SiI5744 Features
Serial ATA Host Interface Features
Electrical Specifications
eSATA-Based
Capacity
Expansion
• Serial ATA Gen2m compliance
• GPIO pins: 9 GPI, 6 GPO
• 3.3V IO Supply, 1.8V Core Supply
• 1.02 watts (typical)
• eSATA and 2-meter cable support
• 3 Gbps (auto-negotiates to 1.5 Gbps)
With eSATA-based Capacity
Expansion, the capacity of a
SiI5744 enabled appliance can
be easily expanded either by
adding additional drives directly
to the chip, or by adding addi-
• Compatible with PM aware and non-PM
aware hosts
Environmental
• Allows multiple drives to be accessed by non-
PM aware drive hosts
• Operating temperature: 0ºC to 70ºC
• Operating relative humidity: 5% to 80%
• Non-operating relative humidity: 5% to 95%
• Supports NCQ
USB Host Interface Features
Physical Specifications
tional
SteelVine
enabled
devices in a cascaded topol-
ogy. These additional drives or
• Complies with USB 2.0 specification
• 480 Mb/s (can auto-negotiate to 12 Mb/s)
• Compatible with OHCI / UHCI / EHCI hosts
• Supports up to four LUNs
• 88-pin QFN, 10mm x 10mm
devices
will
dynamically
Additional SteelVine features
appear (in BIG, SAFE33 or
SAFE50) to the host system
as increased storage capac-
ity in the existing SteelVine
volume.
• No driver, BIOS or software required
• User API interface through I2C
• No drive reformatting on RAID change
• Email Notification
• Supports Mass Storage Class
Device Interface Features
• Serial ATA Gen2m compliance
• eSATA and 2-meter cable support
• 3 Gbps (auto-negotiates to 1.5 Gbps)
• Independent 8KB FIFO / Port
• Power management capabilities
• Supports hot plug
• Optional XML API
• RAID 1 drive racing
• Optional SteelVine Manager GUI
• Mandatory SMART commands available
• SAFE later
• Supports ATAPI & asynchronous notification
Capacity Expansion Diagram
Block Diagram
Silicon Image, Inc.
1060 E. Arques Avenue
Sunnyvale, CA 94085
T 408.616.4000
F 408.830.9530
www.siliconimage.com
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Part Number: SiI5744
SiI PB-60 rev1 8/06
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