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Marvell 88SE9123-NAA2 SATA 6 Gb/s RAID Controller SATA 3.0 Interface Analog Macro Circuit Analysis

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Marvell 88SE9123-NAA2 SATA 6 Gb/s RAID Controller

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Revision 1.0 Published: July 23, 2010


Table of Contents

Overview

Schematics

Cell Library

Signal Cross-Reference List

About Chipworks


Overview

List of Figures ......................................................................................................................Page 1

List of Schematics................................................................................................................Page 1

Introduction ........................................................................................................................Page 14

Brief Design Overview .......................................................................................................Page 14

Component Descriptions....................................................................................................Page 16

Device Summary................................................................................................................Page 20

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0.1.1 Package Markings

0.1.2 Package X-Ray

0.1.3 Die Markings

0.2.1 Die Photograph – Top Metal Layer

0.2.2 Annotated Die Photograph – Metal 1 Layer

List of Schematics

1.0.0 SATA Interface Block Diagram

2.0.0 SATA Transmitter 2.1.0 Main Transmitter

2.1.1 TX Output Driver

2.1.1.1 NMOS Pull-Down

2.1.2 TX Output Multiplexer

2.1.2.1 Multiplexer

2.1.3 TX Driver 1

2.1.3.1 TX Driver 1A

2.1.3.2 TX Driver 1B

2.1.4 TX Driver 2

2.1.4.1 TX_PATH1C

2.1.5 TX 2 to 8 Converter

2.1.5.1 Clocked Buffer

2.1.6 TX Driver Clocks

2.1.6.1 Logic Gate

2.1.7 Bias Switch

2.1.8 Level Shifter

2.1.9 Pull-Up Control

2.1.10 Termination Control

2.1.11 Buffer


2.2.0 Serializer

2.2.1 Latches

2.2.2 Latches

2.2.3 Multiplexer

2.2.4 Register

2.2.5 Multiplexer

2.2.6 Shift Register

2.3.0 Serialization Clock

2.3.1 Serialization Clock 1

2.3.1.1 Buffer

2.3.2 Pulse Generator



2.3.3 Clock Generator

2.4.0 TX Voltage Generator

2.4.1 Voltage Regulator

2.4.1.1 Amplifier

2.4.2 Programmable Voltage Generator

2.4.3 Counter

2.4.4 Frequency Divider

2.4.5 Control Circuit

2.4.6 Comparator

2.5.0 Reset Control Circuit

2.6.0 TX Voltage Generator 2

2.6.1 Programmable Current Source

2.6.2 NMOS Pull-Down



2.7.0 Voltage Control

2.7.1 Multiplexer




2.9.1 Logic Gate


2.10.1 Logic Gate

2.10.2 Logic Gate

2.11.0 TX Control

2.11.1 Delay

2.11.2 Delay

3.0.0 SATA Receiver 3.1.0 SATA Receiver

