11.5.2 Differential Signals; Sas-3 Specification Compliance; Additional Information - Seagate ST400FM0323 Product Manual

The Ready LED Out signal is designed to pull down the cathode of an LED. The anode is attached to the proper +3.3 volt supply
through an appropriate current limiting resistor. The LED and the current limiting resistor are external to the drive. See Table 21 for
the output characteristics of the LED drive signals.
Table 21 LED drive signal
State
LED off, high
LED on, low

11.5.2 Differential signals

The drive SAS differential signals comply with the intra-enclosure (internal connector) requirements of the SAS standard.
Table 22 defines the general interface characteristics
Table 22 General interface characteristics
Characteristic
Bit rate (nominal)
Unit interval (UI)(nominal)
Impedance (nominal, differential )
Transmitter transients, maximum
Receiver transients, maximum
11.6

SAS-3 Specification compliance

Seagate SAS-3 drives are entirely compatible with the SAS-3 Specification (T10/2212-D).
The most important characteristic of the SAS-3 drive at 6Gb/s is that the receiver is capable of adapting the equalizer to optimize the
receive margins. The SAS-3 drive has two types of equalizers:
1. A Decision Feedback Equalizer (DFE) which utilizes the standard SAS-3 training pattern transmitted during the SNW-3 training
gap. The DFE circuit can derive an optimal equalization characteristic to compensate for many of the receive losses in the system.
2. A Feed Forward Equalizer (FFE) optimized to provide balanced receive margins over a range of channels bounded by the best
and worst case channels as defined by the relevant ANSI standard.
11.7

Additional information

Please contact the Seagate representative for SAS electrical details, if required.
For more information about the Phy, Link, Transport, and Applications layers of the SAS interface, refer to the Seagate SAS Interface
Manual, part number 100293071.
For more information about the SCSI commands used by Seagate SAS drives, refer to the Seagate SCSI Commands Reference Manual,
part number 100293068.
Seagate 1200.2 SAS SSD Product Manual, Rev. A
Test condition
≤ ≤
0 V VOH 3.6 V
I = 15 mA
OL
Units
Mbaud
ps
ohm
V
V
Output voltage
-100 μA < I < 100 μA
OH
≤ ≤
0 V 0.225 V
OL
1.5Gb/s 3.0Gb/s 6.0Gb/s
1,500 3,000 6,000
666.6 333.3 166.6
100 100 100
± 1.2 ± 1.2 ± 1.2
± 1.2 ± 1.2 ± 1.2
12.0Gb/s
12,000
83.3
100
± 1.2
± 1.2
70