Exar Introduces SATA Host Controller to EXstor Storage Product Portfolio – XRS10L620 Supports SATA, IDE, and PCI Interfaces
Exar expanded its EXstor storage product offering with the introduction of an AHCI compliant SATA host controller.
High Performance, Cost-Effective Host Controller Targets Consumer and Industrial Applications
Exar expanded its EXstor storage product offering with the introduction of an AHCI compliant SATA host controller. The XRS10L620 is a two-channel SATA, one-channel IDE controller with a PCI-X compliant interface. It can seamlessly interoperate with all SATA port multipliers targeting a wide variety of data storage environments including data management systems for consumer, industrial as well as Small Medium Business (SMB) enterprise applications.
The XRS10L620 SATA/IDE host controller with a high throughput PCI-X bus and Gen-2 compliant SATA ports offers customers maximum design flexibility for their storage applications. As a cost-effective AHCI compliant host controller, the XRS10L620 is ideally suited for video surveillance, DVR, external SATA/IDE RAID or CD/DVD duplication equipment, as well as Host Bus Adapters (HBAs).
Product Highlights
The XRS10L620 PCI-X compliant host controller can connect up to four systems at the same time: two SATA devices and two IDE/ATAPI devices. The SATA ports conform to Gen1i/Gen1m/Gen2i/Gen2m specifications. The IDE channel supports the maximum transfer rate of 133 MB/s. The controller supports simultaneous data transfer through two SATA ports and an IDE port to a PCI-X bus. Each SATA port of the XRS10L620 supports hot-plug/un-plug and can drive up to two meters of eSATA cable. The XRS10L620 achieves its peak performance when driving SATA HDDs supporting Native Command Queuing (NCQ). The PCI-X compliant 32-bit bus interface complies with multiple clocking rates of 33 MHz, 66 MHz and 100 MHz.
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