Software development tools are available to developers who use the SCSI SCRIPTS language to create customized SCSI software applications. The LSI53C810A allows easy firmware upgrades and is supported by advanced SCRIPTS commands.

1.1 TolerANT® Technology

The LSI53C810A features TolerANT technology, which includes active negation on the SCSI drivers and input signal filtering on the SCSI receivers. Active negation actively drives the SCSI Request, Acknowledge, Data, and Parity signals HIGH rather than allowing them to be passively pulled up by terminators. Active negation is enabled by setting bit 7 in the SCSI Test Three (STEST3) register.

TolerANT receiver technology improves data integrity in unreliable cabling environments where other devices would be subject to data corruption. TolerANT receivers filter the SCSI bus signals to eliminate unwanted transitions, without the long signal delay associated with RC-type input filters. This improved driver and receiver technology helps eliminate double clocking of data, the single biggest reliability issue with SCSI operations. The TolerANT input signal filtering is a built in feature of all LSI Logic fast SCSI devices. On the LSI53C8XX family products, the user may select a filtering period of 30 or 60 ns, with bit 1 in the SCSI Test Two (STEST2) register.

The benefits of TolerANT technology include increased immunity to noise when the signal is going HIGH, better performance due to balanced duty cycles, and improved fast SCSI transfer rates. In addition, TolerANT SCSI devices do not cause glitches on the SCSI bus at power-up or power-down, so other devices on the bus are also protected from data corruption. TolerANT technology is compatible with both the Alternative One and Alternative Two termination schemes proposed by the American National Standards Institute.

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LSI 53C810A technical manual TolerANT Technology