Altera's 28nm transceiver test chip allows for the assessment of the transceiver design's performance using TSMC's advanced 28nm high-performance (HP) process. The test chip results enable Altera to develop and implement techniques for optimizing power consumption, jitter, and connectivity in order to produce the Stratix® V FPGAs that incorporate 28 Gbps transceivers. Altera's Stratix V FPGAs are ideally suited to serve markets requiring very high performance with fixed cost and power consumption constraints, such as military communications, optical transmission networks, and emerging test equipment systems. Currently, Altera is the only company supplying production-scale FPGAs with 11.3 Gbps transceivers, and becoming the first FPGA vendor to reach 25 Gbps further solidifies its leadership in transceiver technology.
“Altera’s achievements with 28nm transceiver technology set a very high bar for the rest of the integrated circuit industry, which is trying to quickly support the next generation of high-density, low-power 4x25 Gbps optical modules,” said Christian Urricariet, marketing director for high-speed optics at Finisar. “Together, Altera and Finisar are at the forefront of bringing high-bandwidth, low-cost optical communications to market that will inevitably change the design and architecture of data centers.”.
“The industry’s adoption of 28 Gbps transceivers allows next-generation broadband networks to meet the demand for higher bandwidth while also meeting constraints on size, cost, and power consumption,” said Luanne Schirrmeister, director of product marketing at Altera Corporation.
