(Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20020822/XLNXLOGO )As outlined in the recently announced "Serial Tsunami" initiative to
accelerate and support the broad industry adoption of high-speed serial I/O,
the SONET solution is one of many Xilinx serial solutions designed to drive
down system costs and keep pace with current and future bandwidth
requirements.
"SONET is one of the most widely used connectivity standard in the
communications industry; used not only to move data and voice between cities,
but also inside optical networking equipment," said Per Holmberg, director of
Programmable Systems Marketing at Xilinx. "By providing a flexible,
ready-to-use design solution, built on the industry's only platform FPGA with
proven 3.125 Gbps serial transceivers, immersed Power PC processors and
high-density, high performance FPGA fabric, SONET designers can now benefit
from the low-cost and low-risk advantages of programmable systems."
The Xilinx SONET solution is a set of three application notes and
reference designs that can be used together or separately to create complete
SONET transmitter and receiver sets with bandwidth of 2.48 Gbps (OC-48) per
RocketIO(TM) transceiver or more with multiple channel-bonded RocketIO
transceivers. The Virtex-II Pro FPGA provides up to twenty-four RocketIO
transceivers and there is no limit on the number that can be channel bonded.
In addition, the flexibility of the Virtex-II Pro fabric and the RocketIO
transceiver enables the designers to create solutions that are appropriate for
their systems.
Availability
The SONET reference designs will be available this month free of charge on
the Xilinx Connectivity Central website at www.xilinx.com/connectivity.
About Serial Tsunami
The Xilinx Serial Tsunami initiative, announced October 21, 2002 is
designed to accelerate the industry move from parallel to serial I/O
technology by delivering next generation connectivity solutions that meet
bandwidth requirements from 3.125 Gbps today to 10 Gbps and beyond. For
complete information about the Serial Tsunami initiative, visit
www.xilinx.com/connectivity.
About Xilinx
Xilinx is the worldwide leader in complete programmable logic solutions.
For more information, visit www.xilinx.com.
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