Patent ID: 6571367
Filing Date: 2003-05-27
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
Apparatus for connecting between a serial fibre channel link and a global memory comprising:a bidirectional physical interface for terminating the fibre channel link at a first port and an electrical interface signal a second port, a bidirectional conversion circuitry connected to the second port for connecting between the electrical interface signal and a PCI data signal, a bidirectional lower machine connected to a CPU bus for connecting between the PCI data signal and a multi-pipe input/output signal, an error detection and correction circuitry for converting between said multi-pipe input/output signal and a corrected input/output signal, a plurality of dual port random-access-memories for storing the corrected input/output signal and forwarding said the corrected input/output signal to a global memory, a secondary port interface connected to the CPU bus, and to the conversion circuitry, over a secondary port interface bus, for controlling the conversion circuitry, and a second random-access-memory connected to said secondary port interface bus.