Product Brief
SiI0680
SteelVine
™
Host Controller
Ultra ATA/133 PCI-to-ATA Host Controller
• PC motherboards
• PC add-in card
• Embedded storage
Applications
Silicon Image’s SiI0680 is a standalone Ultra ATA/133 host controller designed to accom-
modate the transfer of large amounts of content-rich data common in today’s multimedia
applications. The SiI0680 provides OEMs with a fast, new interface incorporating the latest
advancements in hard disk technology. Based on the Ultra ATA/133 interface specifica-
tion, the SiI0680 supports a 133 MB/s burst transfer rate and features 48-bit sector
addressing, thereby enabling the utilization of drives with capacities greater than 137 GB.
applications
Key Features
• Supports ATA/133
• Provides 48-bit
addressing
The SiI0680 is a single-chip solution for designs
based on chipsets without an integrated ATA host
controller, or those requiring a greater number of
ATA channels to accommodate the growing num-
ber of storage peripherals with an ATA interface.
By simply adding a card with the SiI0680 and
loading the accompanying driver, any system with
a PCI bus interface may upgrade to the Ultra
ATA/133 interface.
The SiI0680 enables PC manufacturers to support
as many as four drives and incorporate the newest
drive standards—all at a lower cost. With the
SiI0680, other manufacturers, such as mother-
board, add-in card and embedded application
companies, can incorporate a cost-effective, hard
disk drive solution without sacrificing perform-
ance or flexibility.
For enhanced performance, the SiI0680 can be
packaged with Silicon Image’s robust Medley™
ATA software RAID, which optimizes throughput
and data redundancy. Supporting RAID sets of up
to four hard disk drives, Medley enables RAID 0
Striping, RAID 1 Mirroring and RAID 0+1
Mirrored Striping.
• Supports external
flash
• Includes Windows
OS drivers
SiI0680 System Diagram
SiI0680
SiI0680 Starter Kit
The starter kit includes hard-
ware, software and documenta-
tion to quickly bring ATA/133
and 48-bit sector-addressing
compliance to computer sys-
tems, motherboards, add-in
cards and embedded solutions.
Contents Include:
Hardware
• Reference design board
• Two ATA cables
Software
• Operating system drivers for
DOS, Windows 95/98, ME,
NT4, 2000 and XP
• Configuration utility
• Flash utility
- Base BIOS
- Medley RAID BIOS
• RAID operating system
drivers for Windows 98,
ME, NT4, 2000, and XP
Documentation
• SiI0680 install guide
• Medley ATA software RAID
users guide
• SiI0680 data sheet
Features
General
PCI Bus
• ATA/133
• 48-bit sector addressing
• Dual independent DMA channels with 256B
FIFO per channel
• Virtual DMA
• Read ahead
• Command buffering
• Supports temperature from 0°c to 70°c
• Supports external Flash
• Supports external BIOS
• 80-pin cable detect
Transfer Rates
• 32-bit, 33 MHz
• PCI 2.2 compliant
Power
• 3.3V Operating Voltage with 5V tolerant I/O
• ACPI: PCI Bus Power Management Spec 1.1
compliant
Package
• 144-pin, 20x20 mm LQFP (Low profile Quad
Flat Pack)
RAID (with Silicon Image's Medley™ ATA
software RAID)
•
•
•
•
PIO-0, 1, 2, 3, 4
MDMA Mode 0, 1, 2
Ultra 33, 66, 100 and 133
Supports bus master DMA at 133 MB/sec
burst rate
• RAID 0 (Striping)
• RAID 1 (Mirroring)
• RAID 0+1 (Mirrored-Striping)
SiI0680 Circuit Diagram
Silicon Image, Inc.
1060 E. Arques Avenue
Sunnyvale, CA 94085
T 408.616.4000
F 408.830.9530
www.siliconimage.com
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Part Number: SiI0680CL144
SiI PB-12 rev2 8/06