Applications

The SSC100 is ideal for remote monitoring and

control applications such as FC-AL storage enclosure

management.

The SSC100 may be used to

implement a complete SCSI Enclosure Services

(SES) or SAF-TE solution in Fibre Channel JBODs,

RAID subsystems and servers.

The embedded

firmware capabilities of the SSC100 allow storage

system architects to differentiate their products via

firmware.

Software Development Kit (SDK) is

provided by Vitesse to accelerate the development of

firmware Personality Modules.

Multiple SSC100s

may

be

used

in

fully

redundant,

dual

loop

applications with the use of a flexible heartbeat

mechanism.

Architecture

System Level Integration (SLI) techniques were used

to create a complete system on a chip. The SSC100

integrates

a

RISC

embedded

processor,

high

performance

Fibre

Channel

protocol

engine,

a

gigahertz transceiver and memory to create an

embedded system for enclosure management.

The SSC100 includes three, I

master controllers. These controllers may be used to

interface to off-the-shelf instrumentation and control

devices commonly used in environmental monitoring

and management applications such as Vitesse's

SSC050/055 Backplane Controller.

The SSC100 requires off chip memory for firmware

code storage.

Most applications will use flash

memory devices for non-volatile storage. Static RAM

may be added for higher performance applications.

The SSC100 has four external chip selects each with

a one-megabyte address range.

Two RS-232 serial ports provide assist firmware

debug. One port is dedicated to in circuit emulation

for the embedded processor.

The second port

implements a XMODEM connection for additional

debug and firmware download. Firmware downloads

are also supported via Fibre Channel.

Software

The software designed to execute on the SSC100

determines

the

characteristics

of

the

overall

enclosure management solution.

Most enclosure

management

applications

will

be

unique

to

a

customer's individual product. The SSC100 firmware

architecture uses a Personality Module with captures

the unique functionality required by a particular

application.

Vitesse

provides

a

Software

Development Kit (SDK) to customers to assist their

development of their Personality Module.

The SDK includes software to implement a FC

transport and SES diagnostic environment.

In

addition, the SDK also includes a System Services

module

with

provides

APIs

to

the

peripheral

functionality (interrupts, timers etc.) in the SSC100.

The System Services also includes driver libraries for

popular I

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32 Bit

Timer

Fibre

Channel

Core

General

Purpose

I/O

RISC

Engine

Interface

Serial

ICE

1024x32

SRAM

Memory

Interface

General

Purpose

UART

Interrupt

Control

Interface

Bus

Interface

Unit

Interface

SSC100 Block Diagram

Transport

Diagnostic Interface

Personality Module

System Services

SDK Firmware Block Diagram