XRS10L120 Datasheet - Exar Corporation

XRS10L120, SERIAL ATA II: 1:2 PORT MULTIPLIER

PRELIMINARY XRS10L120 SERIAL ATA II: 1:2 PORT MULTIPLIER DECEMBER 2006 REV.P1.0.1 GENERAL .
The EXAR XRS10L120 is a Serial ATA port multiplier designed for next generation enterprise class disk array systems that use SATA mid-planes.

Features

* such as staggered HDD spin-up, power management control, hot plug capability and support for legacy software. The XRS10L120 acts as a retimer, maintaining independent signaling domains between the drives themselves and the external interconnect. The high-speed serial input features selectable equali

Applications

* This function is used when one active host has to communicate with multiple SATA drives. The XRS10L120 supports up to 2 SATA drives and utilizes the full bandwidth of the host connection. The upstream ports of XRS10L120 can also be attached to a port selector (XRS10L210) or a Serial ATA Switch to p

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