The Initio INIC-1610 provides an advanced solution to connect SATA devices to USB or SATA Host with integrated CPU and embedded SRAM. To provide high performance and cost effective solution, the INIC-1610 integrates USB-PHY Mass Storage Class Bulk-Only USB function, SATA link/PHY core and microprocessor into a single ASIC. The INIC-1610 provides the data transfer rate of up to 60 MB/sec connecting to a 1.5G SATA interface.

Features Summary | FW/SW Support | Device Support

Features Summary

• Integrates USB2.0 PHY IP core.
• Data transfer rate of up to 60 MB/sec on USB side, 150 MB/sec on SATA side.
• Integrated internal Turbo 8051 uP with 16KB embedded SRAM.
• Program Flash In-Line (Firmware download mechanism, USB direct for MFG Test, write .bta file.
• Local Bus Interface to Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) Flash Only.
• Support HID.
• Up to 9 GPIO pins.
• Use a single crystal for both USB and SATA.
• Provide software utilities for downloading the upgraded firmware code under USB.
• Supports SATA (bridged SATA) Hard Disk drives, CD-RW devices, DVDs, Removable media devices, BD (Blu-Ray Disc) drive
• USB 1.1 and USB 2.0 compliant.
• USB Mass Storage Class Bulk-Only Transport Specification Compliant.
• Serial ATA Revision 2.5 specification Compliant (Hot Plug is supported).
• Support SATA to SATA pass through.
• Supports SATA NCQ.
• Supports 3Gbps SATA host and 3Gbps SATA HDD.
• Support ATA/ATAPI device DMA and PIO mode.
• 4k bytes of data buffer for data transfer.
• On-Chip 3.3V to 1.8V regulator.
• 64 pin LQFP

• USB Mass Storage Class Bulk-Only Transport support
• Provide software utilities for downloading the upgraded firmware code

• Hard disk drives
• CD-RW devices
• DVDs
• Removable media devices
• Blu-Ray Disk driver

INIC-1610 Datasheet