TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ABSTRACT.......................................................................................................................iii
LIST OF TABLES..............................................................................................................vi
LIST OF FIGURES...........................................................................................................vii
1. INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................1
2. BACKGROUND.............................................................................................................3
2.1 The DAS Board for NASA..................................................................................3
2.2 SATA Overview....................................................................................................6
2.2.1 Notes on Terminology.......................................................................................8
3. SATA DETAILS.............................................................................................................10
3.1 Physical Layer....................................................................................................10
3.1.1 Out-of-Band Signaling....................................................................................10
3.1.1.1 The OOB Sequence.................................................................................12
3.1.2 8b/10b Encoding..............................................................................................14
3.1.2.1 The Comma and the ALIGN primitive....................................................15
3.1.3 Spread-Spectrum Clocking..............................................................................17
3.2 Link Layer..........................................................................................................18
3.2.1 Flow Control....................................................................................................22
3.2.2 CRC.................................................................................................................24
3.2.3 Scrambling.......................................................................................................24
3.3 Transport Layer..................................................................................................25
3.4 SATA Conclusion...............................................................................................27
4. PREVIOUS WORK.......................................................................................................28
4.1 XAPP 716...........................................................................................................28
4.2 The UNC Core....................................................................................................30
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