Q-Logic 8100 SERIES manual Series Adapter Components, Function

1–Product Overview Hardware Components

Figure 1-4shows the hardware components of a QLogic 8100 Series Adapter. Table 1-3describes the 8100 Series Adapter components.

	Figure 1-4. 8100 Series Adapter Components
		Table 1-3. 8100 Series Adapter Components
Hardware			Function
Component
ASIC			The Converged Network Controller, also known as the intelligent
			storage peripheral (ISP) controller, is the heart of the adapter. The
			Converged Network Controller is a single integrated ASIC that pro-
			vides the processing power that runs the FCoE and NIC protocols.
			The Converged Network Controller also interfaces with the PCIe
			host bus and controls the I/O operations of the adapter.
Flash			4MB nonvolatile memory, or Flash memory. It contains the boot
			code run by the converged network controller when the adapter is
			powered up. It contains multiple boot images [the FCode, x86 BIOS,
			extensible firmware interface (EFI)] to support a multi-boot capability
			on different platforms. It also contains the NVRAM that stores the
			per-port adapter configuration parameters, which configure the
			adapter during initialization. Adapter configuration parameters
			include boot device selection, Fibre Channel connection type (topol-
			ogy), frame size, Fibre Channel tape support, and so on.

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