Agilent HHBA-5218, HHBA-5219
Low Profile, 2 Gb/s Fibre Channel Adapters
for High Performance Applications
Product Overview
Product Description
Agilent’s HHBA-5218 and
HHBA-5219 are low profile,
2 Gb/s, 64-bit, 66 MHz PCI to
Fibre Channel Adapters for
enterprise Storage Area Network
(SAN) applications. The low
profile Fibre Channel Adapters
provide auto-speed negotiation
for seamless integration in one
and two Gigabit environments.
The low profile adapters are
specifically designed for use in
1U and 2U servers. The versatil-
ity of the new Fibre Channel
Adapters is based on Agilent’s
market-leading Tachyon Fibre
Channel (FC) controllers, offer-
ing unmatched performance and
flexibility.
Broad Product Offering
Agilent’s low profile 2 Gb/s
adapters support both fiber-optic
and copper cable connections.
For high-end applications where
performance and reliability are
critical, the HHBA-5219 comes
with a Small Form Factor (SFF)
embedded LC optical transceiver
for use with mutimode optical
cable. For applications requiring
either an optical or copper
interface, the HHBA-5218
includes a cage (receptacle) for a
Small Form Factor Pluggable
(SFP) LC optical or an HSSDC-2
copper transceiver.
Scalable Performance Matches
Demanding SAN Requirements
The 2 Gb/s Fibre Channel Adapters
are powered by Agilent Tachyon
controllers, based on a Finite State
Machine (FSM) architecture. The
FSM allows performance to scale
seamlessly with increased server
CPU power. By contrast, processor-
based adapters are limited by the
maximum performance of the
processor itself.
Software Support
Agilent offers a Tachyon
Software Developer’s Kit (TSDK)
for Windows NT® 4.0, Linux
environments and VXWorks.
Features
•Low profile, MD2 short card
•64-bit, 66 MHz universal PCI
interface (2.2 compliant)
•Fibre channel data transfer rates:
–Up to 200 MB/s (half duplex)
–Up to 400 MB/s (full duplex)
•Auto speed negotiation 1 or 2 Gb/s
•LED link speed indicator
•Loop and fabric boot BIOS, EFI
support
•FC class 2 and 3
•FC tape class 3
•Supports fibre channel arbitrated
loop (FC-AL) including public loop
and fabric (F- and FL-port login)
•Copper and optical media
interfaces
–HHBA-5218: Small Form Factor
Pluggable (SFP) cage
–HHBA-5219: Small Form Factor
(SFF) LC optical transceiver
Applications
•Storage Area Networks (SANs)
•Clustering
•Back-up
•Near on-line storage
•Video editing and CAD
•Data mining
•Data warehousing
•OLTP
•RAID and JBOD
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Specifications
Fibre Channel Operation
Fibre Channel Data Rate 2 Gbit/sec: 200 MBytes/sec (half duplex), 400 MBytes/sec (full duplex)
Auto-Speed Negotiation 1 or 2 Gb/s
BIOS Support INT13, Legacy BIOS for IA-64, Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI)
Topology Arbitrated Loop – Public and Private, Fabric support (F- and FL-login)
FC Service Class Class 2 (ACK_0, ACK_1) and Class 3
Upper Layer Protocol SCSI FCP – On-chip automation of complete SCSI I/O
Loop Initialization Completely hardware-based for high availability
Link Diagnostics Link Status indicators, internal/external loopback
Link Speed 2 Gb status indicator
Compliance FC-PH, FC-AL, FC-PLDA, FCP-SCSI
PCI
Compliance PCI Local Bus Specifications Rev. 2.2
Rate & Width 66/33 MHz, 64/32-bit PCI
Burst Transfer Rate 528 Mbytes/sec, guaranteed for length of frame, inbound & outbound at 64-bit, 66 MHz
Dual Address Cycle Support Yes (64-bit PCI addressing)
Hot Plug Support Yes
Additional PCI Features Zero wait state multiple cache line bursting capable up to full frame size, 32-byte cache line
Tachyon XL2 Architectural Features
Complete Hardware-based Design Less than one interrupt per I/O
Numerous independent functional blocks concurrently processing inbound data, outbound data,
control and commands in hardware
Automation of complete I/O on-chip in hardware results in lowest latency & I/O overhead and highest
levels of parallelism
Physical and Environmental
PCB Size Low Profile PCI Card, MD2 form factor (length 6.6" x height 2.536")
PCB Power 7W max at 5V ± 5%
Supply Voltage 3.3V ± 5%, 5V ± 5%
Operating Temperature Range 0° to 55° Centigrade (no airflow)
Storage Temperature Range -40° to 70° Centigrade
Relative Humidity up to 90% (non-condensing)
Softwrae Support
Tachyon Software Developer’s Kit Windows NT 4.0
(TSDK) Linux Environments
VXWorks
Certifications
FCC Class B US/FDA/CDRH Laser AEL Class 1 (2 CFR)
CE TÚV Rheinland Laser AEL Class 1 (EN60825-1+A11)
VCC ITE Class Yes
C-TICK (AZ/NZS 3548) Yes
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Product Offering Description
Low Profile Products
HHBA-5218x Single Adapter card with SFP transceiver cage
HHBA-5218xP Bulk packaging includes Adapter card with SFP transceiver cage
HHBA-5218xP1 Bulk packaging includes Adapter card with SFP optical transceiver
HHBA-5219x Single Adapter card with SFF transceiver
HHBA-5219xP Bulk packaging Adapter card with SFF transceiver
Standard Products
HHBA-5220x Single Adapter card with SFP transceiver cage
HHBA-5220xP Bulk packaging includes Adapter card with SFP transceiver cage
HHBA-5220xP1 Bulk packaging includes Adapter card with SFP optical transceiver
HHBA-5221x Single Adapter card with SFF transceiver
HHBA-5221xP Bulk packaging Adapter card with SFF transceiver
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Data subject to change.
Copyright © 2002 Agilent Technologies, Inc.
Obsoletes 5988-6668EN
July 25, 2002
5988-7406EN
