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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 SATA 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 Specifications

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Dates	Days	Location	Price
July 7-10, 2008	M, T, W, Th	Colorado (Longmont)	$1,995
August 26-29, 2008	M, T, W, Th	California (Milpitas)	$1,995
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