To meet the demand for data buffering at 100G and beyond, Avago leverages its industry-leading 28nm CMOS SerDes technology with unique Decision Feedback Equalization (DFE) architecture to create the Vortex Signal Integrity™ family.
Featuring low power, jitter, and crosstalk, the AVSP-8801 is an 8-channel unidirectional retimer IC that operates at any speed from 1 to 28 Gbps in a protocol-agnostic fashion. With this device, Avago offers data center, enterprise and OTN switch and router manufacturers a best-in-class retimer solution for network backplane and portside applications.
The AVSP-8801 features built-in test and channel analysis capabilities such as pattern generation, eye capture, and error detection. The user can control the device via MDIO, I2C, or JTAG, and the Avago-provided API facilitates seamless software integration.
| Broadcom Inc. | |
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| Product Category | Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASIC) |
| Product Number | AVSP-8801 |
| Product Name | Unidirectional 8x28G Retimer IC |