Agilent Technologies Introduces Industry's First Fibre Channel Controller IC with Error Detection for Storage Networking Applications.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 23, 2003 Code Safeguards Corporate Data by Ensuring Early Detection of Data Corruption in Storage Subsystems Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :A) today introduced the industry's first 2 Gb/s dual-channel Fibre Channel controller to include error detection code (EDC EDC See: Export Development Corp. ) for early detection of data corruption in storage subsystems. EDC ensures end-to-end data integrity from the host server to the target storage devices, providing companies with increased reliability and safeguarding of valuable corporate data. "The ever-increasing speeds in storage require more rigorous measures to preserve data integrity," said Erik Ottem, marketing director of Agilent's Storage Networking Division. "Being first to market with EDC in silicon is another significant milestone for Agilent, and well positions the new Agilent Tachyon tachyon (tăk`ēŏn'), hypothetical elementary particle that travels only at speeds exceeding that of light. According to the theory of relativity, the speed of light is the limiting velocity for all ordinary material particles. DX2+ chip with storage OEMs." As data rates continue to evolve from 2 Gb/s to 4 Gb/s and 10 Gb/s, the need to detect and correct corrupted data becomes increasingly vital. Current techniques are based on proprietary schemes and lack the system-level interoperability necessary to provide universal SCSI SCSI in full Small Computer System Interface Once common standard for connecting peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, etc.) to small and medium-sized computers. SCSI has given way to faster standards, such as Firewire and USB. error detection and correction (algorithm, storage) error detection and correction - (EDAC, or "error checking and correction", ECC) A collection of methods to detect errors in transmitted or stored data and to correct them. This is done in many ways, all of them involving some form of coding. . The Agilent HPFC-5600 Tachyon DX2+ Fibre Channel controller IC uses EDC to flag the data error and inform the memory subsystem's software driver. The driver can then take corrective measures to recover the I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output . This fifth-generation Agilent Tachyon controller offers industry-leading performance for storage subsystems, SCSI to Fibre Channel bridges, host bus adapters, and mid-to-high-end storage applications that use multi-processor systems. The dual-channel 2 Gb/s single-chip HPFC-5600 advances the existing Tachyon DX2 dual-channel architecture by combining a complete hardware-based solution that uses an EDC protection algorithm for interfacing between Fibre Channel mass storage devices and the main memory of the subsystem. The Agilent HPFC-5600's EDC algorithm maintains the SCSI command structure and architecture model, and enables EDC to stay with the data for its entire life within the storage array. It allows a protection domain to be initiated, propagated and terminated by using a standard mechanism to guard the data, enhancing end-to-end data integrity. The Agilent HPFC-5600 supports dual-channel, full duplex Fibre Channel port operation, which saves valuable board space for system manufacturers. It features 1 Gb/s and 2 Gb/s operation, and provides backward compatibility to previous-generation Tachyon controllers. The HPFC-5600 interfaces to the industry-standard 33 and 66 MHz (MegaHertZ) One million cycles per second. It is used to measure the transmission speed of electronic devices, including channels, buses and the computer's internal clock. A one-megahertz clock (1 MHz) means some number of bits (16, 32, 64, etc. PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). and 66/100/133 MHz PCI-X (PCI eXtended) An enhanced PCI bus technology originally developed by IBM, HP and Compaq that is backward compatible with existing PCI cards. PCI and 32-bit PCI-X slots are physically the same, and PCI cards can plug into PCI-X slots. (enhanced PCI) bus architecture with 32 and 64-bit support. Agilent's proven state machine architecture scales proportionately with system CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. resources to avoid performance bottlenecks associated with on-chip processors. This architecture allows simultaneous, parallel processing of inbound data, outbound data, and hardware control and commands to maximize bandwidth and minimize latency and I/O overhead. U.S. Pricing and Availability The Agilent HPFC-5600 Tachyon DX2+ Fibre Channel controller IC is available in samples to select customers through Agilent's direct sales channel. Volume production is expected in the first quarter of 2004; pricing will be set at that time. Also available are the complementary Tachyon software development kit version 3.3 and Fibre Channel adapter boards based on the dual-channel Tachyon DX2+ architecture. Agilent Storage Networking Solutions Agilent is a leading supplier of 1 and 2 Gb/s Fibre Channel solutions for the high-performance, enterprise-class SAN market, and is a world leader in fiber optics fiber optics, transmission of digitized messages or information by light pulses along hair-thin glass fibers. Each fiber is surrounded by a cladding having a high index of refractance so that the light is internally reflected and travels the length of the fiber and ICs for the Ethernet market. Agilent provides industry-leading Tachyon Fibre Channel controllers, InfiniBand switch ICs, fiber optics, physical layer ICs, and integrated Fibre Channel and iSCSI adapter boards. Agilent also offers test and measurement solutions for the storage networking market. More information is available at www.agilent.com/view/storage. About Agilent Technologies Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A) is a global technology leader in communications, electronics, life sciences and chemical analysis. The company's 30,000 employees serve customers in more than 110 countries. Agilent had net revenue of $6 billion in fiscal year 2002. Information about Agilent is available on the Web at www.agilent.com. NOTE TO EDITORS: Please direct reader inquiries to Agilent Semiconductor Products Group at 800-235-0312, or e-mail us at semiconductorsupport@agilent.com. Further technology, corporate citizenship Corporate Citizenship The extent to which businesses are socially responsible in meeting legal, ethical and economic responsibilities placed on them by shareholders. The aim it to create higher standards of living and quality of life in the community in which it operates, while and executive news is available on the Agilent news site at www.agilent.com/go/news. |
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