AMCC has teamed with Molex to offer data transmission at 10.3Gbit/s over one metre of copper traces.
This is one of the first practical demonstrations to support the emerging IEEE 802.3ap 10G Ethernet standard.
“Demonstrating the maturity of the technology and applications will accelerate the adoption in enterprise data centres for server-to-server communication and blade server platforms,” said Gilles Garcia, director of marketing at Applied Micro Circuits Corp, which is also putting a big push behind optical transport networks (OTNs).
Herbert Endres, technology marketing director at Molex described it as a real-world demonstration of 10Gbit/s running over backplane interconnect technology.
“As the industry broadens its adoption of multi-gigabit systems, a demonstration of an error-free data transmission at 10.3Gbit/s over a one metre backplane channel provides an important assurance of practicality and robustness,” said Endres.
The demonstration features the Molex I-Trac reference backplane connected through the AMCC QT2055 10GBASE-KR PHY device.
The connector’s open pin-field design allows engineers to assign high-speed differential pairs, low-speed signals, power and ground contacts anywhere within the pin-field.
The QT2055 is a low power XAUI-to-10GBASE-KR PHY IC designed for single lane 10Gbit/s Ethernet backplane serial connectivity with a reach of up to one metre of PCB/backplane. It has integrated EDC, FEC as well as 1G/10G support.
See: 10Gbit Ethernet in the mainstream.