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4 Day Course

SAS Plus Updated to SAS-2.0:
Our existing course, which has been praised by industry experts for its content and delivery, has been updated to include the latest of SAS-2.0. New subjects are Zoning, Multiplexing, 6 Gbps, Training, New Counters and SMP and STP Time Limits. Existing sections of the course have also been upgraded to the new standard.

SAS (Serial Attached SCSI)is the logical evolution of SCSI that addresses enterprise storage requirements for larger capacity, density, security, scalability and accessibility, while offering SCSI compatibility along with the reliability, performance and manageability of Parallel SCSI. SATA 2.6 (Serial ATA) will become the dominate disk drive interface on the desktop and for new applications like "near line" storage. This 4-day seminar provides students with the most current SAS 2.0 and SATA 2.6 industry developments, directions and data necessary to be fully informed and abreast of the latest advances in these exciting technologies. Class participants will examine the development of SAS 2.0 and SATA 2.6 into a storage solution. Students will investigate the ability of these technologies to offer increased customer choice by allowing a single infrastructure to support both enterprise class SAS drives and SATA 2.6 drives for cost-sensitive applications. Students will examine both of these interfaces in detail at all architecture levels. This course is ideal for those seeking a detailed understanding of these new technologies, their workings, and the impact they will have within the industry.

Our newest demonstration uses an analyzer, host bus adapter, expanders, SATA 2.6 and SAS 2.0 disk drives to fully explore the SAS 2.0 and SATA 2.6 transports and how they relate to the SCSI and ATA command sets. Emphasis will be placed on the initialization steps of Open Identify, Discovery, expander operations and on the operational steps of Open Address, transfer information and closing. SAS Protocols demonstrated will be SSP, SMP and STP. This demonstration class uses real equipment to ensure real learning.
 
SATA-Serial ATA 2.6 Overview
Serial ATA 2.6 Concept
Shadow Registers
Frames and FIS
PIO Command Execution
DMA Command Execution
Flow Control
Serial Engine Overview

Transport Layer
Transport Layer Functions
Frame Information Structures
Interface to Host HW/SW/FW
Interface to Drive HW/FW

Link Layer
Link Layer Functions
8b/10b Encoding
Primitives & Primitive Signaling
Scrambling

Physical (Phy) Layer
Phy Layer Functions
Clocking
Out-of-Band Signaling
Internal Transmit Path
Internal Receive Path
Cable Signaling Interface

Power Management
Requirement for Power Management
Interface Power States
Power Management Primitives
COMWAKE Signal Sequence

State Model Description
State Description Method
Host and Device Transport States
Link Layers States

Additional Topics
Error Handling Philosophy
First Part DMA
Port Multiplier
Future SATA Improvements

Annotated Specs & Design GuidesSATA 2.6 Annotated Specs & Design Guides

SAS Overview
Why Serial Attached SCSI?
Protocols
 SAS, STP, SSP, SMP
Initiators
Targets
Expanders
Links (Physical vs. Logical)
Ports (1x and 4x)
Physical Layer
Link Layer
Transport Layer

Logical Operation Overview
SAS
STP
SSP, SMP

Physical Layer
Physical Layer Functions
Connectors/Cables
  Single port
  Dual port
  1x wide
  4x wide
Driver/Receiver electrical characteristic

Link Layer
Link Layer functions
8b/10b encoding
OOB
Primitives and usage
Address frames and usage
Link initialization
Power management
Loopback tests
Physical vs. logical links
Scrambling
SSP Connections
STP Connections
Error handling

Transport Layer
Transport Layer Functions
SSP Overview
  Frames/IU's
  IU Sequences
  IU Details
STP Overview
 Flow
  Initiator to expander
  Expander to target
 Flow Control
   Buffering
SMP Overview
 Frames
 Flow control
 Functions

State Machines
Descriptions & Operations
  SSP Transport & Link
  SMP Transport & Link
  SAS Link

Expanders
Overview
Resets
Discovery
Poser Management
STP Multi-initiator
Expander communication
Multiple expanders
Latency issues
Errors

Future?
Zoning
Test Patterns
More Primitives
More Counters
6Gbps
Multiplexing
and more...

SAS SpecificationsSAS Specifications

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July 7-10, 2008M, T, W, ThColorado (Longmont) $1,995
August 26-29, 2008M, T, W, ThCalifornia (Milpitas) $1,995
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