Product Brief
SiI3811
SteelVine™ Device Bridge
Applications
Serial ATA (SATA) to Parallel ATA device bridge
• Disk drives
The SiI3811 is a single-chip Serial ATA to Parallel ATA device bridge solution that com-
• Storage systems
• PC motherboards
bines the transport, link, and PHY layers of Serial ATA with a Parallel ATA interface. The
• DVD and cable box
SiI3811 enables manufacturers to connect widely available, low-cost Parallel ATA devices
like DVD/CD-ROM and hard disk drives to industry standard Serial ATA controllers such
system boards
• CD/DVD RW drives
as those available in the PC’s south bridge. As a member of Silicon Image’s SteelVine
family of Serial ATA products, the SiI3811 has undergone extensive interoperability testing
Key Features
and provides the industry’s most robust device bridge solution.
• Serial ATA to
Parallel ATA bridge
The SiI3811 supports Serial ATA transfer rates of
At the physical layer, the SiI3811 leverages much
1.5 Gbps (150 MB/s) with its on-board serializer /
of the circuit innovation of Silicon Image's propri-
de-serializer. It features an ultra ATA/133 Parallel
etary reduced overhead Multi-Layer Serial Link
ATA port to interface with devices such as hard
(MSL™) architecture, pioneered and proven
disk and DVD/CD-ROM drives. The SiI3811
through the company’s market-leading HDMI and
accepts Serial ATA commands from the host’s
SATA products. MSL technology is a multi-layer
Serial ATA interface, decodes the commands and
approach to providing robust, cost-effective,
converts them to parallel ATA device commands.
multi-gigabit semiconductor solutions on a single
Device responses through the parallel ATA bus are
chip for high-bandwidth applications.
deciphered, processed, converted to the Serial ATA
protocol and sent to the SATA host controller.
System Diagram - SiI3811 in a PC
System Diagram - SiI3811 in an External Device
• Supports ATA
queued commands
• Serial ATA, 1.5Gbps
• Small 64-pin
package
• Low power
