The Astek A3803-PMC-55 brings SAS functionality to SPARC Compact PCI (cPCI) and VME blades, allowing legacy SPARC and 5V-only (non PCI-X) blades to use modern SAS and SATA disk media. To simplify system builder's inventory control, the A3803-PMC-55 can operate in both 5V only environments (at PCI-66/64), and full rate 133Mhz/64-bit in PCI-X environments. The serial interface allows point-to-point connection offering higher performance, increased aggregate bandwidth, high availability with dual ported SAS drives, and enhanced reliability compared to parallel SCSI. The A3803-PMC-55 supports 3 Gbps SAS, 1.5 Gbps SAS, 3 Gbps SATA and 1.5Gbps SATA hard disk drives. External SAS expanders allow the A3803-PMC card to support up to 120 target disks.
| Host Bus Type |
64-bit/133MHz PCI-X, backward compatible to PCI 2.1 (5V tolerant) |
| Compliance |
PCI 2.2, PCI-X 1.0a, PCI-X 2.0 mode 1, IEEE 1386.1, VITA-39 |
| Data Transfer |
132MB/s (PCI 32-bit bus @33MHz)
264MB/s (PCI 64-bit bus@33MHz)
528MB/s (PCI 64-bit bus @66MHz)
800MB/s (PCI-X 64-bit bus @100MHz)
1056MB/s (PCI-X 64-bit bus @133MHz)
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| Modes |
Bus master DMA |
| PCI Voltage |
+3.3V +/- 5% (5V tolerant, universal PMC voltage keying) |
| PCI Power |
7.5 Watts excluding transceivers |
| SAS Bus |
Eight 3Gbps SAS/SATA ports |
| SAS Bandwidths |
Single lane – 300 MBps
Wide Port (2 lanes) – 600 MBps
Wide Port (4 lanes) – 1200 MBps |
Single SAS Lane – 600 MBps
Wide Port (2 lanes) –1200 MBps
Wide Port (4 lanes) – 2400 MBps |
| Connectors |
External |
Internal |
| A3803-PMC-55 |
Two- x4 SFF-8470 |
none |
| Form Factor |
5.87” x 2.91”, 150 mm x 75 mm PMC Mezzanine Card |
| Protocols |
SCSI |
| Device Support |
Thousands of SAS WWIDs, more than 120 target disks with SAS fan-out expanders |
| Agency Approval |
CE, Canada, FCC class A, UL Registered |
| Environments |
Operating |
Storage |
| Temperature |
0° to 55° C |
-40° to +85° C |
| Relative Humidity |
5 to 90% non-condensing |
5 to 90% non-condensing |
