HPFC-5000

• Single chip Fibre Channel interface (no I/O processor required)
• Supports 1062.5, 531, and 266 MBaud links
• Supports 3 topologies; direct connect, fabric, and Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL)
• Supports Fibre Channel Class 1, 2, and 3 Services
• Supports up to 2-Kbyte frame payload for all classes of service
• Sequence segmentation/ reassembly in hardware
• Automatic ACK frame generation and processing
• On-chip support of FCP for SCSI Initiators and Targets
• Supports up to 16,384 concurrent SCSI I/O transactions
• Compliant with Internet MIBII network management
• Direct interface to industry standard 10 and 20-bit Gigabit Link Modules (GLM)
• Hardware assists for TCP/ UDP/IP networking
• Parity protection on internal data path
• Eight internal DMA channels
• Full duplex internal architecture that allows TACHYON to process inbound and outbound data simultaneously

TACHYON is a fundamental  building block compatible with Hewlett-Packard's Fibre Channel solution which includes interface controllers, physical link modules, adapters, switches and disk drives.

The TACHYON architecture supports both networking and mass storage connections to provide a low cost, high performance solution with low host overhead.