Marvell 88SS9187

Marvell 88SS9187
SSD 6 Gb/s SATA Controller
PRODUCT OVERVIEW
The Marvell® 88SS9187 6 Gb/s SATA controller features an open, world-class architecture that supports industry
standard, high-speed NAND flash interfaces up to 200 MB/s per channel. The 88SS9187 integrates a dual-core
Marvell 88FR102 V5 CPU with shared DTCM and ITCM SRAM. The 88SS9187 also includes a high-performance ECC
engine with adaptive read and write scheme. The on-chip RAID functionality supports the latest generation of NAND
flash devices in the fast-growing solid state drive (SSD) markets. In addition to its breakthrough performance, the
88SS9187 features the industry’s lowest active and stand-by power consumption at this performance level, meeting
the requirements of the most demanding high-growth Ultrabook computer market. Leveraging Marvell’s expertise in
delivering high-performance, low cost and low power silicon solutions, the 88SS9187 brings leading-edge SSD
acceleration technology to high-end computing devices for enterprise, mobile, and mainstream consumer markets.
block diagram
SATA Host
up to 6 Gbps
SATA
UART
CPU 0
CPU 1
Sequencer
RAID
I2C
SPI
JTAG
DDR
DDR2/3-800
AES
DMAC
SPM
NAND
ECC
PWR
MGMT
GPIO
NAND
TIMER
ONFI 2.0/Toggle
up to Mode 5
Marvell 88SS9187
KEY FEATURES AND BENEFITS
SPECIAL FEATURES
BENEFITS
• Industry leading technologies
• On-chip RAID technology for NAND devices with flexible customer firmware
based algorithms for retiring defective NAND blocks, plane, die, or device
• Provides the maximum sequential read performance for a
SATA 6 Gb/s device
• ~500 MBps of sequential write performance, even at dirty drive conditions
• Includes best in-class random read and write IOPS
• Flash Channel
• Supports up to eight NAND flash channels
• Hardware support offloads firmware from low-level NAND to reduce
interrupt handling.
• Supports programmable drive strengths of IOs for different NAND
flash devices and application dependent configurations
• Allows programming of T1–T7 to support different NAND flash devices
• Native Embedded SATA (ESAT)
• Supports ATA-7 commands
• Supports EPP and T10 CRC checks
• Hot plug capability
• Supports spread spectrum clocking
• Transport layer supports native command queuing and first party DMA
• Built-in queued command SRAM (128 x 32), accessible from both CPU0
and CPU1
• Buffer Manager
• Supports DDR2-800 and DDR3-800
• Allows up to 1 GB memory, allowing performance optimized
mapping algorithms
• 32-bit internal buffer data bus for higher bandwidth at a lower clock rate
• Programmable DLL for DQS
• Unlimited Link List
• Supports hardware data streaming
• Trusted Computing Group (TCG) Standards
• OTP (One-Time Programmable) for secure drive configuration
• AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) encryption hardware
• Media re-encryption hardware support
applications
The 88SS9187 delivers optimal solutions for a broad range of solid state drive (SSD) applications in the mobile and
enterprise segments.
• Notebook and ultra-portable computing
• mSATA full-size and half-size applications
• Custom form factors for low-profile applications
• Cost-effective enterprise applications such as caching solutions
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worldwide field application engineers collaborate closely with end customers to develop and deliver new leading-edge products for quick
time-to-market. Marvell utilizes world-leading semiconductor foundry and packaging services to reliably deliver high-volume and low-cost
total solutions.
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