3.1.1 RX Signal Input

3.1.1.1 RX Pull-Down Resistance

3.1.1.2 RX Input Resistance

3.1.1.3 RX Common Mode Extractor

3.1.2 RX Equalizer

3.1.2.1 RC Network

3.1.2.2 Logic Gate

3.1.3 RX Data Sampler

3.1.3.1 Comparator

3.1.3.2 Comparator

3.1.3.3 Comparator Reference Switch

3.1.4 RX Data Mux

3.1.5 RX Data Path

3.1.5.1 RX Data Path 1

3.1.5.2 Buffer


3.1.5.4 Buffer

3.1.5.5 Delay

3.1.5.6 Buffer

3.1.5.7 Buffer


3.1.5.8 Buffer

3.1.5.9 Multiplexer


3.1.5.11 Buffer

3.1.6 Deserializer Clocks

3.1.6.1 Buffer

3.1.6.2 Counter

3.1.6.3 Shift Register

3.1.7 Deserializer

3.1.7.1 Deserializer 1

3.1.7.2 Deserializer 2

3.1.7.3 10 Bit Register

3.1.7.4 Multiplexer


3.1.7.6 Multiplexer

3.1.8 RX Sampler Control

3.1.8.1 Register

3.1.8.2 Register

3.1.9 Buffer

3.1.10 Current Bias

3.2.0 RX Signal Detector

3.2.1 Comparator

3.2.2 RX Signal Detector

3.2.3 Current Source

3.3.0 RX Common Mode Supply

3.3.1 Amplifier

3.3.2 VCM Bias

3.3.3 NMOS Current Source

3.3.4 NMOS Current Source

3.4.0 Voltage Detection

3.4.1 Comparator


3.4.1.1 Bias

3.4.2 Voltage Selection

3.4.2.1 Multiplexer


3.4.3.1 NMOS Current Source



3.4.3.4 PMOS Current Source






3.4.3.10 Unused Circuit

3.5.0 RX Signal Input Control

3.5.1 Decoder

3.5.2 Voltage Detection Control Circuit

3.5.3 Current Bias Control Circuit

3.5.4 Unused circuit

4.0.0 Clock Generators 4.1.0 TX Clock

4.1.1 Comparator

4.1.2 Clock Generator

4.1.2.1 Phase Splitter

4.1.3 Waveform Reshaping (TX)

4.1.3.1 Voltage Bias (TX)

4.1.3.2 Bias

4.1.3.3 Amplifier

4.1.4 Delay

4.1.5 Phase Control


4.1.5.1 NMOS Pull-Down

4.1.5.2 Decoder

4.1.5.3 Decoder

4.1.5.4 Delay

4.1.5.5 NMOS Bias




4.1.6 Delay

4.1.6.1 Buffer

4.1.7 Clock Circuit

4.1.7.1 Divider

4.1.7.2 Buffer

4.1.8 Multiplexer

4.1.8.1 Buffer

4.1.8.2 Buffer

4.1.8.3 Multiplexer

4.1.8.4 Multiplexer

4.1.8.5 Multiplexer

4.1.8.6 Register

4.1.8.7 Register

4.1.8.8 Register

4.1.9 Clock Buffer Divider

4.1.9.1 Buffer

4.1.10 TX Digital Processing Circuit

4.1.10.1 Clock Control Circuit

4.1.10.2 Adder

4.1.10.3 Adder Cell

4.1.10.4 Adder

4.1.10.5 Register

4.1.10.6 Inverter


4.1.10.7 Adder

4.1.10.8 Adder Cell

4.1.10.9 Adder

4.1.10.10 Adder

4.1.10.11 Register

4.1.10.12 Accumulator

4.1.10.13 Accumulator Cell


4.1.10.15 Register

4.1.10.16 Adder

4.1.10.17 Register



4.1.10.20 Clock Delay

4.1.10.21 Latch

4.1.10.22 Buffer

4.1.10.23 Register

4.1.10.24 REG10_C1

4.1.10.25 REG10_C2




4.1.10.29 Comparator




4.1.10.33 State Machine

4.1.10.34 Logic

4.1.10.35 Delay

4.1.10.36 Clock Tree

4.1.10.37 Clock Control Circuit


4.2.0 RX Clock Generator

4.2.1 Comparator

4.2.2 RX Clock Multiplexer

4.2.2.1 Bias Generator

4.2.3 RX Clock

4.2.3.1 Differential Latch

4.2.3.2 Differential Latch

