Fabless semiconductor company Quake Technologies Inc. said it is now sampling the QT2020, Quake's flagship single-chip 10 Gigabit Ethernet transceiver integrated circuit (IC).
The QT2020 is a fully integrated, monolithic transceiver designed for use in 10 Gb/s IEEE 802.3ae local-area network (LAN) and metropolitan-area network (MAN) applications. To achieve optimal performance and lower power consumption, the main physical (PHY) layer functions of a receiver and transmitter have been combined on-chip, as have clock generation, multiple loopbackfeatures, and the generation and checking of pseudo-random binary sequence (PRBS) test patterns on both the attachment unit interface standard (XAUI) and 10 Gbps sides.
With features such as programmable XAUI pre-emphasis and adjustable XAUI and 10 Gbps side output levels, the QT2020 delivers the performance flexibility necessary to optimize component selection for module design, company officials said. No longer constrained to choosing expensive components to achieve their system specifications, module manufacturers can now choose from a wider variety of lower cost components without sacrificing system performance or reliability. The jitter tolerance of the QT2020 means that the total module jitter budget can be more flexibly allocated to other devices.
Samples of the QT2020 are currently available priced at $500 each for quantities of 1,000. Full production of the QT2020 is planned for the third calendar quarter of 2002.
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