LSISAS1064E

4-Port PCI Express to 3Gb/s SAS Controller

LSISAS1064E

The LSISAS1064E is a four-port 3Gb/s SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) controller that is based on the Fusion-MPT™ (message passing technology) architecture and provides an eight-lane PCI Express interface.

Features

  • Supports 8 PCI Express lanes at a transfer rate up to 2.5Gb/s per lane, full duplex
  • Automatically negotiates PCI Express link widths
    • Supports x8, x4, x1 link widths
  • PCI Express Hot Plug
  • Power management support
  • PCI Express software is compatible with PCI and PCI-X software
  • 4-port SAS/SATA Controller
    • Supports 2, 3, or 4-phy wide SAS port configurations
  • Supports 1.5 and 3Gb/s SAS and SATA data transfer rates per port, full duplex
  • Port independent auto-negotiation
  • Compatible with SATA target devices
  • Supports SSP, SMP, STP and SATA protocols
  • Supports SGPIO (SFF-8485)
  • Flash and local memory support
  • 636 EPBGA package
  • Integrated RAID support
  • Supported by Fusion MPT drivers with full operating system support:
    • Windows® 2000, XP, Server 2003
    • Linux™
    • Novell® Netware®
    • Solaris™ SPARC®
    • SCO-UnixWare™ and Open Server

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Benefits

  • Guaranteed interoperability with LSI Expanders
  • Unmatched performance with Fusion MPT architecture
    • Based on industry standard ARM technology
    • High throughput, low CPU utilization to offload the host processor
    • 3Gb/s bandwidth across SAS interface
    • Maximum aggregate bandwidth of up to 4.0 Gbytes (4000 Mbytes/s) on PCI Express
  • Time to market reduced with Fusion-MPT architecture
    • Common single binary driver for SAS, SCSI and Fibre Channel products
    • Thin, easy to develop drivers
    • Simpler integration and certification effort
  • Low risk mitation
    • Leverages existing SCSI infrastructure for investment protection