Highlights
  • Highly scalable to meet the needs of very large SAS topologies
  • SAS-2.1 compliant
  • PCIe Gen 3 System Interface
  • Driver control of all major control and data path functions
  • Support for wide-port initiator and wide-port target modes
  • High Performance SAS IO Controller
  • Verification, insertion and replacement of T10 Data Integrity Fields (DIF) as defined by SBC-2
Product Overview

The Tachyon SPCv 16x6G is a highly-integrated sixteen-port SAS/SATA 6G Protocol Controller optimized for embedded storage system applications and SAS/SATA HBA applications. The PM8018 is SAS 2.1 compliant and includes a PCIe Gen 3 system interface.

Benefits
  • Highest density, lowest power/port SAS controller solution available
  • Enterprise-class system performance, availability and manageability
  • End-to-end system diagnostics and error handling mechanisms from host to hard disk drive

Typical Applications include:

  • External RAID Storage Systems
  • Host Bus Adapters
  • Servers
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    Product Brief
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    Locked PDF Document PM8018 SPCv 16x6G Product Brief [448 KB] PMC-2091588 7 2012-06-29