‘Scsi’
An Electronicstalk guide
Start with the news release
Kontron server includes PCI Express functionality from
Kontron, which we summarised at the time by saying "Using the PCI Express Butterfly Backplane, the Kontron Industrial Silent Server (Kiss) 2U may be equipped with up to four PCI Express x4 cards and one PCI Express x16 (PEG) card. ".
Several months prior to that,
we featured the news release Pericom launches crystal oscillators from
Pericom Semiconductor Corp: "Pericom Semiconductor and Designcon have announced the production availability of a family of low-jitter, low-power, high-frequency crystal oscillators developed using the company's XP technology.".
In November 2008, we covered the news from Tektronix
- take a look at Tetronix introduces SDLA software
which says: "Tektronix has announced serial data link analysis (SDLA) software for the DSA70000 real-time oscilloscope series to fully test high-speed serial data designs. ".
Take a look also at the news release from Harting, Harting extends cable and cable assembly range,
as well as High-speed serdes handles many protocols from Vitesse Semiconductor,
and Serial interfaces accelerate storage links from Pericom Semiconductor Corp.
Latest stories...
SBC boosts graphics power (July 2008)
The V7812 is the first GE Fanuc SBC to take advantage of the capabilities of the newly-released Intel 5100 MCH (Memory Controller Hub) chipset.
USB acquisition devices sample faster (May 2008)
Light and compact devices deliver high-performance I/O for portable USB applications such as field measurements and laptop-based data acquisition.
Mezzanine module has fast-access hard drive (March 2008)
AdvancedMC module provides up to 146Gbyte of SAS hard disk storage for critical applications that demand leading edge system storage capabilities.
Expander ICs lay groundwork for 6Gbit/s SAS (March 2008)
The LSI SAS2x36 is a 36-port 6Gbit/s SAS expander with an integrated ARM processor for topology management functions such as discovery and enclosure services.
CPU board boosts processing, but not power usage (March 2008)
Based on the Intel Core 2 Duo processor up to the E6400 (2 x 2.16 GHz) and a TDP of 65W, applications benefit from double the performance with power consumption similar to a Pentium 4.
Single-board computers provide I/O boost (March 2008)
The V7768 and V7769 provide system designers with the flexibility to cost-effectively accommodate extensive and varied I/O functionality, while delivering outstanding processing performance
Backplane transceiver has scope for verification (February 2008)
Multirate backplane transceiver incorporates the latest clock-data recovery (CDR) techniques and embeds an oscilloscope function into the receiver of input CDR circuits.
RAID-on-chip device finds home in server (January 2008)
Fujitsu Siemens Computers Primergy servers will incorporate a range of hardware- and software-based SAS/SATA products from LSI.
Further reading
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SCSI-2 connector does away with pin and socket
68-position MDR I/O board-mount connector conforms to the standard contact pattern of popular SCSI-2 pin-and-socket interfaces.
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Storage system combines NAS and iSCSI modes
The DNF Storage StorBank-XL 40t is an innovative hybrid storage system comprising NAS and iSCSI (File and Block modes) offering advanced features, high performance and extended reliability.
