Product Summary

The PM8380-NGL is a 4-Channel Multiplexer and Link Extender. The applications of the PM8380-NGL include Host Bus Adapter, RAID controller, Ethernet (1GE and 10 GE XAUI) and Fibre Channel (1,2 and 10 GFC) link extender, Ethernet (1GE and 10 GE XAUI) and Fibre Channel (1,2 and 10 GFC) mux/demux, PCI Express, PCI Advanced Switching, ATCA, serial RapidIO, Infiniband, and HDTV link extender and mux/demux.

Features

PM8380-NGL features: (1)Four bi-directional 2:1 SATA or SAS multiplexer/demultiplexer; (2)Compliant with SAS Internal and External specification; (3)SATA Gen1i, Gen1x, Gen2i, Gen2x compliant; (4)In the downstream direction, the QuadSMX 3G demuxes the; (5)initiator-side receive ports to either the A or B device-side transmit ports; (6)In the upstream direction, the QuadSMX 3G selects either the A; (7)or B device-side receive port to output on the initiator-side transmit ports; (8)Passes-thru out-of-band (OOB) signaling; (9)Internal OOB detectors for COMSAS, COMRESET/COMINIT and COMWAKE.; (10)Provides port reordering to support standard SATA/SAS 4 channel; (11)connectors and easier PCB routing.

Diagrams

PM8380-NGL block diagram