INIC-2430

The Initio INIC-2430 provides an advanced solution to connect ATAPI or ATA (IDE/EIDE) devices to IEEE-1394a with integrated 32-bit CPU and embedded SRAM. To provide high performance and cost effective solution, the INIC-2430 integrates 1394a link core, ATA control block and microprocessor into a single ASIC. The INIC-2430 delivers the data transfer rate up to 800Mbits/sec on Firewire 800 (1394) interface (100Mbytes/sec), while its ATA interface supports ultra DMA modes (33/66/100/133 MB/sec).

Features Summary | FW/SW Support | Device Support

Features Summary


  • IEEE Std 1394-1995 and IEEE 1394b Compliant
  • Support industry standard FireWire 800 PHY
  • Support Asynchronous Transfers at 100, 200, 400 and 800 Mbit/s
  • Perform 1394b Cycle Master
  • Implements SBP3/SBP2 stack to optimize the performance
  • SBP-3 faststart support
  • Shadow RAM for fast code fetch
  • Programmable wait state for CPU to access registers, external SRAM, and Flash
  • ATA/ATAPI-7 d1532r2, vol. 1 & 2 compliant
  • Support ATA DMA modes 0-2, and UDMA 133/100/66/33(Note that mode 6, 133 MBytes/s, is only supported when running 1394b mode)
  • Support ATA PIO mode 0-4
  • Integrated internal ARM7TDMI 32-bit CPU with embedded SRAM
  • Implement the firmware download mechanism
  • Power Management
  • Low power CMOS operating at 3.3 and 2.5 Volts
  • 144-pin LQFP or 144-pin TFBGA packages available
  • Dual ATA Channels
  • 100 MBytes/s raw data rate read and write
  • 6 GPIO pins available with TFBGA package version
  • 4K payload size
  • Supports up to 32 MB of external SRAM and 32 MB of Flash memory
  • 16 KB of internal SRAM

 
Firmware/Software Support
 
  • 1394 Protocols support including SBP-2, SBP-3, RBC and ATA/ATAPI-7
  • Provide software utilities for downloading the upgraded firmware code

 
Device Support
 
  • Hard disk drives
  • CD-RW devices
  • DVDs
  • Removable media devices
  • Tape drives

INIC-2430 Datasheet


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