This document discusses the history and technical details of Serial ATA (SATA) storage interfaces. It covers:
- The evolution of parallel ATA standards over time and their limitations that led to SATA.
- The key benefits of SATA including smaller connectors, higher speeds, and support for multiple devices via point-to-point connections.
- An overview of the SATA architecture and protocol stack, including the physical, link, and transport layers.
- Details of the physical layer such as connectors, cabling, and out-of-band signaling.
- How the link layer implements 8b/10b encoding, scrambling, frame structure, and flow control primitives.
This document discusses the history and technical details of Serial ATA (SATA) storage interfaces. It covers:
- The evolution of parallel ATA standards over time and their limitations that led to SATA.
- The key benefits of SATA including smaller connectors, higher speeds, and support for multiple devices via point-to-point connections.
- An overview of the SATA architecture and protocol stack, including the physical, link, and transport layers.
- Details of the physical layer such as connectors, cabling, and out-of-band signaling.
- How the link layer implements 8b/10b encoding, scrambling, frame structure, and flow control primitives.
The document discusses Bluespec, a hardware description language that allows for writing RTL designs from a higher level of abstraction. It covers Bluespec's toolchain which can generate Verilog code and perform simulation and synthesis. It also discusses Bluespec's strong type system and parallel programming model based on rules. The sample code shows how to write a bubble sort module in Bluespec using registers, rules, and scheduling constructs.