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Table 1. Fibre Channel Expansion Card specifications (continued)
Type
BIOS ROM
NVRAM
Onboard DMA
Frame buffer FIFO
Dimensions
Operating power
Inventory checklist
The Expansion Card option package includes the following items:
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Intel
Blade Server Fibre Channel Expansion Card SBEFCM4, 4 Gbps
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Intel
Blade Server Fibre Channel Expansion Card SBEFCM4, 4 Gbps Resource CD
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Major components of the Fibre Channel Expansion Card
The ISP2422 chip provides a PCI-X local bus interface and two completely independent 4 Gb serial
Fibre Channel ports. Each port has a RISC processor, an integrated serializer / deserializer
(SERDES), a receive DMA sequencer, frame buffer, five-channel DMA controller, and an external
memory interface in a single-chip solution.
Specification
BIOS ROM 1 MB of flash memory (the flash is field programmable)
NVRAM 512 bytes, field programmable
Five-channel DMA controller for each port: transmit, receive,
command, auto-request, and auto-response
Integrated 4 KB transmit and 6 KB receive frame buffer FIFO for
each data channel
Approximately 9.35 cm x 13.14 cm (3.683 in. x 5.275 in.)
Approximately 10 watts
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