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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 15, 2007
Filed:
Aug. 30, 2002
Gerald Lebizay, Madison, NJ (US);
Brian E. Peebles, Cranford, NJ (US);
David W. Gish, Riverdale, NJ (US);
Don V. Massa, Paterson, NJ (US);
Jay L. Gerbehy, Califon, NJ (US);
Gerald Lebizay, Madison, NJ (US);
Brian E. Peebles, Cranford, NJ (US);
David W. Gish, Riverdale, NJ (US);
Don V. Massa, Paterson, NJ (US);
Jay L. Gerbehy, Califon, NJ (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Multiple boards are connected within a chassis, using a multi-port Target Channel Adapter (TCA). Data is transported from a TCA on a board directly to a TCA on another board through a meshed backplane. The meshed backplane is equipped to mount boards via connectors and may consist of a fabric of copper conductors or optical fibers. Communication from TCA to TCA requires placing ports on each individual TCA along with the appropriate input and output buffering. A multi-port TCA capable of performing multiple bridging functions simultaneously i.e., bridging from a high speed serial meshed backplane to multiple local busses, i.e., Gigabit Ethernet, Fibre Channel, and TCP/IP devices, is referred to as a Fabric Interconnect Chip (FIC).