SteelVine™Device Bridge
Serial ATA (SATA) to Parallel ATA device bridge
The SiI3811 is a single-chip Serial ATA to Parallel ATA device bridge solution that com-
bines the transport, link, and PHY layers of Serial ATA with a Parallel ATA interface. The
SiI3811 enables manufacturers to connect widely available, low-cost Parallel ATA devices
like DVD/CD-ROM and hard disk drives to industry standard Serial ATA controllers such
as those available in the PC’s south bridge. As a member of Silicon Image’s SteelVine
family of Serial ATA products, the SiI3811 has undergone extensive interoperability testing
and provides the industry’s most robust device bridge solution.
Applications
• Disk drives
• Storage systems
• PC motherboards
• DVD and cable box
system boards
• CD/DVD RW drives
Key Features
• Serial ATA to
Parallel ATA bridge
• Supports ATA
queued commands
• Serial ATA, 1.5Gbps
• Small 64-pin
package
• Low power
Product Brief
The SiI3811 supports Serial ATA transfer rates of
1.5 Gbps (150 MB/s) with its on-board serializer /
de-serializer. It features an ultra ATA/133 Parallel
ATA port to interface with devices such as hard
disk and DVD/CD-ROM drives. The SiI3811
accepts Serial ATA commands from the host’s
Serial ATA interface, decodes the commands and
converts them to parallel ATA device commands.
Device responses through the parallel ATA bus are
deciphered, processed, converted to the Serial ATA
protocol and sent to the SATA host controller.
At the physical layer, the SiI3811 leverages much
of the circuit innovation of Silicon Image's propri-
etary reduced overhead Multi-Layer Serial Link
(MSL™) architecture, pioneered and proven
through the company’s market-leading HDMI and
SATA products. MSL technology is a multi-layer
approach to providing robust, cost-effective,
multi-gigabit semiconductor solutions on a single
chip for high-bandwidth applications.
System Diagram - SiI3811 in a PC
SiI3811
System Diagram - SiI3811 in an External Device
SiI3811 Starter Kit
The CP3811SATA150 Starter Kit
includes hardware and docu-
mentation to quickly design and
launch a SATA bridge solution.
Contents include:
Hardware
• SiI3811 evaluation board
• Serial ATA cable
Documentation
• SiI3811 data sheet
• SiI3811 evaluation board
• User's guide
SiI3811 Features
General
• Serial ATA – 1.5 Gbps (150 MB/s)
• Compliant with the Serial ATA 1.0a
specification
• Integrated Serial ATA transport, link logic,
and PHY layers
• Ultra ATA/133 compatible parallel interface
• Supports ATA queued commands
• Supports ATAPI devices with multiple options
for DMA direction
• 48-bit sector addressing
• Supports spread spectrum clocking in receiver
to reduce EMI
• Single digital PLL architecture with low jitter
• Full ESD tolerance to 2kV
• Minimal power draw maximizes battery life
in laptop applications
• Supports SATA power managements partial
and slumber
• Small 64-pin package
• Supports SATA device hot plug
• Improves performance through efficient link
layer handling of FIS traffic and minimizes
delay cycles on PATA bus during data transfer
Power
• Core: 1.8V
• I/O: 3.3V operating voltage with 5V tolerance
Package
• 64-Pin, 9x9mm QFN (quad flat no-lead )
© 2006 Silicon Image, Inc. All rights reserved. Silicon Image, the Silicon Image logo, SteelVine, the SteelVine logo, SiI and SiI3811are trademarks or registered trademarks of Silicon Image, Inc. in the United States
and other countries. Other trademarks are property of their respective holders. Product specifications are subject to change without notice.
Part Number: SiI3811 SiI PB-58 rev1 8/06
Silicon Image, Inc.
1060 E. Arques Avenue
Sunnyvale, CA 94085
T 408.616.4000
F 408.830.9530
www.siliconimage.com
SiI3811 Block Diagram
