To meet the demand for data buffering at 100 G and beyond, Avago leverages its industry-leading 28 nm CMOS SerDes technology with its unique Decision Feedback Equalization (DFE) architecture to create the Vortex Signal Integrity™ family.
Featuring low power, jitter, and crosstalk, the AVSP-4412 is a full duplex 4-channel 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-4412 features built-in test and channel analysis capabilities such as pattern generation, eye capture, and error detection. A user can control the device via MDIO, I2C, or JTAG, and the Avago-provided API facilitates seamless software integration. Furthermore, the AVSP-4412 includes an embedded backchannel allowing for automatic link training such that the Rx and Tx of each channel can be optimized without simulation or system validation to determine the best EQ settings.
Features
- Full-duplex 4-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
- KR backchannel per IEEE 802.3 Clause 72
- 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 (0.9V optional)
- 12×12mm package with 1mm pitch (11×11 BGA)
Applications
- Data Center Switching
- Enterprise Switching
- Optical Transport Networking (OTN)
- Routers
