See serial interface. Earlier printers used a Centronics parallel cable to attach to the computer, and disk drives used a parallel ATA (PATA) cable to connect to the motherboard. See Centronics ...

The LDS SATA HOST DUAL XV5 IP is compliant with Serial ATA II specification ... The LDS SATA HOST XV5 IP incorporates the Transport layer, the Link layer and the PHY layer on a Xilinx Virtex 5 FPGA.