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Ceva With SAS-3 Controller IP

For licensing

CEVA, Inc., licensor of silicon intellectual property (SIP) platform solutions and DSP cores, announced the availability of its 12Gb SAS (SAS-3) Controller IP for licensing.

                               CEVA SAS Solution
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With performance and reliability features, SAS-3 IP can enable customers to design next generation enterprise storage products in a timely and cost-effective manner.

SAS-3 is the third generation of the SAS interface, a robust, high performance serial storage interconnect which is favored in enterprise applications. Driven by the increasing performance capability of storage devices which are already saturating the 6Gb line rate of SAS-2, designers are eager to adopt 12Gb SAS-3. With more than a decade of experience in designing and licensing SATA and SAS technology to many storage solution providers, CEVA has leveraged this expertise to deliver a controller IP solution for 12Gb SAS IP.

"Our latest SAS-3 IP affirms our commitment and unique expertise in the SAS controller space," said Aviv Malinovitch, VP operations and GM, communications division, CEVA. "Our previous generations of SATA/SAS technology achieved significant market success, deployed in millions of devices to date. Our SAS-3 IP builds on this success and early customer engagements with leading industry players have provided excellent feedback, both in relation to the comprehensive feature set of our IP and the expert support that we provide."

SAS-3 Controller IP CEVA’s SAS Controller IP provides a solution with features including SCSI SBC-2 End-to-End Protection (DIF), powerful full duplex DMA supporting Scatter/Gather operation with a flexible AMBA AXI interface, narrow and wide port support plus multiple optimizations for maximizing IO/s in both Initiator and Target (SSD) applications.

The IP contains a Phy Control Layer which implements the state machines required for SNW4 and 12Gb link training sequences. This flexible interface layer simplifies integration with 3rd party or customer’s SAS Phy.

Further, CEVA can provide an integrated solution with a number of Phy IP partners. In addition to ASIC/ASSP silicon deployment, the IP is also suitable for implementation in leading Xilinx / Altera FPGAs, employing the Phy embedded therein.

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