Product Overview

• 20 independent rate selectable 1.0625, 2.125 or 4.25 Gbit/s physical interfaces.
• Register and software compatible to the PM8368 PBC 18x2G, PM8369 PBC 18x4G, PM8372 PBC 4x2G and PM8377 PBC 4x4G.
• 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).