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Oxford claims firsts with new range of storage chips
UK-based bridge chip company Oxford Semiconductor has developed a range of SATA disk interfacing ICs that it claims offers "a significant number of technology firsts".
UK-based bridge chip company Oxford Semiconductor has developed a range of SATA disk interfacing ICs that it claims offers "a significant number of technology firsts".
Due to be launched on the market in the second quarter, the company’s 92X family of chips support the USB2.0, FireWire400 and FireWire800 standards and also for the first time External SATA.
The ARM7 processor-based 92Xs will also be the first to offer dual integrated SATA ports and hardware accelerated RAID functionality, including striping, mirroring and spanning.
The growing importance of protecting personal data has also been taken into account in the design of the chips. Oxford's top-of-the range SATA bridge chips will include transparent data encryption as a standard feature.
Mark Glover, the company’s vice president of global marketing, said: "By introducing a complete portfolio of SATA bridge chips, based on a common architectural platform, we are providing our customers with the design flexibility and software compatibility to enable them to bring new and exciting products to market in the shortest possible time."
Due to be launched on the market in the second quarter, the company’s 92X family of chips support the USB2.0, FireWire400 and FireWire800 standards and also for the first time External SATA.
The ARM7 processor-based 92Xs will also be the first to offer dual integrated SATA ports and hardware accelerated RAID functionality, including striping, mirroring and spanning.
The growing importance of protecting personal data has also been taken into account in the design of the chips. Oxford's top-of-the range SATA bridge chips will include transparent data encryption as a standard feature.
Mark Glover, the company’s vice president of global marketing, said: "By introducing a complete portfolio of SATA bridge chips, based on a common architectural platform, we are providing our customers with the design flexibility and software compatibility to enable them to bring new and exciting products to market in the shortest possible time."
