AIM APS-FC-2-ASM Fibre Channel PCIe Module

The AIM APS-FC-2 Fibre Channel PCIe Module is a high performance intelligent PCIe module offering 2 ports with full function test, simulation, monitoring and analyser functions for Fibre Channel networks. The APS-FC-2 is a powerful State-of-the-Art 4-lane PCIe 2.0 compliant board with a maximum bandwidth of up to 2000MB/s concurrently in each direction. The architecture of the APS-FC-2 provides a dual core processor or each port and dedicated DDR3 RAM for handling Receiver and Transmitter tasks. Each port provides 4GB of low power DDR3 RAM, summarizing to 8GB for the complete module. This separation of the processing capabilities and onboard RAM per port makes each port operating independent from the other port. 2 high performance FPGAs implementing the customised Fibre Channel interfaces enables the board to analyse incoming and modify outgoing data in real time.

The ports can operate concurrently in Traffic Simulator or Receiver/Monitor modes with support for port related Frame Statistics. The TAP mode provides a possibility of monitoring traffic between 2 Fibre Channel ports without interacting to the attached ports. Source or destination ID packet capturing and monitoring features are complimented with powerful triggering and filtering capabilities. Supported Fibre Channel network topologies are Point-to-Point, Switched Fabric and Arbitrated Loop. Service Classes 1, 2 and 3 are fully supported, Link Level parameters are user definable. 4GB DDR3 RAM is provided for each port to implement large receive buffers and complex transmit scenarios onboard.

The flexible frontend implementation allows the user to select the Fibre Channel network speed of 1 to 4GFC by software command. The APS-FC-2 module provides 2 Fibre Channel ports implementing either an optical or electrical full duplex interface. The SFP cage makes it suitable for different media types as optical or electrical network technologies.

The APS-FC-2 module is available with following optional software: PBA.pro the most scalable and flexible application framework focusing on Test, Simulation and Integration under Windows and Linux offering ARINC818, FC-AE-RDMA or FC-AE-ASM Analyser functionality including decoding of Payload Data. PBA.pro Database Support offers great flexibility for analysing and easily setup of user defined frame contents.