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SiI5734 Storage Processor 

USB 2.0 and eSATA to SATA Storage processor

The SiI5734 is a low-cost, single-chip solution for single-drive external enclosures and external backup drives. This SteelVine® Storage Processor has two 3 Gbps eSATA Gen2m device ports, one 3 Gbps eSATA host port and one USB 2.0 host port. The SiI5734 features patent-pending eSATA-based capacity expansion, which allows users to easily grow the capacity of an existing SteelVine enabled device by adding additional drives. The new drives will appear to the host system as additional space in the existing SteelVine volume.

Applications: External SATA , Network Attached Storage , Storage Systems



 

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Serial ATA Host Interface Features
• Serial ATA Gen2m compliance
• eSATA and 2-meter cable support
• 3 Gbps (auto-negotiates to 1.5 Gbps)
• Compatible with PM aware and non-PM aware hosts
• Allows multiple drives to be accessed by non-PM aware drive hosts
• Supports NCQ

USB Host Interface Features
• 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
• 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 8 KB FIFO / Port
• Power management capabilities
• Supports hot plug
• Supports ATAPI & asynchronous notification

Electrical Specifications
• GPIO pins: 9 GPI, 6 GPO
• 3.3V IO supply, 1.8V core supply
• 1.02 watts (typical)

Environmental
• Operating temperature: 0ºC to 70ºC
• Operating relative humidity: 5% to 80%
• Non-operating relative humidity: 5% to 95%

Physical Specifications
• 88-pin QFN
• 10mm x 10mm

Additional SteelVine Features
• No driver, BIOS or software required
• User API interface through I2C
• No drive reformatting on RAID change
• Email Notification
• Optional XML API
• Optional SteelVine Manager GUI
• Mandatory SMART commands available
• SAFE later



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