SiI5744
eSATA-Based
Capacity
Expansion
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-
tional
SteelVine
enabled
Features
Serial ATA Host Interface Features
Electrical Specifications
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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
• 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
devices in a cascaded topol-
ogy. These additional drives or
devices
will
dynamically
appear (in BIG, SAFE33 or
SAFE50) to the host system
as increased storage capac-
ity in the existing SteelVine
volume.
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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
• 88-pin QFN, 10mm x 10mm
Additional SteelVine features
Device Interface Features
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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
Supports ATAPI & asynchronous notification
Block Diagram
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No driver, BIOS or software required
User API interface through I
2
C
No drive reformatting on RAID change
Email Notification
Optional XML API
RAID 1 drive racing
Optional SteelVine Manager GUI
Mandatory SMART commands available
SAFE later
Capacity Expansion 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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