General Description

The FC106 Fibre Channel transceiver chip implements the lower layer protocols of the ANSI X3.230-1994 Fibre Channel standard. The Fibre Channel standard specifies the mapping of various upper layer protocols (ULP) such as SCSI, IP and HiPPI to a common lower layer protocol, together with appropriate electrical and optical high performance specifications. Fibre Channel provides a channel over which concurrent communication of a variety of ULP’s may exist on a single interconnect between workstations, mainframes and supercomputers, and provides a connection to mass storage devices and other peripherals.

FEATURES

■ Serial Link Transceiver

● serializer and deserializer

● implementing the Fibre Channel FC0 and FC1 layers

■ Direct support for 1.0625 GBaud Fibre Channel (ANSI X3.230-1994) rates

■ Fibre Channel 10-bit Interface (ANSI TR/X3.18-199X)

■ Direct interfaces to optical tranceivers

■ Plesiochronous mode operation

● transmitter and receiver clock

frequencies may differ by up to 100 ppm

■ Integrated Fibre Channel 8b/10b

encode/decode (optional use through JTAG)

■ Byte and word synchronization of incoming serial stream

■ Supports any DC-balanced encoding scheme

■ Internal Loop-Back for Self-Test

■ Random Pattern Auto-Test

■ Optional integrated impedance

adaptation to transmission line characteristics (50 or 75 ohms)

■ TTL compatible parallel I/O’s

■ JTAG Test Access Port

■ 0.35µ CMOS Technology for low cost and low power

■ PQFP package available in two sizes:

14x14 mm (FC106/14) or 10x10 mm (FC106/10)

APPLICATIONS

■ Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop

■ Fibre Channel fabric

■ Transmission schemes encoding

bytes as 10-bit characters to form a DC-balanced stream

■ High performance backplane interconnect