Product Overview

The Tachyon DE4 (PMC-Sierra HPFC-6700 Series) is a high-performance, low-cost, 2-port, 4-Gb Fibre Channel controller. It features a 4-lane native PCI-Express bus enabling full-duplex operation. DE4 is an integrated single chip solution ideal for cost-constrained storage systems used in small and medium-sized business (SMB) environments as well as HBA market opportunities.

• 2-port 4/2/1 Gb/s Fibre Channel controller
• MDIO/I2C control for optical transceivers
• Variable block size support: 512/520 bytes
• Auto-speed negotiation
• PCI-Express x4 support
• Supports 1Km distance at 4G link rate with internal memory
• Full-duplex operation for each port
• Advanced data integrity protection
• Data Mirroring support with H/W assisted data replication in host memory
• MTID support for Loop and point-to-point modes
• Industry-leading technical support and documentation
• Software development API tools for Linux, Windows, and VxWorks