Although Ethernet is known as a networking and system-to-system protocol, it has been adapted to other applications, including the backplane. Ethernet is a popular protocol choice in adaptive SoCs and FPGAs because of its flexibility, reliability, and performance.
Whether you are designing low-cost 10/100/1000 Mb/s Ethernet applications with cost-optimized devices or 800G Ethernet applications with Versal™ adaptive SoCs, AMD has an Ethernet solution for you.
Versal adaptive SoCs incorporate an integrated dynamically switchable 10G, 25G, 40G, 50G, and 100G Multirate Ethernet Subsystem (MRMAC) and a 100G, 200G, and 400G channelized Multirate Ethernet Subsystem (DCMAC). These two IP blocks also support IEEE and consortium FECs for PAM-4 and NRZ applications as well 1588 hardware timestamping. In addition, these blocks allow for configurations such as FEC only, PCS only, and MAC only modes. Because the hard IP blocks are so flexible, our 800G Ethernet solution leverages two DCMACs, enabling significant LUT savings and lower power compared to pure soft solutions.
*Compared to pure soft solutions