The CE-ATA Plugfest is intended to bring market leaders in the CE-ATA industry together to ensure proper inter-operation among their respective products, according to Arasan.
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CE-ATA HDK
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At this week's CE-ATA Plugfest, Arasan will showcase its CE-ATA Host IP core that has been prototyped on an FPGA board. The simple PCI-based CE-ATA board is bundled with a proprietary CE-ATA stack for Windows CE 5.0, and offered as a CE-ATA Host Hardware Development Kit (HDK). The board can be plugged into any x86 PC, and used for CE-ATA development and testing.
The CE-ATA HDK is already in use by several CE-ATA hard drive vendors, according to the company.
CE-ATA Host IP core block diagram
(Click image for larger view)Arasan says its CE-ATA Host Controller IP conforms to CE-ATA Digital Protocol revision 1.0, with support for CE-ATA Digital Protocol commands (CMD39 / CMD60 / CMD61). In addition to CE-ATA, the core supports Flash-based storage cards, and provides support for current SD, SDIO, and MMC 4.x card standards.
CE-ATA was
jointly announced in September 2004 by Toshiba, Hitachi, Seagate, Marvell, and Intel. The interface provides reduced pin count, better power utilization, voltages tailored to battery-based applications, and more efficient command protocol, according to Arasan. Further details on CE-ATA are available on the
CE-ATA website.
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