The IntelliProp IPC-SS105A-HI SAS Initiator IP Core is a production-hardened storage controller engineered to enable reliable, high-speed connectivity to Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) and Serial ATA (SATA) target devices, including SSDs, HDDs, and tape drives. Architected for deterministic data path throughput, the core manages lower-level SAS protocol layers directly in hardware logic, maximizing storage bandwidth while significantly reducing host CPU utilization.
Managing a SAS storage stack entirely in software introduces unpredictable latencies and processor bottlenecks, especially in high-throughput enterprise and real-time embedded environments. The IPC-SS105A-HI resolves this by abstracting deep protocol complexities across Serial Management Protocol (SMP), Serial SCSI Protocol (SSP), and Serial ATA Tunneling Protocol (STP). This allows engineering teams to deploy enterprise serial storage interfaces without requiring granular expertise in lower-level link training, primitive sequence handshaking, or physical register compliance.
Fully compliant with standard Serial Attached SCSI specifications, the core features a clean, fully synchronous synthesizable design. It is optimized for seamless placement, predictable timing closure, and rapid integration across industry-leading FPGA fabrics and custom host ASIC architectures.
Features
- Protocol Compliance: Fully compliant with standard Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) specifications, including 3.0 Gbps, 6.0 Gbps, and 12.0 Gbps line rates.
- Multi-Protocol Target Support: Supports Serial SCSI Protocol (SSP) for SAS drives, Serial ATA Tunneling Protocol (STP) for SATA targets, and Serial Management Protocol (SMP) for SAS expanders.
- Automated Link Management: Integrated hardware state machines manage speed negotiation, OOB (Out-of-Band) signaling, and primitive sequence handshaking automatically without software intervention.
- Hardware Protocol Acceleration: Offloads frame construction, CRC generation/checking, and connection management directly into dedicated hardware state machines.
- Flexible Physical Layer Interoperability: Interfaces cleanly with standard transceiver and SerDes physical layers via flexible PHY interface standards.
- Decoupled Clock Domains: Incorporates high-efficiency independent FIFO structures to ensure reliable, error-free data movement across distinct clock domain boundaries.
- Hardware Diagnostics & Bring-Up Tools: Built-in self-test (BIST) capabilities accelerate physical board bring-up, loopback testing, and system-level PHY validation.
- Synchronous Synthesizable RTL: Delivered as high-quality, fully synchronous Verilog source code or netlist optimized for predictable timing closure on modern FPGAs and custom ASICs.
Deliverables
- Production-Ready Maturity: Extensively verified using a coverage-driven methodology in pseudo-random simulation environments.
- Flexible Delivery: Fully synthesizable RTL optimized for clean timing closure across modern FPGA and custom ASIC architectures.
- 100% U.S.-Based Engineering: All design, technical integration, and post-sales support are handled directly by our primary engineering teams operating out of our Longmont, Colorado facilities.
- Defense-Industry Compliant: Development workflow and documentation adhere to standards required for U.S. defense, aerospace, and ITAR-controlled integration.
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