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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 23, 2002
Filed:
Oct. 30, 1998
Joseph H. Steinmetz, Rocklin, CA (US);
Matthew P. Wakeley, Roseville, CA (US);
Bryan J. Cowger, Roseville, CA (US);
Michael I. Thompson, Bothell, WA (US);
Agilent Technologies, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A FC controller that interfaces between a host system and a 10-bit FC interface is herein described. The FC controller acts as both a FCP initiator and FCP target device and has the capability to receive and process SCSI I/O requests received from a FC and a host system. The FC controller can process both multiple inbound and outbound sequences simultaneously since it does not employ a processor-based architecture. Rather, the FC controller relies on specialized circuitry that can operate in a relatively independent manner so that multiple tasks are performed concurrently thereby achieving a faster throughput and data transfer rate.