VSC7174 Overview
The VSC7174 is a single chip PCI/PCI-X to Serial ATA Host Bus Adapter that provides a robust, high-performance interface to Serial ATA Disk Drives, CD-ROMs, DVD-ROM's and Tape facilities. The device supports 8b/10b encoded data at Serial ATA v1.0 operating speeds of 1.5 Gb/s - equivalent to 150 MB/s of raw transfer performance; in addition, the VSC7174 can deliver burst transfer rates of up to 1064 MB/s.