The DP8496 7 is a highly integrated high-performance CMOS SCSI disk data controller It is designed for use inside intelligent hard disk drives that utilize the Small Computer System Interface (SCSI) standard It can also be used in ESDI SMD and ST506 bridging controller applications The DP8496 7 includes most of the data path functions needed to implement a complete hard disk controller It includes a full featured SCSI Bus Controller Buffer Memory Interface with pipelined pointers fast Disk Data Controller and a Processor Interface