PX6524
4 x 10 Gb/s TIA/LA Receiver
Product Brief
April 2006
Description
The growing use of the Internet has created
increasingly higher demand for multi-Gb/s I/O
performance. The demand for 100+ Gb/s WAN
bandwidth fuels the growth of short-reach 40
Gb/s infrastructures within high-end telco and
datacom routers, switches, servers and other
proprietary chassis-to-chassis links. The Zarlink
PX6524 10 Gb/s TIA/LA Receiver is a four-
channel TIA/LA optical receiver designed for
various 4x10 Gb/s parallel optics and CWDM
PMD applications. It consists of a DC-coupled
transimpedance amplifier and an AC-coupled
differential limiting amplifier.
Features
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4-channel integrated transimpedance and liming
amplifier operates up to 10.7 Gb/s
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20 uAPP receiver sensitivity for 10-12 BER
Single +3.3V supply dissipating 160 mW per
channel
The transimpedance amplifier achieves a nominal
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Individual channel signal detect compares input
signal strength (OMA) with adjustable threshold
8
GHz bandwidth over
a wide range of
photodiode input capacitance. Excellent channel-
to-channel isolation ensures data integrity at the
receiver sensitivity limits. A global signal detect
circuit provides the photodiode reverse bias
voltage supply and senses average photocurrent
supplied to the photodiode array.
Global signal detect compares quiescent
photocurrent with adjustable threshold
Squelch automatically disables output when
input signal strength falls below programmable
threshold
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Serial digital interface for controlling channel
enable and signal detect features
The transimpedance amplifier is AC-coupled
internally to
a
high-gain, high-bandwidth
Reconfigurable I/O provides access to serial
digital interface and dedicated channel signal
detect outputs
differential limiting amplifier.
The limiting
amplifier provides a differential back-terminated
CML output that can be used to drive 10 Gb/s per
channel transceivers or other CML compatible
clock and data recovery circuits. The limiting
amplifier features an adjustable signal detect
circuit that senses optical modulation amplitude
(OMA) to provide a received signal indication for
each channel.
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250-micron channel pitch matches optical ribbon
fiber and photodiode arrays
Applications
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4-lane 10GbE, 10GFC, 8GFC, and OC-192 VSR
parallel optical modules
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Proprietary OC-768 parallel optics and CWDM
Proprietary 4-lane intra-system parallel optics
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