SSC050
SSC050 is I2C Backplane Controller manufactured by Vitesse.
Overview
I2C Serial Interface
The SSC050 uses an I2C serial interface to municate with embedded controllers such as Vitesse’ s SSC100/200 and VSC205/210. The slave interface on the SSC050 uses a three-bit (A2:0) addressing scheme for identification on the serial interface. The ASEL pin determines the four-bit device type identifier. Up to sixteen, SSC050 or VCS055 devices may reside on a single I2C serial interface.
I/O Pins
The SSC050 has forty bi-directional I/O pins. The functionality of these pins is configurable via programming of the SSC050. All I/O pins have a 12m A drive strength and support 3.3V TTL. To enable the designer to configure and program the SSC050, the forty I/Os are arranged in registers of eight pins. Certain groups of pins have additional functionality beyond simple input or output to support the integrated fan speed sensors and FC-AL port bypass control.
Device Features
I2C Serial Interface (DC to 400Khz) 4 Fan Speed Monitor Inputs 40 Programmable, Bi-directional I/O Pins Flexible FC-AL Port Bypass Control Logic Bit Programmable Interrupt Control Seven LED Flash Rates 64 PQFP Package
Cu or Optics
PBC_EN
VSC7120
Local I/O (x8) VSC7120 VITESSE Embedded Controller (SSC100) Flash (64K x 8)
PBC_EN1 PBC_EN2 PBC_EN3 PBC_EN4 PBC_EN
X24C16 EEPROM
Drive Bay 1 VSC7122 Drive Bay 2 Drive Bay 3 Drive Bay 4
I C Serial Interface
Temperature Sensor (LM75)
VITESSE Backplane Controller (VSC050)
Power Supplies LEDs (x8) Fans (x4)
Application for a Single Loop, Single Controller with Four Drives
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LED Flash Rate Control
The built-in flexibility of the SSC050 allows all forty of the I/O pins to drive LEDs through a pull-up resistor. Each pin is independently programmed to flash an LED at one of seven predefined flash rates.
FC-AL Port Bypass Control
Up to sixteen of the forty I/Os may be configured to monitor and manage FC-AL port bypass control devices. Eight pairs of I/Os include special logic to monitor Enable Bypass signals, which may be...