP, so the IP can be applied for embedded storage system, RAID application, high-speed and large capacity data acquisition system.
The demo video clip is available on youtube.

Support exFAT file system