Industry's first SAS-3 repeater for enterprise server, storage and router systems

DALLAS, USA: Texas Instruments (TI) introduced the industry's first signal conditioner capable of driving the serial-attached SCSI (SAS-3) protocol. In addition to supporting the faster data rates of the newest SCSI standard, the DS125BR800A multi-protocol repeater is compatible with existing 3-Gbps and 6-Gbps SAS link rates used in data center applications.

It also supports the PCI Express (PCIe) Gen-1, Gen-2, Gen-3 and SATA 1.5-Gbps, 3-Gbps and 6-Gbps interface standards. This flexibility allows equipment manufacturers to employ one device for multiple protocols with data rates up to 12.5 Gbps.

The 8-channel, unidirectional DS125BR800A consumes 35 percent less power and doubles the interconnect reach of current solutions, while enabling seamless management of the link training protocol. Additional SAS-3 multi-protocol repeaters will be available this year.

These SAS-3 devices join a comprehensive family of repeaters and retimers that combat signal impairments caused by insertion loss, jitter, reflections and crosstalk in high-speed enterprise server, storage and router applications.