Product Overview
  • Rate selectable 1.0625, 2.125 or 4.25 Gbit/s physical interfaces.
  • Pin, software and register compatible with PM8368 PBC 18x2G and PM8369 PBC 18x4G.
  • Compliant to FC jitter specifications on a per-port basis.
  • Supports single-ended or differential 106.25 MHz reference clock.
  • Per port monitoring and diagnostics:
  • LPSM Monitoring on each port.
  • Disk isolation and per port serial loopback.
  • Configurable Digital Loss of Link: analog LOS Detect, 8B/10B disparity errors/error rate, CRC errors/error rate, word synchronization error/error rate, and compliant frequency of comma patterns detected (configurable thresholds for each with corresponding pin interrupts).

Typical Applications include:

  • SBOD Storage Systems.
  • MBOD Storage Systems.
  • RAID Storage Systems.
  • JBOD Storage Systems.
  • FC to SATA Storage Systems.
  • FC-AL Nodes.
  • Fibre Channel Hubs.
  • 1.0625, 2.125, 4.25 Gbit/s Backplanes.

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Product Brief
      Version Issue Date
  PDF Document PM8378 CTS 18x4G 18-Port 4.25 Gbit/s FC-AL Cut-Through Switch Short Form Data Sheet [77 KB] PMC-2030688 2 2004-03-23
Data Sheet
      Version Issue Date
Locked PDF Document CTS 18x4G ASSP Standard Product Data Sheet [1.79 MB] PMC-2031529 6 2005-11-28