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IS3Serial ATA III
This course covers SATA III
Objectives
  • This course explains how SATA maintains compatibility with IDE software management .
  • The hardware layer is detailed, including the analog part and Out-Of-Band signals operation.
  • The FIS is analyzed in order to understand the dialog between Host Controller and mass storage device.
  • The course clarifies the programming interface specified by the Advanced Host Controller Interface .
  • The Gen3 physical layer specification and testing requirements are particularly detailed.
  • The course describes the low power modes.

  • It has been delivered several times to companies developing SoCs for wireless / consumer market.
Timing diagrams are taken from a PC implementing a SATA interface thanks to the Lecroy analyser.
A more detailed course description is available on request at training@ac6-training.com
  • Experience of a serial bus like USB or Ethernet is recommended.
  • Theoretical course
    • PDF course material (in English) supplemented by a printed version for face-to-face courses.
    • Online courses are dispensed using the Teams video-conferencing system.
    • The trainer answers trainees' questions during the training and provide technical and pedagogical assistance.
  • At the start of each session the trainer will interact with the trainees to ensure the course fits their expectations and correct if needed
  • Any embedded systems engineer or technician with the above prerequisites.
  • The prerequisites indicated above are assessed before the training by the technical supervision of the traineein his company, or by the trainee himself in the exceptional case of an individual trainee.
  • Trainee progress is assessed by quizzes offered at the end of various sections to verify that the trainees have assimilated the points presented
  • At the end of the training, each trainee receives a certificate attesting that they have successfully completed the course.
    • In the event of a problem, discovered during the course, due to a lack of prerequisites by the trainee a different or additional training is offered to them, generally to reinforce their prerequisites,in agreement with their company manager if applicable.

Course Outline

  • Parallel ATA limitations
  • Faster HDD access and logical block addressing (LBA)
  • ATAPI for support of other peripheral devices
  • Programmed Input / output, direct memory access (UDMA)
  • Revisions of the SATA specification
  • Compatibility with SAS
  • Architectural layering
  • Hot plugging
  • Port multiplier
  • Usage model description
  • Cable and connectors
  • Analog front end
  • Electrical signalling
  • Separate point-to-point AC-coupled LVDS links
  • Spread Spectrum Clocking
  • Elastic buffer
  • Loopback mode
  • Test pattern requirements
  • Testing Gen3
  • Jitter considerations
  • Explaining the various tests used to qualify transmitter and receiver
  • COMRESET sequence
  • COMINIT sequence
  • COMWAKE sequence
  • 8b/10b coding
  • Scrambling
  • Primitives description and utilization
  • Arbitration sequence
  • FIS flow control
  • Transitions to low power modes
  • PATA emulation
  • Interrupt virtualization
  • Introduction to FIS transfer
  • Interaction with Command layer
  • Retry protocol
  • Possible PIPE clocks and data bus widths
  • Reset sequence
  • Power management
  • Changing signalling rate
  • Error detection
  • Loopback
  • System memory structures
  • Native Command Queuing
  • FIS-based switching
  • Command completion coalescing
  • Power management
  • Interrupt management
  • Data transfer operation
  • Error reporting
  • ATA-8 command set
  • Reset protocol, diagnostic protocol, PIO protocol, DMA protocol, PACKET protocol
  • First party DMA
  • Boot sequence capture and analyzis
Duration
2 days
Inquiry

This course can be scheduled upon request. Click the 'Inquire' button to contact us.

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To book a training session or for more information, please contact us on info@ac6-training.com.

Registrations are accepted till one week before the start date for scheduled classes. For late registrations, please consult us.

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This course can be provided either remotely, in our Paris training center or worldwide on your premises.

Scheduled classes are confirmed as soon as there is two confirmed bookings. Bookings are accepted until 1 week before the course start.

Last update of course schedule: 18 October 2017

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