Chapter 1

General Description

Chapter 1 is divided into the following sections:

Section 1.1, “TolerANT® Technology”

Section 1.2, “LSI53C810A Benefits Summary”

The LSI53C810A PCI to SCSI I/O processor brings high-performance I/O solutions to host adapter, workstation, and general computer designs, making it easy to add SCSI to any PCI system.

The LSI53C810A is a pin-for-pin replacement for the LSI53C810 PCI to SCSI I/O processor. It performs fast SCSI transfers in Single-Ended (SE) mode, and improves performance by optimizing PCI bus utilization.

The LSI53C810A integrates a high-performance SCSI core, a PCI bus master DMA core, and the LSI Logic SCSI SCRIPTS™ processor to meet the flexibility requirements of SCSI-1, SCSI-2, and future SCSI standards. It is designed to implement multithreaded I/O algorithms with a minimum of processor intervention, solving the protocol overhead problems of previous intelligent and nonintelligent adapter designs.

The LSI53C810A is fully supported by the LSI Logic Storage Device Management System (SDMS™), a software package that supports the Advanced SCSI Protocol Interface (ASPI). SDMS software provides BIOS and driver support for hard disk, tape, removable media products, and CD-ROM under the major PC operating systems.

The LSI53C810A is packaged in a compact rectangular 100-pin Plastic Quad Flat Pack (PQFP) package to minimize board space requirements. It operates the SCSI bus at 5 Mbytes/s asynchronously or 10 Mbytes/s synchronously, and bursts data to the host at full PCI speeds. The LSI53C810A increases SCRIPTS performance and reduces PCI bus overhead by allowing instruction prefetches of 4 or 8 Dwords.

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