| Type | Public (NASDAQ: SIMG) |
|---|---|
| Industry | Semiconductors |
| Founded | 1995 |
| Headquarters | Sunnyvale, California, USA |
| Products | Consumer electronics, Mobile, Wireless, PC, Storage and IP |
| Subsidiaries | HDMI, LLC; MHL, LLC; SPMT, LLC; SiBEAM, Inc.; Simplay Labs, LLC |
| Website | www.siliconimage.com |
Silicon Image is a provider of wireless and wired connectivity solutions that enable the reliable distribution and presentation of high-definition content for consumer electronics, mobile, and PC markets. The company has driven the creation of HDMI® and DVI™ industry standards, the latest standards for mobile devices - SPMT™ (Serial Port Memory Technology) and MHL™ (Mobile High-definition Link), and the standard for 60 GHz wireless HD video - WirelessHD™ (WiHD).
Silicon Image delivers its technology via semiconductor and intellectual property (IP) products that are compliant with global industry standards and also feature Silicon Image innovations. Silicon Image's products are deployed by electronics manufacturers in devices such as desktop and notebook PCs, DTVs, Blu-ray Disc™ players, audio-video receivers, as well as mobile phones, tablets and digital cameras.
The company was founded in 1995, and is traded on the NASDAQ market under the symbol SIMG. Silicon Image is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, employs around 500 people worldwide, and has regional engineering and sales offices in China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan.
Contents |
Silicon Image SiI3112 Serial ATA controller chips have a quirk which can cause problems with certain hard drives. When writes of larger than 8 kByte in size are sent to the drive, the controller may send Serial ATA Data FISes which are not split on a 512-byte boundary. This behavior is allowed by the Serial ATA specification, however some older Seagate drives cannot deal with this and lock up when receiving such frames. The workaround when using the affected drives with these controllers requires limiting writes to the disk to 15 sectors at a time, which has a performance impact.
Silicon Image SiI3114 and SiI3512 have another issue that shows up when writing blocks of more than 8 kByte to the drive. Under some timing conditions, the controller may incorrectly send an R_ERR response to the drive in response to a DMA Activate FIS. This can be prevented by a controller configuration change made by the driver.[1]