The new integrated circuits join a comprehensive family of repeaters and retimers that combat signal impairments caused by insertion loss, jitter, reflections, and crosstalk in high-speed enterprise servers, routers, and switches.

Texas Instruments Incorporated (Dallas, TX) (TI) (NASDAQ: TXN) has introduced 10 signal conditioners designed to drive high-speed interface standards such as 10G/40G/100G Ethernet, 10G-KR (802.3ap), InfiniBand, Fibre Channel and CPRI. The new integrated circuits (ICs) join a comprehensive family of repeaters and retimers that combat signal impairments caused by insertion loss, jitter, reflections, and crosstalk in high-speed enterprise servers, routers, and switches. Features include:

• Extended reach to exceed 50+ inches of FR-4 backplane or 20 meters of 26-AWG copper cable;
  • 36-dB input EQ and 12-dB output de-emphasis (DE).
  • Multi-tap decision feedback equalizer (DFE).
  • Clock and data recovery (CDR) with internal clock synthesis.
  • Repeaters consume 65-mW per channel; retimers with CDR consume 150-mW per channel.
• Reduceed bill of materials (BOM) cost and simplify system design:
  • Fully adaptive EQ simplifies link tuning.
  • Internal clock synthesis avoids the need for an external reference clock.
  • Built-in eye monitor and PRBS generator simplifies system debug.
  • Single power supply without the need for external RF chokes.

For more information visit www.ti.com.