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Agilent HDMP-0452 Quad Port Bypass Circuit with CDR for Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loops
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Description The HDMP-0452 is a Quad Port Bypass Circuit (PBC) with a Clock and Data Recovery (CDR) circuit included. This device minimizes part count, cost and jitter accumulation while repeating incoming signals. Port Bypass Circuits are used in hard disk arrays constructed in Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL) configurations. By using Port Bypass Circuits, hard disks may be pulled out or swapped while other disks in the array are available to the system. A Port Bypass Circuit (PBC) consists of multiple 2:1 multiplexers daisy chained along with a CDR. Each port has two modes of operation: “disk in loop” and “disk bypassed”.