BOARDCOM BCM5770

BCM5770/BCM5770R
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HIGH-PERFORMANCE 8/4-PORT SATA-I ← → PCI-X® CONTROLLERS
FEATURES (CONTINUED)
BCM5770/BCM5770R FEATURES
• Industry's first 0.13µ CMOS SATA-I Controllers
• 8 (BCM5770) and 4 (BCM5770R) ports
• Integrated high-performance 1.5G SATA PHY
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• Enhanced support for driving backplanes
Host interfaces
• PCI-X 1.0 66, 100, and 133 MHz
• PCI 2.3 32-bit and 64-bit interfaces
High-performance QDMA™ engine lowers CPU utilization,
increases IOPS and throughput
• Ultra-deep command queues for command queuing
• 256 independent command queue entries per port
• Independent scatter gather DMA engines
• Advanced interrupt coalescing algorithms
Automatic status block update
• Decrease CPU utilization associated with READ wait time
• Increase efficiency of PCI-X host interface
Integrated PRBS generator and monitor
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• Hot-plug support
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Enclosure management support
8-port and 4-port versions are pin-compatible
324 P-BGA packages
1.68W max (BCM5770)
1.36W max (BCM5770R)
Driver support
• Windows®
• Linux®
APPLICATIONS
• Embedded on a motherboard
• DAS RAID HBA
• External RAID storage
BCM5770/BCM5770R Block Diagram
Data FIFO
DMA Channels
CMD & PRD RAM
Data FIFO
SATA
Transport
SATA
Link Layer
Link SM
CRC
LFSR
8B/10B
SATA
Link Layer
Link SM
CRC
LFSR
8B/10B
SATA PHY
HOST ARBITER (1 GB/s)
133 MH
PCI-X INTERFACE
64b
SATA
Transport
SATA PHY
DMA Channels
CMD & PRD RAM
1.5 Gb/s
Port1
Port8
1.5 Gb/s
OVERVIEW
External Storage System
Server Storage
PCI-X
BCM5770
BCM5770
BCM5770
BCM5770
FC/iSCSI
FC/iSCSI
Controller
Controller
CPU
BCM5770
BCM5770
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BCM5770/BCM5770R Applications
The BCM5770/BCM5770R is a highly integrated, multiport SATA-I
controller that has been designed for high performance storage
applications requiring low host CPU utilization and maximum I/O
performance.
The device communicates with the host via a 64-bit, 133-MHz PCI-X1.0
bus interface. It attaches directly to a maximum of eight SATA-I disk
drives or to backplanes on the target side via a high-performance,
integrated SATA PHY that is capable of driving long-length backplanes.
Additionally, the BCM5770/BCM5770R supports hot-plug capability,
enabling SATA disk drives to be inserted and removed from a storage
rack or server without affecting system operation.
A high-bandwidth host arbiter (1 GB/s) decouples the PCI-X host
interface from the SATA ports, enabling maximum throughput for
workloads demanding sequential I/O performance.
Data from/to the drives are broken into 8-KB data FISes on the SATA
links. The PCIX interface is arbitrated based on a round robin or LRU
algorithm. Data is transferred in 512-byte blocks on the PCIX, thereby
allowing fairness among the data channels.
The BCM5770/BCM5770R provides an interrupt coalescing mechanism
to pace the host interrupts it generates. This allows host software to
batch-process interrupts efficiently. In addition, the BCM5770/
BCM5770R incorporates a mechanism to reduce IO reads by
periodically DMAing the BCM5770/BCM5770R status block into host
memory. Both of these mechanisms vastly reduce the host CPU
utilization by limiting the amount of adaptor accesses that must be
performed.
A Low Pin Count (LPC) Interface Specification 1.0 compliant interface
is available to connect the BCM5770/BCM5770R to an external flash/
ROM up to 128 KB. Three general-purpose I/O pins with tri-state
capability are available and can be specially configured to drive LEDs.
An I2 C master interface is also available to communicate with an
external enclosure management device or with a serial EEPROM.
On-board power supply regulators are available that generate local 2.5V
and 1.2V rails, allowing the entire chip to run from a single external 3.3V
power source.
Built-in PRBS or pseudo-random bit sequence test generators/checkers
are available per port for PHY testing without the use of additional
hardware or drives. These are programmed from the in-band PCI
interface.
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