Patent ID: 6425034
Filing Date: 2002-07-23
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A fibre channel controller that simultaneously processes, in parallel multiple fibre channel frames between a host device and a fibre channel transceiver coupled to a fibre channel communication medium, the fibre channel controller comprising:PCI bus interface that interfaces the fibre channel controller with the PCI bus of the host device; an outbound control unit that receives data for a fibre channel frame from the host device via the PCI bus, transforms the received data into an output fibre channel frame, and passes the outbound fibre channel frame to the fibre channel via the fibre channel transceiver; and an inbound control unit that, independent from, and in parallel with, the outbound control unit, receives a fibre channel frame from the fibre channel via the fibre channel transceiver and passes data from the received fibre channel frame to the host device via the PCi bus.