Fibre Channel Adapters for PMC & PCI - VMFC-2250

The VMFC-2250 is a third generation Fibre Channel Adapter from VMETRO, available in PMC and PCI form factors. It utilizes the QLogic ISP2200 chip that maintains full duplex communication. The VMFC-2250 Fibre Channel Adapter is specifically designed to maximize throughput while minimizing transfer latency and host processor overhead in embedded real-time applications. In addition to mainstream Fibre Channel applications such as disk storage, this interface is particularly well suited to applications where low latency communications and high sustained throughput are essential. This includes areas such as multi-processor communications (telecom & radar signal processing), sensor I/O (radar, sonar & image processing), and ultra-high performance computer networks (digital broadcasting & subsystem to subsystem data links). The high-speed, on-chip RISC processor and high-level software interface enable the controller to complete multiple I/O operations without host intervention.

Features

• Sustained 100+ MBytes/sec transfer rate in both directions
  
• Onboard protocol engine minimizes host intervention, 40% more powerful compared to previous models
  
• Full Fibre Channel protocol and topology support,
• Switched Fabric, Arbitrated Loop, Point-to-Point
  
• Under-the-hood control of the QLogic Fibre Channel chip gives transfer rate close to the theoretical possible on Fibre Channel
  
• Hardware boosted IP (Internet Protocol)
  
• Low latency Remote DMA protocol.
  
• Extremely reliable broadcast due to large external receive FIFO
  
• Integrated Hub with dual optical ports simplifies system configuration and allows redundancy
  
• Bus mastering 66 MHz 64 bit PCI with DMA
  
• Dual-port Copper, Dual-port Fiber Optic or Copper and Fiber Optic "Combo" configurations
  
• 30 m cable length with copper, 10 km possible with optical interface
  
• Full suite of flexible driver software
  
• VxWorks driver for MIDAS and PowerPC SBCs
  
• Windows NT driver for workstation integration
  
• MC/OS™ API for RACEway computers (MIDAS RX)
  
• Best performer in the 1Gb/s Fibre Channel market today!
  

VMETRO Inc., 1880 Dairy Ashford, Suite 400, Houston, TX 77077. Tel: 281-584-0728; Fax: 281-584-9034.