1.1 Overview
1.1.1 Hardware Features
Chapter 1
Introduction
This chapter provides general overview information on the LSIFC929
Dual Channel Fibre Channel I/O Processor chip. The chapter contains
the following sections:
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Section 1.1, "Overview"
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Section 1.2, "General Description"
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Section 1.3, "Hardware Overview"
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Section 1.4, "Initiator Operations"
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Section 1.5, "Target Operations"
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Section 1.6, "Diagnostics"
The LSIFC929 is a high-performance, cost effective Dual Channel Fibre
Channel (FC) I/O Processor. It represents the very latest system level
integration technology in intelligent I/O processors from LSI Logic. The
Storage Area Network (SAN) environment is fully supported with both
Fibre Channel Protocol for SCSI (FCP) and LAN/IP.
Following is a list of hardware features supported by the LSIFC929.
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Highly integrated full duplex Dual Channel Fibre Channel I/O
Processor
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Integrated 2 Gbaud Dual Channel FC serial link
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64-bit/66 MHz host PCI bus (backward compatible with
32-bit/33 MHz)
LSIFC929 Dual Channel Fibre Channel I/O Processor
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