The Microchip SmartROC 3200 8x8 RAID-on-Chip controller is the industry's most versatile, fully-featured, and secure RAID-enabled NVMe/SAS/SATA server storage performance solution.  This controller offers up to x8 PCIe Gen 4 connectivity to the host CPU, 8 storage lanes, 72-bit DDR4 of memory, new security features, and advanced manageability through industry-standard interfaces.  

• Tri-Mode Support
• Automatic PCIe Gen 4, SAS-4, and SATA detection and link speed negotiation to enable universal bay architectures
• Various RAID, HBA, or transparent modes selectable per drive
• NVMe Storage Management
• Integrated Switchtec PCIe Gen 2 (5 GT/s), Gen 3 (8 GT/s) and Gen 4 (16 GT/s) Switch
• Low latency to NVMe targets in native or RAID modes
• PCIe error containment (including downstream port containment, upstream error containment, completion timeout synthesis and poisoned TLP blocking)
• 8 lanes of NVMe media support, down to ×1 bifurcation
• 8-lane host support
• SAS Storage Management
• Each PHY supports 24G SAS-4 with up to 2.4 Gbps bandwidth
• DCM for near 100% efficient bandwidth aggregation for all SAS/SATA drive rates over SAS-4 links
• Performance
• >3.3M 4K RR IOPs and up to 26 GBps bandwidth Secure
• Smart Storage Solutions Software
• Driver and unified management utilities for all major operating systems
• maxView GUI and ARCCONF CLI for management
• UEFI pre-boot with GUI and CLI support
• Autonomous event monitor
• Third-party plugins, including vSphere and OpenStack
• Security and Data Protection
• Supports all RAID levels (0, 1, 10, 5, 50, 6, 60)
• Hardware root-of-trust Secure Boot and Secure Update
• Hardware assist for error recovery