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Introduction
MA6116A General Description
MOAI MA6116A is a bridge chip for USB to SATA interface, translating the host SCSI command to ATA/ATAPI command of SATA device, targeting the external HDD application. MA6116A complies with the USB Storage Class specifications ver.1.0 Bulk mode protocol and compatible with Windows 98/2000/XP/Vista/Win7, Mac OS 9, Linux Redhat. With the in-house DMA and Transceiver capability, MA6116A provides the market most outstanding read/write performance and BOM cost.
FEATURE
USB Specification Reversion 2.0
■ Mass storage
■ USB Bus-powered
■ Support Suspend
■ Integrated USB 2.0 UTMI transceiver and Serial Interface Engine (SIE)
■ Endpoint:
► Endpoint 0: 64 bytes control transfer.
► Endpoint 1/2: 512 bytes x 2 bulk transfer for IN /OUT transaction.
● Integrated MCU compatible 8-bit micro-controller
● Support IIC Bus EEPROM
● SATA PM-Aware Function
● SATA PHY LINK IDLE MODE
● Support Pass through S.M.A.R.T Command
● Support HDD power saving (Stand-by) mode, setting by MP Tool
● Support over 2TB HDD
● Support Watch Dog Function
● SATA Specification
■ Compliance with Gen1i of Serial ATA II Electronic Specification 1.0
● Embedded 5V to 3.3V/1.8V Voltage Regulator
● High System ESD performance
● Proprietary OTB (One Button Backup) and EZ-Secure (Pass word Partition) AP support.
● Extra “Read Only Disk” support for data Pre-load , and enabled by MP Tool.
● Neutral “Mass Storage Class Device” string support. (MA6116A2)