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Product Brief

Locked Document, Log In RequiredPDFSMC Storage Management Controller Short Form Data Sheet [72 KB] PMC-2040066 2004-11-15 

Symbols/Footprints

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Locked Document, Log In RequiredZipped FilePMC-2052559 PM8393 SMC 324 PBGA CAD Symbols and Footprints [217 KB]12007-07-26

Features

GENERAL

The PM8393 SMC is a highly integrated MIPS-based processor with a set of built-in peripherals: internal memory, 4 Two-wire Interfaces (TWI), 4 Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitters (UART), General Purpose I/O (GPIO), Fibre Channel Port, 8 Fan Control Ports, and expansion ports for additional memory and I/O expansion.

The device is optimized for storage system applications. A complete suite of firmware development tools and application programming interfaces are available to enable quick development of SCSI Enclosure Services (SES) or custom enclosure management applications.

INTEGRATED PROCESSOR

  • MIPS32™ instruction set including 16e compressed instruction set for minimizing code space size.
  • 106.25 MHz.
  • 32-bit architecture with 5 Stage pipeline.
  • Thirty-two 32-bit General Purpose Registers (GPR).
  • Fixed mapping translation table.
  • Extra set of shadow GPRs for improved interrupt processing latency.
  • Separate 16 KB 4-way set associative instruction and data caches to support execution out of external slow memory.
  • EJTAG debug interface supports single stepping, on-chip memory access, instruction and data breakpoints.
  • 128 KB on-chip scratch RAM for local code and data storage.

FIBRE CHANNEL PORT INTERFACE

  • Directly interfaces to CTS 20x4G parallel FC port.
  • Provides termination of FC Arbitrated Loop (FC2) into on chip Tx and Rx FIFO.
  • Supports inband code download via FC link and SES protocol.

LOCAL BUS INTERFACE

  • Supports external I/O devices, RAM and Flash Memory.
  • 4 programmable chip selects.
  • 8/16-bit data bus with 21 bit address space for a total of 2 MB per chip select.

SERIAL INTERFACE

  • 4 multi-master two wire interfaces.
  • 4 Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter (UART) interfaces.
  • 8 Fan PWM/Tachometer interfaces.

GENERAL PURPOSE INPUT/OUTPUT (GPIO)

  • Total of 128 individually programmable I/O pins.
  • Each I/O may operate as an input,push/pull output or open-drain output configuration.
  • Programmable LED flash patterns.
  • Configurable LED activity pattern based on external activity trigger.

TIMER AND INTERRUPT

  • Watchdog timer which resets processor upon timeout.
  • 4 general purpose 32-bit timers for generating hardware timed events and interrupts.
  • 4 external maskable, edge or level sensitive interrupt pins.
  • Four 32-bit counters for generating patterns on select GPIOs.
  • 25 internal maskable interrupt signals for UART, TWI, FC PORT, GPIO, and Timer generated interrupts.

FIRMWARE DEVELOPMENT KIT

  • SES API for utilizing SES pages and commands over the FC link.
  • SCSI-3 API for underlying access to the FC Port.
  • API for downloading firmware over the FC link.
  • CTS Diagnostic API for FC link access to CTS registers and diagnostic capability.
  • Peripheral Drivers: TWI, UART, GPIO, LED.

Physical

  • Built in 0.18 µm (1.8 V Core and 3.3 V I/O supply) CMOS technology .
  • GPIOs are 5 V tolerant.
  • 23 mm x 23 mm 324-pin PBGA.
  • 800 mW typical operating power.

Applications

  • Fibre Channel Storage Systems (RAID, SBOD, MBOD, JBOD).
  • SAS Storage Systems (RAID, SBOD,MBOD, JBOD).
  • SATA Storage Systems (RAID, SBOD,MBOD, JBOD).
  • Server Storage.
  • SAN Switches.
  • Tape Storage.
 
 
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