Product category: Communications ICs (Wired)
News Release from: LSI Europe
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 12 November 2001
Design in for
LSI Fibre Channel controller
The LSI Logic LSIFC929 dual-channel PCI to Fibre Channel controller has been selected to power VMIC's first 2Gbit/s host bus adapters, the VMIPCI-5720 and VMIPMC-5720
"VMIC needed an advanced dual channel Fibre Channel controller with proven reliability", said George Meares, vice president of research and development at VMIC. "The LSIFC929 demonstrated the performance features and price-efficiency necessary for the VMIPCI-5720 and VMIPMC-5720 designs". Typical host bus adapter applications include storage area networks (SANs), clustering, video editing, data warehousing, JBOD, RAID and point-to-point communications.
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 12 November 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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The LSIFC929 controller supports Fibre Channel protocol and Internet protocol on both channels allowing IP traffic to be intermixed simultaneously with SCSI traffic.
The controllers, with integrated serdes (serialiser/deserialiser, save on real estate, cost and component count.
The LSIFC929 is built using Fusion-MPT (message passing technology) architecture and has demonstrated I/O performance of 75,000 I/Os per second while greatly enhancing host utilisation and connectivity.
"The VMIC host adapters are crafted for applications with high network bandwidth needs.
Their critical design criteria demanded exceptional component performance", said David Allen, manager of Fibre Channel product planning for LSI Logic's Storage Standard Products division.
"VMIC took the LSIFC929 and brought to market a no-nonsense 2Gbit/s Fibre Channel board that's getting serious attention".
LSI Logic introduced Fusion-MPT architecture in June 2000 to deliver the highest levels of I/O performance while providing a versatile message-passing interface that allows for flexible value-added applications.
The architecture, based on industry standard ARM processor technology, has the same device driver that supports both Ultra320 SCSI and Fibre Channel, eliminating the need to develop, install and qualify separate device drivers for each physical interface.
LSI Logic considers its Fusion-MPT architecture to be the fastest, most efficient and versatile architecture implemented in high performance I/O controllers today.
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