Molex and AMCC form partnership for Electronica

Molex and Applied Micro Circuits Corporation (AMCC) will join forces at Electronica 2008 to demonstrate a data transmission signal at 10.3 Gbps over one metre of copper backplane traces.

The signal will be transmitted from an AMCC QT2225 dual 10Gbase-KR PHY IC and sent across the 1M copper channel in a Molex GbX I-Trac backplane.

This will make an end-to-end 10 Gbps server-to-backplane-to-server with streaming video as the high-bandwidth application.

The Molex GbX I-Trac system offers superior impedance control, lower cross-talk and higher overall bandwidth.

With its open pin-field design, the system gives engineers the flexibility to assign high-speed differential pairs, low-speed signals and power and ground contacts anywhere in the pin-field.

The QT2225 is a low power dual port Xaui-to-10Gbase-KR PHY IC designed for transmission of serial 10 Gbps Ethernet traffic over one metre of PCB/backplane.

It includes integrated IEEE 802.3ap FEC with bypass and can operate in 10Gbase-KR and 1000Base-KX modes.

Gilles Garcia, director of marketing at AMCC, said: 'We can offer a capacity increase of four to 10 channels per port to customers moving to 10 Gbps Ethernet for backplane connectivity.

'The maturity of this technology and applications will accelerate the adoption in enterprise data centres for server-to-server communication and blade server platforms.'.

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