HIPPI 800 and 1600 Mbit/s Physical Layer
(HIPPI-PH)

Status as of February 4, 1999 -

ANSI X3.183-1991 (HIPPI-PH) was reaffirmed in 1996 without any changes. The Technical Editor responsibilities passed from Don Tolmie to Roger Ronald.

HIPPI-PH Rev 8.1 has been an approved ANSI standard since 1991. Rev 8.2 is a maintenance copy that includes some editorial changes that we considered when we chose to reaffirm the original version without changes. At the April 1996 meeting, it was voted to reaffirm HIPPI-PH without change. Additional editorial changes had been suggested by Ken Powell of Silicon Graphics to clarify some issues. It was felt that it would be better to place these clarifications in a different document, e.g., a Technical Report.

Document title -

High-Performance Parallel Interface - Mechanical, Electrical, and Signalling Protocol Specification (HIPPI-PH)

The described High-Performance Parallel Interface (HIPPI-PH) is intended as the physical layer of an efficient simplex high-performance point-to-point interface for transmitting digital data at peak data rates of 800 or 1600 Mbit/s between data-processing equipment using multiple twisted-pair copper cabling at distances up to 25 m.

Technical Editor -

Roger Ronald - Power Micro Research rronald@pmr.com
(Don Tolmie, Los Alamos National Laboratory (before retirement), was the original Technical Editor)

ANSI X3.183-1991 (R1996), Information Systems - High-Performance Parallel Interface - Mechanical, Electrical, and Signalling Protocol Specification (HIPPI-PH)

ISO/IEC 11518-1:1995, Information Systems - High-Performance Parallel Interface - Part 1: Mechanical, Electrical, and Signalling Protocol Specification (HIPPI-PH)

NCITS Project Number - 667-M (M = Maintenance)