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Communications ICs (Wired)
News Release from: IDT | Subject: Functional interconnect chips
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 06 March 2008
Interconnect chips bridge adjacent
standards
FIC devices are the first optimised to allow the common CPRI standard to span the interface between the wireless radio card and a Serial RapidIO-enabled baseband processing system.
Integrated Device Technology has a new family of common public radio interface (CPRI)-based functional interconnect chip (FIC) devices that bridge adjacent standards within the wireless infrastructure These FIC devices are the first optimised to allow the common CPRI standard to span the interface between the wireless radio card and a Serial RapidIO-enabled baseband processing system
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 12 Apr 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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With the IDT family of FICs, system architects are able to offload the translation and connection tasks from the current alternatives - typically an ASIC or FPGA - thus reducing development time and risk whilst providing significant cost savings.
The IDT family consists of two devices: a CPRI to serial RapidIO device for baseband processing systems and a CPRI to TDM (time-division multiplexing) interface device for radio card applications.
The two devices together provide a complete, off-the-shelf, end-to-end CPRI basestation solution enabling faster time to market for both initial system development and performance enhancements.
Each device has three independent CPRI ports that are compliant to the CPRI 2.1 specification, providing a wide range of popular distributed basestation architectures including chain, tree and mesh topologies.
The 80HFC1000 CPRI-to-RapidIO device also offers four RapidIO lanes (RapidIO v 1.3 compliant) and is configurable as 1x or 4x port at up to 3.25Gbaud performance per lane.
The 80HFC1001 CPRI-to-TDM FIC offers a 64bit TDM interface that supports a 150MHz clock rate along with control pins that provide seamless connection to industry standard radio card components.
Both devices will be available in RoHS-compliant 324-pin BGA packages.
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