ConnectCom Solutions Inc. Announces Ultra160/m Controller and Host Adapter.Business Editors SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 17, 2000 Single-Chip Solution for Combined 320MB/Second Data Transfer Rate Plus Patented Architecture for Highest System Performance SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 17, 2000 ConnectCom Solutions Inc., (ConnectCom) today announced its AdvanSys ASC ASC Ambulatory surgery center, see there 38C1600 Dual Channel Ultra160/m 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. chip and the AdvanSys ASB ASB Asbestos ASB Arbeiter Samariter Bund (German medical help organisation) ASB Anti-Social Behaviour ASB Accounting Standards Board (UK FRC) ASB Aarhus School of Business 3950U160MW Ultra160/m SCSI/PCI host adapter designed around the device. Designed to provide end users working on high performance desktop computers and servers with a fast and robust storage interface, the ASC38C1600 combines two independent channels on one chip to give system designers a combined data transfer rate of up to 320 megabytes (MB) per second. It employs a patented software architecture and provides bus interface flexibility for migration, technology upgrades and expansion needs. The ASC38C1600 is sampling today to Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) customers. Production availability of the chip and board products will be in April 2000. In 1000-piece quantities, the ASC38C1600 will be priced at $63.35, and the ASB3950U160MW is priced at $299 (MSRP MSRP Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price MSRP Message Session Relay Protocol MSRP Multi-Species Recovery Plan (US Fish & Wildlife Service) MSRP Member of the Society for Radiological Protection (UK) ). "ConnectCom is proud to offer an industry-leading dual channel SCSI chip based on its patented software architecture," said Bob Pleva, director of product marketing at ConnectCom. "With the AdvanSys ASC38C1600, our customers have high performance Ultra160/m technology with designed-in flexibility for future needs." The ASC38C1600 also allows for any combination of 32-bit or 64-bit and 33MHz or 66MHz PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). . Its two 40-MIPS (million instructions per second Noun 1. million instructions per second - (computer science) a unit for measuring the execution speed of a computer's CPU (but not the whole system); "4 MIPS is 4,000,000 instructions per second" MIPS ) application-specific Reduced Instruction Set Computing Noun 1. reduced instruction set computing - (computer science) a kind of computer architecture that has a relatively small set of computer instructions that it can perform reduced instruction set computer, RISC (RISC RISC in full Reduced Instruction Set Computing Computer architecture that uses a limited number of instructions. RISC became popular in microprocessors in the 1980s. ) processors in dual channels provide highly efficient SCSI command processing and bus control. This makes the ASC38C1600 ideal for workstation, storage cluster, data mining or other bandwidth-intensive applications as well as making it the optimum choice for high performance applications that require connectivity to many devices or connectivity with legacy devices. With outstanding performance as measured by industry benchmarks, the ASC38C1600 dramatically increases the peak data transfer rate of the current industry standard - Ultra2 SCSI . As an Ultra160/m SCSI product (employing a specific subset of Ultra3 SCSI features), the ASC38C1600 chip builds on the earlier Ultra2 SCSI by adding three core features: double-edge clocking, cyclical redundancy checking See CRC. (CRC (Cyclical Redundancy Checking) An error checking technique used to ensure the accuracy of transmitting digital data. The transmitted messages are divided into predetermined lengths which, used as dividends, are divided by a fixed divisor. ) and domain validation. Double-edge clocking effectively doubles the data transfer rate by clocking data on the SCSI bus on both the leading and trailing edge of the REQ or ACK signal. CRC relies on a proven 32-bit algorithm that ensures data integrity by including extra bytes on each data block. The CRC algorithm can detect error bursts up to 32 bits in length and reports any errors in the same manner as a parity error without requiring changes from the host software. CRC allows all data transfers to be validated as error-free. Domain validation technology negotiates speeds with each device and tests data integrity at full negotiated speed. If necessary, both initiator and target will shift down to a lower speed to provide error-free data exchange. Thus, domain validation further ensures fully reliable communication at the highest rate possible. About ConnectCom Solutions Inc. ConnectCom Solutions Inc., provides OEMs, resellers and end-users with superior connectivity products in the form of SOC, ("systems on chips"), boards and software across the major industry connection standards and a broad range of platforms. ConnectCom Solutions offers the latest technologies and aggressive connectivity performance in the computing and storage area networking (SAN) markets with its IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, New York, www.ieee.org) A membership organization that includes engineers, scientists and students in electronics and allied fields. 1394, SCSI and Fibre Channel products. As new architectures require ever higher performance, ConnectCom's ability to deliver high-speed communications connections is more important than ever. ConnectCom's leading edge systems and software make these connections seamless and easy. ConnectCom Solutions Inc., with headquarters in San Jose, Calif. and can be reached at 1150 Ringwood Court, San Jose, Calif., 95131. Telephone the company at 408/383-9400 or send faxes to 408/383-9612. You can also visit the company's Web site at www.ConnectCom.net. |
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