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The Expansion Card option package includes the following items:
•Intel
®
Blade Server Fibre Channel Expansion Card SBEFCM4, 4 Gbps
•Intel
®
Blade Server Fibre Channel Expansion Card SBEFCM4, 4 Gbps Resource CD
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Major components of the Fibre Channel Expansion Card
The ISP2422 chip provides a PCI-X local bus interface and two completely independent 4 Gb serial
Fibre Channel ports. Each port has aRISC processor, an integrated serializer / deserializer
(SERDES), a receive DMA sequencer, frame buffer, five-channel DMA controller, and an external
memory interface in a single-chip solution.
BIOS ROM BIOS ROM 1 MB of flash memory (the flash is field programmable)
NVRAM NVRAM 512 bytes, field programmable
Onboard DMA Five-channel DMA controller for each port: transmit, receive,
command, auto-request, and auto-response
Frame buffer FIFO Integrated 4 KB transmit and 6 KB receive frame buffer FIFO for
each data channel
Dimensions Approximately 9.35 cm x 13.14 cm (3.683 in. x 5.275 in.)
Operating power Approximately 10 watts
Table 1. Fibre Channel Expansion Card specifications (continued)
Type Specification