To meet the demand for data buffering at 100 G and beyond, Avago Technologies its industry-leading 28 nm CMOS SerDes technology with unique Decision Feedback Equalization (DFE) architecture to create the Vortex Signal Integrity™ family.
Featuring low power, jitter, and crosstalk, the AVSP-8801 is an 8-channel unidirectional retimer IC that operates at any speed from 1 to 28 Gbps in a protocol-agnostic fashion. With this device, Avago offers data center, enterprise and OTN switch and router manufacturers a best-in-class retimer solution for network backplane and portside applications.
The AVSP-8801 features built-in test and channel analysis capabilities such as pattern generation, eye capture, and error detection. The user can control the device via MDIO, I2C, or JTAG, and the Avago-provided API facilitates seamless software integration.
Features
- 8-channel retimer from 1 to 28 Gbps
- Up to 16 retimers per I2C bus
- Protocol agnostic supporting various interconnect interfaces:
- Long reach backplane interface per CEI-25G-LR
- Chip-to-chip and chip-to-module interfaces per CEI-28G-SR and VSR
- MDIO interface per IEEE 802.3-2012 Clause 45
- Long reach performance withstanding up to 32 dB of channel loss at 25 Gbps per channel
- Bit Error Rate (BER) of 10-17
- Programmable Tx/Rx equalization of all SerDes interfaces
- Comprehensive diagnostics software: pattern generator (PRBS and user defined), error detector, eye monitor, temperature sensor, and input/output polarity swapping
- Self-loading of firmware and initialization settings from EEPROM
- Integrated API facilitating seamless software integration
- 1 V and 2.5 V power supply (0.9 V optional)
- 14×14 mm package with 1mm pitch (13×13 BGA)
Applications
- Data Center Switching
- Enterprise Switching
- Optical Transport Networking (OTN)
- Routers
