Designed to simplify storage system integration. Supporting SAS, SATA, and NVMe drives, superior LED management, safe boot with {hardware} encryption, and multi-backplane configurations — it delivers industry-standard UBM compliance with scalable efficiency for contemporary information storage architectures.
The EEC1005-UB2 by Microchip Know-how is a flexible and extremely configurable Common Backplane Administration (UBM) processor designed to streamline storage enclosure administration for exhausting drive backplanes. This system delivers seamless system integration by means of industry-standard communication protocols, guaranteeing environment friendly monitoring and reporting for computing host techniques. The household, distinguished by the UB1 and UB2 suffixes of their ordering numbers, represents an evolution in performance — with the UB2 variant providing vital enhancements over the unique UB1 (previously labeled as EEC1005). The EEC1005-UB2 provides broad compatibility with SAS, SATA, and NVMe storage units by means of help for a number of host interfaces.
Particularly, it permits using the SFF-8654 Slimline connector for SAS sign routing, enabling the Host Bus Adapter (HBA) to handle SAS or SATA drives. The identical connector, when used with PCIe sign routing, permits the HBA to deal with NVMe drives, sustaining UBM protocol compatibility and optionally supporting SGPIO relying on configuration. Moreover, EEC1005-UB2 permits drive connectivity through each U.2 and U.3 drive-facing connectors, additional boosting system design flexibility. The system is designed to handle a number of backplanes inside a single chassis, supporting scalable storage options.
It has superior storage LED administration, which complies with SFF-8489 IBPI specs by default. It will possibly management two or three LED IBPI blinking patterns for as much as 16 drives, and in addition permits customers to outline customized blink patterns by means of FRU programming. The system’s safe boot mechanism ensures system integrity by authenticating and decrypting the Flash boot picture utilizing AES-256 encryption, ECDSA P-256 signing, and SHA-256 hashing through its built-in cryptographic {hardware} accelerators.
It offers safe storage of personal keys and IDs by means of its lockable One-Time Programmable (OTP) reminiscence area. The system additional helps NVMe hot-plug and energy disable options, in addition to versatile host interface configuration through a single analog pin, permitting for seamless switching between SGPIO and UBM protocols as wanted. Out there in each 84-pin and 144-pin WFBGA package deal choices, the EEC1005-UB2 simplifies integration into various system architectures.
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