A chipset for gigabit rate data communication [using optical fibres]

Author

Walker, Richard C. ; Hornak, T. ; Yen, Chu-Sun ; Springer, Kent

Author_Institution

Hewlett-Packard Lab., Palo Alto, CA, USA

fYear

1989

fDate

18-19 Sep 1989

Firstpage

288

Lastpage

290

Abstract

A gigabit-rate data link consisting of four custom silicon bipolar chips for transmitting parallel data between elements of a distributed computer system is discussed. A transmission rate of 16 bits in parallel at 50 MHz or with encoding overhead, a serial rate of 1 Gb/s is demonstrated. The link utilizes an encoding scheme that is bandwidth efficient. Unlike other links, the phase/frequency-locked loop also provides frame synchronization and requires no trimming for data retiming, either in production or later

Keywords

application specific integrated circuits; bipolar integrated circuits; data communication equipment; encoding; optical communication equipment; optical fibres; phase-locked loops; 1 Gbit/s; 16 bits; Si; bipolar chips; custom circuits; data retiming; distributed computer system; encoding overhead; encoding scheme; frame synchronization; gigabit rate data communication; parallel data; phase/frequency-locked loop; transmission rate; Bandwidth; Clocks; Data communication; Decoding; Encoding; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber devices; Optical fibers; Phase locked loops; Silicon;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Bipolar Circuits and Technology Meeting, 1989., Proceedings of the 1989

Conference_Location

Minneapolis, MN

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/BIPOL.1989.69510

Filename

69510