HIPPI 800 and 1600 Serial Specification
(HIPPI-Serial)

ISO/IEC 11518-9:199x is the ISO version.

Status as of February 4, 1999 -

HIPPI-Serial Rev 2.6 has been approved as American National Standard X3.300-1997. The published document has the same technical content as HIPPI-Serial Rev 2.7. The Technical Editor responsibilities passed from Don Tolmie to Roger Ronald.

An ISO version is being processed in the ISO Fast Track procedure as a draft International Standard (DIS).

HIPPI-Serial is based on the original Serial-HIPPI document produced by an ad-hoc group outside the standards arena. Marty Halvorson of DEC chaired the ad-hoc group, and Bill McFarland of Hewlett-Packard was the Technical Editor. Conformant products have been out for several years, and HIPPI-Serial is an attempt to polish up the specification, legitimize existing products, and bring all of the HIPPI specifications under one umbrella.

Document Title -

High-Performance Parallel Interface - Serial Specification (HIPPI-Serial)

Abstract -

This standard specifies a physical-level interface for transmitting digital data at 800 Mbit/s or 1600 Mbit/s serially over fiber-optic cables across distances of up to 10 km. The signalling sequences and protocol used are compatible with HIPPI-PH, ANSI X3.183-1991, which is limited to 25 m distances. HIPPI-Serial may be integrated as a host's native interface, or used as an external extender for HIPPI-PH ports.

Technical Editor -

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

ANSI X3.300-1997, Information Technology - High-Performance Parallel Interface - Serial Specification (HIPPI-Serial)

ISO/IEC 11518-9:199x, Information Technology - High-Performance Parallel Interface - Part 9: Serial Specification (HIPPI-Serial)

NCITS Project Number - 1117-M (M = Maintenance)