Serial ATA Host Controller: A Hardware Implementation

This paper presents a pilot project in the serial advanced technology attachment interface controllers. It implements the SATA host controller based on the SATA2.5 standard. It shows how to enhance the hardware performance in both the implementation and the verification phases. Complete register transfer logic implementation of the host controller architecture is written in Verilog. PSL assertions are applied to fully test and verify the design. The design is being realized on Xilinx Virtex-II Pro FPGA