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Product category: Programmable Logic Devices
News Release from: Altera Europe | Subject: Stratix II GX
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 24 January 2008
FPGAs support SFI-5 optical comms
standard
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The SFI-5 specification is a chip-to-chip standard that ensures interoperability between forward-error correction and the framer, as well as from industry-leading optical transponder devices.
Altera is providing Serdes Framer Interface Level 5 (SFI-5) standard support in its Stratix II GX FPGAs with embedded transceivers, providing a 40 to 50Gbit/s interface for high-performance optical communications applications The SFI-5 specification is a chip-to-chip standard that ensures interoperability between forward-error correction (FEC) and the framer, as well as from industry-leading optical transponder devices