SAS to PCIe Transition: Unlocking the Power of NVMe Technology
By Rohit Gupta | Scott Glenn | Jimmy Gomez | Praveen Midha, Western Digital
Vendor:
IntelliProp Inc.
Category:
SAS
SAS 1-to-1 Speed Bridge with Sandbox
The IntelliProp SAS Bridge with Sandbox (IPP-SS115A-BR) design provides SAS compliant connections to a SAS host and a SAS device.
Overview
The IntelliProp SAS Bridge with Sandbox (IPP-SS115A-BR) design provides SAS compliant connections to a SAS host and a SAS device. The host and device connections are speed independent allowing for speed bridging on the SAS connection. Internal visibility to frame contents allows customers to intercept, analyze or manipulate frames on the SAS connection.
Key features
- • Allows users to intercept data between the SAS Host and Device
- • Fully compliant to SAS Gen-3 (12GHz) industry specifications.
- • With correct FPGA, Bridge is capable of SAS Gen-3 (12GHz)
- • Industry proven and compliant SAS interfaces
- • Automatically performs OOB and speed negotiation
- • Independent speed negotiation on each SAS connection
- • Visibility to all frames allows customers to develop value-added features
Applications
- The Sandbox feature of the IPP-SS115A-BR SAS Speed Bridge may be utilized with customer specific algorithms to:
- • Allow encryption of data on the main drive, thereby preventing unauthorized access
- • Offload data from the main drive onto other media without suffering performance loss when accessing the main drive
- • Compress data whereby less space is utilized on the main drive while maintaining high performance
What’s Included?
- • RTL encrypted code
- • Synthesis or place and route script
- • Comprehensive user documentation
Files
Note: some files may require an NDA depending on provider policy.
Specifications
Identity
Part Number
IPP-SS115A-BR
Vendor
IntelliProp Inc.
Type
Silicon IP
Provider
IntelliProp Inc.
HQ:
USA
IntelliProp is a Colorado-based company founded in 1998 to provide ASIC design and verification services for the storage industry. The company is headquartered in Longmont, Colorado, strategically placed in the heart of an area dominated by major storage manufacturers.
The primary focus of IntelliProp is to provide storage IP and products. Capitalizing on the 50+ years of combined storage expertise of IntelliProp’s engineers, IntelliProp provides a wide-range of industry-proven storage products and interface cores. Our customers are provided with the flexibility of integrating our products into a multitude of FPGA families, along with using our engineers' extensive design and verification experience to create their own ASICs. IntelliProp continues to gain recognition as a leading expert in the storage industry, and actively participates in committees for creating new and maintaining existing storage protocols.
Learn more about SAS IP core
Video: Cadence Demonstrates PCIe Gen3 Silicon at PCI-SIG Dev-Con (SAS RAID Controller)
Embedded Security explained: IPsec and IKEv2 for embedded Systems
Embedded Security explained: Learn about IPsec and IKEv2 for embedded systems, including key components, operational modes, and deployment challenges.
ReGate: Enabling Power Gating in Neural Processing Units
In this paper, the authors present ReGate, which enables fine-grained power-gating of each hardware component in NPU chips with hardware/software co-design.
Bringing IPsec into the Quantum Safe Era
Over the next five years, all security protocols and public key cryptography will undergo a comprehensive overhaul to ensure quantum safety. This represents the most significant change in these domains since the advent of public key cryptography.
The Benefits of a Multi-Protocol PMA
At Silicon Creations, we have developed a power and area optimized, flexible and programmable PMA (Physical Medium Attachment) architecture that can be reliably ported to different process nodes and scaled across protocol generations as data rates increase. It is called the Multi-Protocol PMA, or MP-PMA for short.
Frequently asked questions about SAS IP cores
What is SAS 1-to-1 Speed Bridge with Sandbox?
SAS 1-to-1 Speed Bridge with Sandbox is a SAS IP core from IntelliProp Inc. listed on Semi IP Hub.
How should engineers evaluate this SAS?
Engineers should review the overview, key features, supported foundries and nodes, maturity, deliverables, and provider information before shortlisting this SAS IP.
Can this semiconductor IP be compared with similar products?
Yes. Buyers can compare this product with similar semiconductor IP cores or IP families based on category, provider, process options, and structured technical specifications.