SATA Bridge With NCQ by IntelliProp

IntelliProp Inc., in semiconductors for storage applications, announced the availability of a SATA Bridge with Native Command Queuing (NCQ), the IPA-SA117A-BR.

The was developed at IntelliProp’s Longmont, CO design center using its internally developed SATA interface cores and logic.

The IPA-SA117A-BR provides bridging between a SATA Gen-III (6GHZ) host and a number of SATA storage drives. Code named Hydra, it presents itself, looks and acts as a single, larger capacity SATA storage device. It supports DSM-TRIM commands, SMART and allows direct drive access for maintenance or vendor commands.

"The IPA-SA117A- BR is a very high performance device and allows SSD manufacturers to build cost effective 2TB and 4TB drives today in 2.5" and 3.5" form factors," remarked Larry Cleland, director, sales and marketing, IntelliProp.

Higher capacity drives can be created, "by cascading a number of IPA-SA117A-BR devices, which can make the number of SATA connections manageable in applications such as multi-TB storage appliances where 30 to 60+ individual SSD DIMM drives need to be addressed by a host," continued Cleland.

Throughput of 550MB/s+ is accomplished with little latency as all read and write I/Os are completed in hardware without the need for firmware intervention.

SATA Bridge with NCQ customer designs are supported through an implementation guide; reference design, including schematics, board layout files BOM; and ‘bring up’ programming files.

The SATA Bridge with NCQ is available

IntelliProp is exhibiting at Flash Memory Summit, August 21-23 in Santa Clara, CA.