HPFC-5000 - Agilent Technologies

HPFC-5000 Fibre Channel Interface Controller

Tachyon is a fundamental building block compatible with Agilent Technologies’ Fibre Channel solution which includes interface controllers, physical link modules, adapters, switches and disk drives. .c m o The Tachyon architecture supports both networking and mass storage connections to provide a low cost, high performance solution with low host overhead. .

Features

• Single chip Fibre Channel interface (no I/O processor required)
• Supports 1062, 531 and 266 Mbaud links
• Supports 3 topologies
  – direct connect, fabric and Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL)
• Supports Fibre Channel Class 1, 2 and 3 services
• Supports up to 2 Kbyte frame payload for all classes of service
• Sequence segmentation/reassembly in hardware
• Automatic ACK frame generation and processing
• On-chip support of FCP for SCSI initiators and targets
• Supports up to 16384 concurrent SCSI I/O transactions
• Compliant with Internet MIB-II network management
• Direct interface to ind.