A design of fibre channel node with PCI interface

Fibre Channel (FC) has been well applied in storage network and avionics environments. It is being implemented as one kind of avionics communication architecture for a variety of next generation aircrafts. However, a challenge engineers have to face is how to realize the complicated FC protocols in a feasible way. So, we propose a design of FC node. It adopts a FPGA module with PCI interface and a PowerPC module. In this way, it can achieve the mapping from the FC protocols to the engineering application. We have carried out some experiments to validate the data transfer rate of 1.0625Gbps and 2.125Gbps. The experimental results show that the proposed design has good performance at high-speed data transmission with the FC protocols, and flexible scalability.