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News Release from: Altera Europe | Subject: Stratix II GX
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 24 January 2008
FPGAs support SFI-5 optical comms
standard
The SFI-5 specification is a chip-to-chip standard that ensures interoperability between forward-error correction and the framer, as well as from industry-leading optical transponder devices.
Altera is providing Serdes Framer Interface Level 5 (SFI-5) standard support in its Stratix II GX FPGAs with embedded transceivers, providing a 40 to 50Gbit/s interface for high-performance optical communications applications The SFI-5 specification is a chip-to-chip standard that ensures interoperability between forward-error correction (FEC) and the framer, as well as from industry-leading optical transponder devices
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 25 Oct 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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Hardware tested to verify compliance to the SFI-5 standard, Stratix II GX FPGAs feature up to 20 high-speed serial transceiver channels that can operate at rates between 600Mbit/s and 6.375Gbit/s, easily satisfying SFI-5 interface requirements.
The SFI-5 Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) specification was developed to provide an interface between the network processing devices and the optical transponder to enable higher bandwidths.
The SFI-5 standard addresses network transport formats including OC-768, STM256, and OTN OTU-3.
In addition to supporting the SFI-5 standard, Altera Stratix II GX FPGAs are designed to deliver an extensive set of optical and electrical protocols with low power and industry-leading signal integrity, making them an ideal solution for use in all high-speed designs.
"The SFI-5 standard, as implemented in our Stratix II GX FPGAs, is being adopted rapidly by high-performance optical communications systems", says David Greenfield, Senior Director of Product Marketing, High-End Products, at Altera Corporation.
"For designers developing next-generation wireline communications applications, our Stratix II GX FPGAs easily exceed the demanding SFI-5 signal integrity and skew requirements with ample margin".
Production-qualified Stratix II GX FPGAs, with support for the SFI-5 protocol, are available now.
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