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Analogue and Mixed Signal ICs
News Release from: Quellan | Subject: NX2400
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 12 December 2005
Noise canceller handles four wideband
lines
The NX2400 is billed as the system interconnect industry's first quad wideband noise canceller.
New from Quellan, the NX2400 is billed as the system interconnect industry's first quad wideband noise canceller The NX2400 is a VLSI analogue device that integrates four wideband adaptive equalisers and eight of Quellan's channel emulators, each with fully adaptive phase, amplitude and frequency control
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 8 Feb 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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Quellan's NX2400 integrates the complexity of over 4000 discreet analogue components and operates at 5Gbit/s.
This system level analogue device dynamically cancels eight aggressors from four victims, in less than a square inch of board area - resulting in up to a 400% improvement in channel throughput and as much as eight orders of magnitude in channel bit error rate improvement.
The NX2400's channel emulators adaptively synthesise signal interference from multiple "aggressors" and apply a correction signal to the "victim" channel.
This signal interference is caused by coupled noise from a nearby connector, trace or cable.
When the NX2400 is placed between the connector and the transceiver, it adaptively counters unwanted signal coupling induced by local transmitters (aggressors) to a neighboring receiver (victim).
"The NX2400 provides OEMs unsurpassed signal integrity and network performance - all without changing the interconnect infrastructure", said Tony Stelliga, Quellan's President and CEO.
"This greatly reduces both capital equipment cost and development cost, while preventing unwanted network downtime required to install new interconnects".
The NX2400 quad canceller interfaces seamlessly to any quad serdes device.
Each equaliser within the NX2400 is fully adaptive to ensure the highest performance across a wide range of applications in telecom/enterprise, network storage, and computing markets.
The NX2400 is available in a 12 x 12mm 169-pin TFBGA package and is fabricated in a 0.13um CMOS process.
The NX2400 operates from a single 1.2/2.5V voltage supply over the 0C to +70C temperature range.
Prices start at $59.00 in 5000-piece quantities.
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