Meet the AMI MG Series of Backplane Controllers
Support up to 32 drives on just four controllers.
Need a Backplane Design?
A backplane (BP) is a compute/storage server subsystem with a series of hot-pluggable connectors ( or slots) that allows a server to access multiple drives with various industry-standard control interfaces like SGPIO for SAS/SATA, VPP/SHP/NPEM/UBM for NVMe Drives.
AMI MG series of controllers allows customers to design a backplane to support all existing standard interfaces/protocols and SAS/SATA, NVMe U.2/U.3, and EDSFF drives. Multiple BP Controllers can be cascaded to support up to 32 Drives.
MG Series Features
- Low-cost single-chip solution
- Ready to use, no firmware programming required
- Supports LED/drive management through UBM/VPP/SHP/NPEM/SGPIO
- Supports IBPI specifications (SFF8489)
- Supports up to 3-LED per drive slot
- Provides LED notifications for activity, fail/rebuild, and locate for each drive
- Cascade as many as 4 controllers to support up to 32 drives
- Firmware upgradable through SMBUS from host BMC
- Diagnostics and FW update tools available for Windows and Linux
- Available in QFN-64, TQFP-48, and VBGA 144-pin packages
Which Backplane Controller is right for you?
AMI provides several unique backplane controllers in the MG9XX series:
AMI MG Series Backplane Controller Product Matrix Data Sheet
The MGxxx Backplane Controller series from AMI provide LED and drive management for SAS/SATA/NVMe drives.