VSC205

The VSC205 offers dedicated port enclosure management across a parallel SCSI bus. The VSC205's integrated LVD SCSI controller is used to provide a high performance, SES or SAF-TE solution. No external components are required with this approach; the VSC205 integrates both the data and command buffers and control logic. This architecture provides system designers with a common platform for various SCSI bus speeds and physical interfaces.

The VSC205 is an enclosure management controller for peripheral storage applications. This device supports in-band and out of band management strategies. The VSC205 implements in-band SES and SAF-TE enclosure management via the integrated SCSI interface. Out of band solutions are possible using IPMI (Intelligent Platform
Management Interface) or through a customer unique approach.

JBOD and RAID subsystem developers are provided a common hardware and software platform, which supports all common subsystem diagnostic and enclosure management strategies. The VSC205 may be used as the master controller of a I²C serial interface communicating with scalable slave backplane controllers such as Vitesse VSC055/050 and other industry standard devices.