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Let MindShare Bring SAS to Life for You
MindShare’s SAS Architecture course provides a comprehensive understanding of the Serial Attached SCSI interface. The course covers all aspects of the standard, primarily from a hardware perspective, and compares the usage model of SAS with other enterprise interface designs. Practical examples of the discovery process, transactions on the link, and error conditions help provide a great introduction for those new to this material. MindShare’s established background in legacy platform design, coupled with a comprehensive understanding of the latest bus technologies, provides rich insight into the SAS design and results in a superior training experience. This course will provide the kind of in-depth information, example implementations, and practical guidance that will give your team a running start on working with SAS.
MindShare Courses On SAS:
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Classroom |
Virtual Classroom |
eLearning |
Comprehensive SAS  |
3 days |
4 days |
Show Me |
All of MindShare's classroom and virtual classroom courses can be customized to fit the needs of your group.
Comprehensive SAS Course Info
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You Will Learn:
- The basics of the serial interface
- System topology considerations
- How connections are built and handled
- How the SAS infrastructure handles different protocols
- The responsibilities of each design layer
- How problems are reported and handled
Course Length: 3 Days
Who Should Attend?
Our target audience for this class is design or validation engineers working on an RTL-level, chip-level, system-level or system board-level design. Although the material is hardware oriented, software engineers can also benefit from seeing the big picture.
Course Outline:
- Background
- SCSI
- Fibre Channel (FC)
- Serial ATA (SATA)
- Introduction to SAS
- Usage Model: Comparing SAS, SATA, and FC
- Introduction to Architectural Layers
- Physical
- Phy
- Link
- Port
- Transport
- Expander Devices
- Application Layer Responsibilities
- Transport Layer Responsibilities
- SSP and Error Handling
- STP
- SMP
- Port Layer Responsibilities
- Call Center Routing Model
- Link Layer Responsibilities
- Primitives
- Serial Support
- Connections
- Arbitration
- ACK/NAK Protocol
- Flow Control
- Phy Layer Responsibilities
- Encoding, OOB, Initialization, Resets
- Physical Layer Responsibilities
- Differential signaling
- Inter-Symbol Interference and Compensation
- Enclosure Services Management
Recommended Prerequisites:
A basic understanding of SCSI is recommended but not required.
Training Materials:
MindShare’s SAS Storage Architecture textbook
Author: Mike Jackson
Publisher: MindShare Press
Available through the MindShare Store and major bookstore outlets.
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