Product category: Communications ICs (Wired)
News Release from: Avago Technologies | Subject: HPFC-5400D
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 15 August 2003
Fibre Channel controller
takes serdes onboard
The fourth-generation HPFC-5400D Tachyon controller IC offers industry-leading performance for mid- to high-end storage applications
One Tachyon DX2 chip supports dual-channel, full-duplex Fibre Channel port operation, which saves valuable board space for system manufacturers, while providing backward compatibility with previous generation Tachyon controllers. Storage area network (SAN) solution providers are seeking higher bandwidth, greater connectivity, lower cost per port, higher integration and lower manufacturing costs, while conserving PCI slots within their servers.
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 15 August 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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The Agilent 2Gbit/s Tachyon DX2 Fibre Channel controller satisfies these requirements, making it an excellent solution for embedded subsystems, disk arrays, SCSI to Fibre Channel bridges and host adapters.
The Agilent HPFC-5400D is a single-chip, dual-channel Fibre Channel controller solution that offers full duplex capability within each channel and provides both 2 and 1Gbit/s operation.
It interfaces to the industry standard 33 and 66MHz PCI and 66/100/133 MHz PCI-X bus architecture with 32 and 64bit support.
The Agilent Tachyon DX2 chip also includes integrated serdes, which in other solutions must be implemented with a separate device.
It also allows for an external HSPI-compatible 10bit serdes.
Agilent's proven state machine architecture scales proportionately with system CPU resources to avoid performance bottlenecks associated with on-chip processors.
The Tachyon architecture allows for simultaneous, parallel processing of inbound data, outbound data, and hardware control and commands to maximise bandwidth and minimise latency and I/O overhead.
The HPFC-5400D Tachyon DX2 Fibre Channel controller IC is immediately available through Agilent's direct sales channel.
Agilent also offers Fibre Channel adapter boards based on the dual-channel Tachyon DX2 architecture.
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