PMC-Sierra PM8020B-F3GI (PM8020 SRCv 8x6G)
dateType
SAS ctrl.
datePCI Vendor ID
103C A259 A25B
datePCI Device ID
323B
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Product Highlights
PCIe PHYs Eight PHYs compliant with base specification 3.0
Ball Pitch 0.8 mm
GPIO Ports Up to 24 GPIO ports
PCIe Speed 8 Gb/s (Gen 3), 5 Gb/s (Gen 2), or 2.5 Gb/s (Gen 1) per link
RAID Levels Supports RAID 0/1/10/5/50/6 and 60
DRAM Support Up to 4 Gbytes of DDR3 DRAM, from DDR3-800 to DDR3-1600
Shared Memory Large ECC-protected global shared memory with hardware FIFO and semaphores
Physical Package 773-pin 23 x 23 mm FCBGA package
Simultaneous IOs Supports 4096 simultaneous I/Os
Architecture Type Ultra-High Performance RoCstar Architecture
Memory Throughput 38.4 Gbyte/s
Per PHY Bandwidth Up to 600 Mbyte/s per direction or 1200 Mbyte/s bi-directional
RAID Acceleration Computes RAID 6 via bit-wise XOR and Reed Solomon (RS) on two simultaneous data streams
SAS Device Support Addressing to support 1024 SAS devices
Embedded Processors High performance MIPS-basedâ„¢ multi-processor subsystem
PCIe Virtualization Single-root I/O virtualization (SR-IOV) with up to 16 virtual functions (VFs)
Peripheral Interfaces NAND/NOR flash memory, SRAM, EEPROM, TWI, UART, SPI, SGPIO
Memory Controller Type 32/64-bit DDR3 with optional ECC support
PCIe Lane Configurations Supports x1, x2, x4 and x8
SAS SATA Protocol Controller Integrated high-performance, 24-port SAS/SATA (1.5/3/6 Gb/s) fully offloaded
Benefits
SAS Ports 8 x 6 Gb/s SAS ports
Throughput Highest possible throughput enabled by 8 Gbyte/s PCIe Gen 3 interface
Architecture Ultra-high performance RoCstar contention-free architecture
Data Protection Increase reliability and performance with standalone or inline hardware XOR and RAID 5/6 support
Export Compliance Encryption-free device to comply with export restrictions
Processing Capability MIPS processing cluster with multi-threading
Backward Compatibility Preserves legacy system support through backward compatibility with SAS 1.0, PCIe 1.1 and 2.0
Virtualization Performance Improved VM performance with PCIe I/O virtualization (IOV) support
Product Overview
Type PCIe Gen 3 to 8-port, 6 Gb/s SAS RAID-on-Chip (RoC) controller
Product PM8020 SRCv 8x6G
Application Volume servers and blade applications
SAS Specification SAS 2.1
Embedded Processor
Cores 2
Core Clock 1 GHz
Core Architecture MIPS 1004K
doc No chip documents available
drv No drivers available
Last updated 2025-06-11T20:08:20Z

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