vitesse semiconductor corporation page 1 8/31/98 741 calle plano, camarillo, ca 93012 ?805/388-3700 ?fax: 805/987-5896 vitesse semiconductor corporation advance product information v sc7122 quad port bypass circuit for 1.0625 gbit/sec fibre channel arbitrated loop disk arrays g52155-0, rev. 2.1 features general description the VSC7122 is a quad port bypass circuit (pbc). four fibre channel pbc s are cascaded into a single part to minimize part count, cost, high frequency routing, and jitter accumulation. port bypass circuits are used to provide resiliency in fibre channel arbitrated loop (fc-al) architectures. pbc s are used within fc-al disk arrays to allow for resiliency and hot swapping of fc-al drives. a port bypass circuit is a 2:1 multiplexer with two modes of operation: normal and bypass. in nor- mal mode, the disk drive is connected to the loop. data goes from the 7122 s l_son pin to the disk drive rx input and data from the disk drive tx output goes to the 7122 s l_sin pin. refer to figure 2 for disk drive application. in bypass mode, the disk drive is either absent or non-functional and data bypasses to the next available disk drive. normal mode is enabled with a high on the sel pin and bypass mode is enabled by a low on the sel pin. direct attach fibre channel disk drives have an ?rc interlock?signal de?ed to con- trol the sel function. using a VSC7122 in a single loop of a disk array is illustrated in figure 2: ?isk array application? fc- al drives are all expected to be dual loop. the VSC7122 is cascaded in a manner such that all the 7122 s inter- nal pbc s are used in the same loop. for dual loop implementations, two or more VSC7122 |