The Ready LED Out signal is designed to pull down the cathode of an LED. The anode is attached to the proper +3.3 volt supply through an appropriate current limiting resistor. The LED and the current limiting resis- tor are external to the drive. See Table 14 for the output characteristics of the LED drive signals.

Table 14:

LED drive signal

 

 

 

 

 

State

 

Test condition

Output voltage

 

 

 

 

LED off, high

 

0 V VOH 3.6 V

-100 µA < IOH < 100 µA

 

 

 

 

LED on, low

 

IOL = 15 mA

0 VOL 0.225 V

 

 

 

 

9.5.2Differential signals

The drive SAS differential signals comply with the intra-enclosure (internal connector) requirements of the SAS standard.

Table 15 defines the general interface characteristics.

Table 15: General interface characteristics

Characteristic

Units

1.5 Gbps

3.0 Gbps

 

 

 

 

Bit rate (nominal)

Mbaud

1,500

3,000

 

 

 

 

Unit interval (UI)(nominal)

ps

666.6

333.3

 

 

 

 

Impedance (nominal, differential )

ohm

100

100

 

 

 

 

Transmitter transients, maximum

V

± 1.2

± 1.2

 

 

 

 

Receiver transients, maximum

V

± 1.2

± 1.2

 

 

 

 

9.5.2.1Eye masks

9.5.2.1.1Eye masks overview

The eye masks are graphical representations of the voltage and point. The time values between X1 and (1 - X1) cover all but 10-12of the total jitter population has a range of ± 7 standard deviations.

time limits on the signal at the compliance of the jitter population. The random content

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