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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
XILINX ROCKETPHY DEMONSTRATES 10 Gbps INTEROPERABILITY
AT SUPERCOMM
RocketPHY family of 10 Gbps physical layer transceivers
demonstrated interoperable with several leading XFP and 10 Gbps
SERDES vendors
SAN JOSE, Calif., June 17, 2003 - Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX),
today announced the successful demonstration of interoperability
between its RocketPHY™ family of 10 Gbps physical layer transceivers
and several leading XFP (10G Small Form-Factor Pluggable) optical
transceivers and 10 Gbps SERDES vendors. The successful demonstration
occurred at the annual SUPERCOMM 2003 conference held June 3-5 in
Atlanta.
The interoperability event was sponsored and organized by the Optical
Internetworking Forum (OIF) as part of the Common Electrical Interface
11G+ short reach (CEI 11G+ SR) feasibility demonstration. Xilinx
was one of five 10 Gbps SERDES vendors and three XFP optical transceiver
vendors to participate in the CEI 11G+ short reach feasibility demonstration.
Over a dozen OIF member companies participated in the PLL interoperability
demonstrations at SUPERCOMM.
"The successful demonstration of interoperability at SUPERCOMM
further illustrates the ability of RocketPHY transceivers to support
emerging serial standards and XFP applications," said Robert
Bielby, senior director of Strategic Solutions Marketing at Xilinx.
"The rapid adoption of RocketPHY further defines Xilinx's leadership
in delivering 10 Gbps serial connectivity solutions to the masses."
Recognizing the industry's need to support higher speed electrical
signaling, the OIF Physical and Link Layer (PLL) Working Group has
begun a new project called the Common Electrical Interface to define
the electrical specifications for 4.976 to 6+ Gigabit and 9.95 to
11+ Gigabit serial signaling. Each of these rates will be defined
to support both short reach ("SR": 0 to 200 mm or 8 inches
of printed circuit board trace with up to one connector) and long
reach ("LR": 0 to 1 meter or 39 inches of printed circuit
board trace with up to two connectors) applications.
Xilinx participated in two separate CEI 11G+ SR demonstrations at
SUPERCOMM, one operating at the SONET OC-192/SDH STM-64 data rate
of 9.9532Gbps, and the other at 10 Gigabit Ethernet data rate of
10.3125 Gbps. For each demo, Xilinx used its RocketPHY XFP host
board, which directly interfaces the RocketPHY XGC1120 device to
a 30-pin XFP connector and cage assembly. A daisy chain of single
mode fiber was used to link the participating host boards and 1310
nm XFP modules were used to transport the PRBS data for both demonstrations.
About RocketPHY
The Xilinx RocketPHY family of 10Gbps physical layer transceivers
are fully integrated single chip CMOS SerDes devices designed for
line side optical interface applications to support the MAN, WAN,
LAN and SAN markets. The family of serial to 16-bit transceivers
supports operation from 9.9532 - 10.709 Gbps and meet SONET OC-192/SDH
STM-64, FEC (OTN G.709), 10 Gigabit Ethernet, and emerging 10 Gigabit
Fibre Channel standards. Xilinx RocketPHY supports optical transponder
modules such as 300-pin Multi Source Agreement (MSA) as well as
10 Gbps small form-factor pluggable (XFP) applications.
The RocketPHY family consists of the XGC1120-RocketPHY 10G Ultra
MSA which supports SONET OC-192, SDH STM-64, OTN G.709, 10Gigabit
Ethernet and 10Gigabit Fibre Channel applications; the XGC1121-RocketPHY
10G SONET/SDH which supports SONET OC-192 and SDH-STM-64 applications;
and the XGC1320-RocketPHY 10GE/10GFC which supports 10Gigabit Ethernet
and 10 Gigabit Fibre Channel applications. RocketPHY evaluation
kits are available for purchase by qualified customers. For complete
information about the RocketPHY family of transceivers, visit www.xilinx.com/rocketphy.
A variety of solutions and applications based upon the RocketPHY
and Virtex-II ProX families, including a new segment on optical
modules, can be found on the Xilinx eSP web portal at www.xilinx.com/esp/.
About Xilinx
Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) is the worldwide leader of programmable
logic solutions. Additional information about Xilinx is available
at www.xilinx.com.
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