FPGAs meet OIF's stringent 6Gbit/s specifications

The Stratix II GX FPGA meet (OIF) specifications for 6Gbit/s Long Reach and Short Reach communication

Altera Corporation has successfully completed characterisation of its Stratix II GX FPGA family for the Optical Internetworking Forum's (OIF's) Common Electrical Interface 6Gbit/s Long Reach and Short Reach (CEI-6G-LR/SR) specifications.

Meeting this rigorous protocol demonstrates the robustness of the Stratix II GX transceivers and their ability to deliver 127 Gbit/s of aggregate bandwidth for high-speed chip-to-chip and backplane applications.

The CEI-6G specification provides a framework of electrical standards allowing for interoperability of devices and systems.

Stratix II GX FPGAs are said to be the industry's first products to support the rigorous standard in the full CEI specification range of 4.9 to 6.0Gbit/s and provide design margin to stringent jitter specifications, even when multiple lanes are active.

In addition to CEI-6G, Altera's Stratix II GX FPGAs provide performance margin for, and have demonstrated compliance with, the OC48/STM16, OC12/STM4, PCI Express, Gigabit Ethernet, XAUI and Fibre Channel standards.

"Altera's high-performance transceiver technology enables the Stratix II GX family to be the industry's first FPGA to comply with the stringent requirements of the CEI-6G specifications".

"We are unique in our capability to demonstrate performance margin in a number of stringent protocols, including CEI-6G, while providing FPGAs with the lowest-power and highest-density transceivers in production today", says David Greenfield, Senior Director of Product Marketing for high-end FPGAs at Altera.

"Customers can design with confidence for 6Gbit/s performance with the robust performance margins we are seeing in Stratix II GX production silicon".

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