Thursday, November 8, 2007

FCIP Protocol Description


I also added a page to cover Fibre Channel over IP, or FCIP.

FCIP enable the transmission of Fibre Channel (FC) information by tunneling data between storage area network (SAN) facilities over IP networks

However; as of today the page is only a place holder, until I have time to update the information.

iSCSI Description

I added a page to cover iSCSI, or Internet SCSI.

iSCSI is really a protocol and not a physical bus, but I added under both the hardware buses and the protocol sections. iSCSI provides a mean of sending SCSI commands over an IP network.

The original SCSI interface is a physical parallel interface bus. The latest version, although not back-ward compatible is called Serial SCSI or SAS 'Serial Attached SCSI.

Tuesday, November 6, 2007

ST-Bus

I added a page to cover the Serial Telcom Bus, or ST-Bus.

A serial Bus standard from Zarlink. The page only has a few paragraphs just now, but I do provide a link to Zarlink specification in pdf format. I'm giving just enough data to tell what type of serial interface it is until I have time to get back and enhance the page

Monday, November 5, 2007

Analog Audio ICs


I split the analog IC Manufacturers page into three sections;
General Analog ICs, the main page;
IC Codec Manufacturers,
Modem IC Manufacturers.

Each of the sub-pages were derived from the main Audio IC page. All the IC manufactures links seemed to still be working.

A Codec is similar to a ADC, A-to-D converters are listed on the A to D and D to A Converter ICs page.

Sunday, November 4, 2007

Annular Ring

I noticed the Blog feed stats was showing a few hits for these search terms;
Annular Ring: 50 hits
Annular Rings: 5 hits
Minimum Annular Ring: 4 hits

So I added this page to cover the Minimum Annular Ring definition. Than a second page to cover odd shaped PCB Pads.