4.2.4 Waveform Reshaping

4.2.4.1 Buffer

4.2.5 Voltage Bias

4.2.5.1 Amplifier

4.2.5.2 Level Shifter

4.2.5.3 Bias Generator

4.2.6 Phase Control

4.2.6.1 Decoder

4.3.0 PLL

4.3.1 Oscillator

4.3.1.1 Differential Inverter

4.3.1.2 Programmable Inverter

4.3.1.3 Buffer


4.3.2.1 Amplifier

4.3.3 Amplifier

4.3.4 Amplifier

4.3.4.1 Buffer

4.3.4.2 Voltage Bias

4.3.5 Charge Pump






4.3.5.5 PMOS Current Mirror

4.3.5.6 Buffer

4.3.6 Phase Detector

4.3.7 Buffer

4.3.8 Feedback Counter

4.3.8.1 Buffer

4.3.8.2 Feedback Counter 1




4.3.8.5.1 Buffer


4.3.8.6.1 Buffer



4.3.8.8A Buffer

4.3.9 Clock Edge Detector

4.3.10 Divider

4.3.10.1 Latch

4.3.10.2 Latch

4.3.10.3 Logic Gate

4.3.10.4 Logic Gate

4.3.11 Detector

4.3.11.1 Amplifier

4.3.11.2 RS Register


4.3.12.1 Power Generator

4.3.13 RC Filter

4.3.13.1 Switch

4.3.13.2 VS Generator

4.3.14 Test Control


4.3.15 Test Circuit

4.3.15.1 Comparator

4.4.0 Clock Processing Control

4.4.1 Logic

4.4.1.1 Control Circuit

4.4.1.2 Clocked Circuit

4.4.1.3 Latch

4.4.1.4 Register

4.4.1.5 Register

4.4.1.6 Buffer

4.4.1.7 Adder

4.4.1.8 Adder



4.4.1.11 Latch

4.4.2 Adder

4.4.3 10 Bit Register


4.4.5 Clocked Circuit

4.4.6 Clocked Circuit

4.4.7 Multiplxer

4.4.8 Register


4.4.10 Control Logic

4.4.10.1 Counter


4.4.11 Adder with Selectable Register (7 Bit)

4.4.12 Clock Delay

4.4.12.1 Clock Tree

4.4.13 Decoding Register and Multiplexer

4.4.14 Accumulator


4.4.14.1 Selectable Register (7 Bit)

4.4.14.2 Adder


4.4.14.4 Control Circuit

4.4.15 Control


4.5.1 State Detector

4.5.2 Buffer

5.0.0 Voltage Generators 5.1.0 Power Supply 1

5.2.0 Power Supply

5.2.1 Amplifier


5.3.1 Amplifier

5.3.2 Current Mirror




5.4.1 Amplifier

5.5.0 Voltage Shifter

5.6.0 Regulator Control

5.6.1 Multiplexer

5.6.2 Decoding Register

5.6.3 Counter (COUNT5)

5.6.4 Comparator

5.6.5 Multiplexer

5.6.6 Oscillator

5.6.7 Clock Control Circuit

5.6.7.1 Delay and Pulse Generator

5.6.7.2 Counter


5.6.7.3 Comparator

5.6.7.4 Counter

5.7.0 Power Supply and Filter

5.7.1 VDD1 Generator

5.8.0 Voltage Divider

5.8.1 Switch

5.8.1.1 Switch

5.8.2 Switch

5.8.2.1 Switch

5.9.0 Current Bias Generator

5.9.1 PMOS Current Mirror

5.9.2 PMOS Current Mirror

5.9.3 NMOS Current Mirror



5.11.1 Amplifier


5.13.0 Power Supply

5.13.1 Amplifier

5.14.0 Power Supply

5.14.1 Switch


5.15.1 Amplifier

5.16.0 VPP and VDD5 Generator


5.16.1.1 Amplifier

5.16.2 Oscillator 3


5.17.1 Amplifier


5.18.1 Amplifier


5.19.0 Pulse Generator

5.19.1 Buffer

5.19.2 Logic Gate

5.19.3 Logic Gate

5.20.0 Bandgap Generator

5.20.1 Amplifier

5.21.0 Control

5.22.0 DISABLE 3

6.0.0 Test Circuit 6.1.0 Buffer

6.2.0 Test Decoder


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