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PMC-Sierra

PM8010 maxSAS SRC 8x6G

PCI Express 2.0 8-Port SAS-2 RAID Controller

Key Features

  • Eight-port SAS/SATA 1.5G/3G/6G fully offloaded protocol controller
  • Multiplexes two 3 Gbit/s SAS PHYs into a 6 Gbit/s SAS PHY
  • Flexible wide-port capability supports any combination of widths up to eight serial interfaces per wide port
  • Eight PCI Express PHYs compliant with base specification 2.0, operating at 5 Gbit/s and 2.5 Gbit/s per link
  • Ultra-high performance RoCstar Architecture with Global Shared Memory
  • 32/64-bit DDR2 with optional ECC support
  • Computes RAID 6 via bit-wise XOR and Reed Solomon (P+Q) on two simultaneous data streams
  • Checking, insertion and replacement of T10 DIF as defined by SBC-2

Benefits

  • Supports all RAID levels: 0/1/10/5/50/6 and 60
  • Higher system performance with hardware accelerated RAID 5 and 6
  • Tunable performance with multiple programmable integrated processors
  • Greater reliability of critical data with end-to-end data path error protection
  • Preserves legacy system support through backward compatibility with SAS 1.0a and PCIe 1.0

PM8010 maxSAS SRC 8x6G detailed product information

PM8010 maxSAS SRC 8x6G news release



PMC-Sierra

PM8000 Tachyon SPC 8x6G – 8-port SAS/SATA Protocol Controller

Industry’s First 6Gbit/s SAS/SATA Architecture for Enterprise-Class Storage Systems

Key Features

SAS/SATA Interface

  • 8 channel 1.5G/3G/6G SAS/SATA protocol controller
  • HW SAS core for maximum performance
  • High Density HDD support
  • SAS 2.0 compliant Multiplexing
  • Supports SSP, SMP, STP and direct-attached SATA protocols
  • Full bi-directional bandwidth up to 1.2Gbit/s bidirectional per PHY simultaneously
  • Flexible wide port capability.

PCI-Express Interface

  • Compliant to PCIe 2.0 and backward compliant to PCIe
  • 8 PHYs operating at 5Gbit/s and 2.5Gbit/s

PM8000 Tachyon SPC 8x6G detailed product information

PM8000 Tachyon SPC 8x6G news release






Catalyst STX-460

Catalyst STX-460 - 6G analyzer


Benefits

  • 1.5G, 3.0G, or 6.0G recording
  • Host and device emulator options
  • 4 wide miniSAS initiator and target ports
  • Up to 32 ports with cascading
  • Advanced state triggering GUI
  • Protocol error detection
  • Pre- and post-recording filtering
  • Spread spectrum clocking support
  • Performance analysis
  • Simulated waveform display of OOB sequence

Catalyst Introduces STX-460 for 6 Gb/s SAS and SATA Protocol Analysis news release



Finisar

Finisar XGIG® 6 Gb/s SAS/SATA ANALYZER


Features

  • 1.5, 3, and 6 Gb/s SAS, 1.5 and 3Gb/s SATA
  • DWORD search to quickly find information within frames
  • SAS-2 Multiplexing capable
  • Choice between passive passthrough or active signal retiming
  • Graphical display to show OOB Sequences

Benefits

  • Implementation of SAS-2 at all speeds supports testing SAS-2 features at lower clock rates
  • Native Mini-SAS 4x Connector Interfaces simplify cabling
  • Passive “Analog Passthrough” minimizes analyzer’s effect on network traffic

XGIG 6 Gb/s SAS/SATA Analyzer detailed product information

XGIG 6 Gb/s SAS/SATA Analyzer news release



Lecroy

Lecroy Avalanche™ SAS Protocol Analyzer


Features

  • Four SAS analysis ports (6 or 3 Gbps) - Monitor, trigger and record up to 4 Serial Attached SCSI links simultaneously
  • Complete Serial ATA Recording and Analysis (6, 3 or 1.5 Gbps) - The Avalanche system is designed to be plug-and-play compatible with Serial ATA
  • State Machine Triggering - Isolate areas of interest with real-time hardware triggering
  • Hardware Filtering - Extend capture window by removing non-essential primitives from the recording
  • Raw Bit Recording - Analyzes traffic at the lowest possible level
  • SAS Zoning and Multiplexing Capable - Capture, record and analyze traffic in complex storage network environments
  • Cascade Multiple Analyzers - By cascading up to 8 analyzers, time correlated traces for up to 32 channels can be recorded
  • Traffic Summaries - Statistical reports provide high-level abstraction of events, operations, errors and OOB transactions
  • Automatic Decoding at OOB View, Frame and Transport Layers; SCSI STP, and SMP Transactions - View high-level Serial Attached SCSI protocol events

Avalanche SAS Protocol Analyzer detailed product information

Avalanche SAS Protocol Analyzer news release