Specifications

Installation
Features
The Emulex LP1050Ex host bus adapter offers highly integrated 2Gb/s Fibre Channel
connectivity solutions for storage area networks. The LP1050Ex is a new member of the
LP1050 family and is designed for use with PCI-Express servers. The LP1050Ex HBA delivers
state of the art performance through the use of "Thor", Emulex’s sixth generation Fibre
Channel controller and is a single port HBA in a standard height, half-length card form
factor.
The PCI-Express architecture is an open specification designed to address the wide range
of current and future system interconnect requirements. It also defines a flexible, scalable,
high-speed, serial, point-to-point, hot pluggable/hot swappable interconnect that is
software-compatible with PCI.
The PCI-Express architecture allows the LP1050Ex to use the same drivers and
management tools as the LP1050 host bus adapters for PCI and PCI-X systems. Emulex’s
unique Service Level Interface (SLI) driver architecture, which enables the independence
of the operating systems device driver from the underlying HBA platform, will allow OEMs
and end users to migrate to this new system architecture seamlessly (without having to
change or rewrite drivers utilities and other management tools). Emulex’s firmware-based
architecture, which allows for new features and other upgrades without costly changes to
the adapter hardware, provides the kind of technical flexibility and investment protection
that is critical when working with new and evolving technology.
Major Features
● Compliant with the PCI-Express 1.0a
❍ x1 or x4 lane link interface at 2.5Gbit/s per lane (auto-negotiated with
system)
❍ Support VC0 (1 Virtual Channel) and TC0 (1 Traffic Class)
❍ Configuration / IO / Memory read/write, completion, message
❍ Support 64-bit addressing
❍ 32-bit CRC for all transmitted data packets
❍ 16-bit CRC on all link message information
Emulex Documentation, Drivers and Software
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