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Specifications

Fibre Channel Operation

Fibre Channel Data Rate

2 Gbit/sec: 200 MBytes/sec (half duplex), 400 MBytes/sec (full duplex)

Auto-Speed Negotiation

1 or 2 Gb/s

BIOS Support

INT13, Legacy BIOS for IA-64, Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI)

Topology

Arbitrated Loop – Public and Private, Fabric support (F- and FL-login)

FC Service Class

Class 2 (ACK_0, ACK_1) and Class 3

Upper Layer Protocol

SCSI FCP – On-chip automation of complete SCSI I/O

Loop Initialization

Completely hardware-based for high availability

Link Diagnostics

Link Status indicators, internal/external loopback

Link Speed

2 Gb status indicator

Compliance

FC-PH, FC-AL, FC-PLDA, FCP-SCSI

PCI

Compliance

PCI Local Bus Specifications Rev. 2.2

Rate & Width

66/33 MHz, 64/32-bit PCI

Burst Transfer Rate

528 Mbytes/sec, guaranteed for length of frame, inbound & outbound at 64-bit, 66 MHz

Dual Address Cycle Support

Yes (64-bit PCI addressing)

Hot Plug Support

Yes

Additional PCI Features

Zero wait state multiple cache line bursting capable up to full frame size, 32-byte cache line

Tachyon XL2 Architectural Features

Complete Hardware-based Design

Less than one interrupt per I/O

Numerous independent functional blocks concurrently processing inbound data, outbound data,

control and commands in hardware

Automation of complete I/O on-chip in hardware results in lowest latency & I/O overhead and highest

levels of parallelism

Physical and Environmental

PCB Size

Low Profile PCI Card, MD2 form factor (length 6.6" x height 2.536")

PCB Power

7W max at 5V

± 5%

Supply Voltage

3.3V

± 5%, 5V ± 5%

Operating Temperature Range

0

° to 55° Centigrade (no airflow)

Storage Temperature Range

-40

° to 70° Centigrade

Relative Humidity

up to 90% (non-condensing)

Softwrae Support

Tachyon Software Developer’s Kit

Windows NT 4.0

(TSDK)

Linux Environments

VXWorks

Certifications

FCC Class B

US/FDA/CDRH Laser AEL Class 1 (2 CFR)

CE

TÚV Rheinland Laser AEL Class 1 (EN60825-1+A11)

VCC ITE Class

Yes

C-TICK (AZ/NZS 3548)

Yes