Cypress Samples Single-Chip OC-48 Silicon Germanium SERDES That Uses Less Than Half the Power and Board Space of Competitive 16-Bit Devices.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers New Chip Targets OC-48/STM-16 Switches, Routers, DWDM (Dense WDM) The term given to wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) when significantly more channels were being added. Since WDM is increasingly more "dense" all the time, both terms are used synonymously. See WDM. DWDM - wavelength division multiplexing Systems and Add/Drop Multiplexers; Combines With Cypress Framer to Provide Transport Solution For Any Protocol Over SONET/SDH Cypress Semiconductor Corporation (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :CY) announced production samples of its OC-48/STM-16 SONET/SDH SERDES See serializer/deserializer. , the first device fabricated in Cypress's internally developed Silicon Germanium (SiGe) process. The CYS25G0102DX integrates serializer, deserializer, clock and data recovery, clock synthesis, and a limiting amplifier into a single chip, allowing one device to take the place of to be substituted for. - Berkeley. See also: Place two or more devices in many existing designs. This device consumes less than half the power (0.6W) and occupies less than half the board space (11 mm x 11 mm) of competing 16-bit solutions. The CYS25G0102DX provides full Bellcore and ITU (International Telecommunication Union, Geneva, Switzerland, www.itu.ch) A telecommunications standards body that is under the auspices of the United Nations. Comprising more than 185 member countries, the ITU sets standards for global telecom networks. compliance, multiple loop-back and loop-through modes, and a flexible 16-bit interface. These features, coupled with low power and a small package, simplify system design. Design activity at 2.5 Gbps continues to be robust as market conditions in the data and telecommunications industry are extending the sweet spot for OC-48/STM-16 systems. Enterprises and service providers seeking to maximize existing OC-48/STM-16 infrastructure are increasingly looking to efficiently transport Gigabit Ethernet and storage protocols over OC-48/STM-16 rings. Cypress's OC-48/STM-16 SERDES seamlessly interfaces to Cypress's POSIC POSIC Partially-Connected Ordered Successive-Interference Cancellation 2GVC GVC Grand View College (Des Moines, IA) GVC Gruppo Volontariato Civile GVC Global Value Chain GVC Gastrovascular Cavity GVC Global Visibility Capability GVC Goddard Voice Control virtual concatenation framer making transmission of multiple protocols over SONET/SDH seamless. The CYS25G0102DX is also ideal for DWDM systems where low power is essential due to high port density. "By moving into Cypress's world-class SiGe process, we were able to build the best OC-48 SERDES available anywhere, bar none," said Jack Berg, Cypress's Datacom Managing Director. "Cypress's first-generation 0.21-micron BiCMOS Silicon Germanium process supports an cut off frequencies of higher than 110 GHz, easily bringing 40 Gbps designs within our grasp. For 10 Gbps and 2.5Gbps designs, we have the flexibility to choose in-house SiGe when the process gives us a performance or time to market advantage." "Developing in-house SiGe capability is an important milestone in maintaining state-of-the-art capabilities as a designer and manufacturer of high-end communications semiconductors," said Christopher Seams, Cypress's Executive Vice President of Technology Development and Manufacturing. "In addition to our full line of communication devices, our SiGe process will allow us to extend our leadership in high-frequency timing and radio frequency products." About Silicon Germanium Silicon Germanium is a performance enhancement to standard Complimentary Metal Oxide Semiconductor See MOS. (electronics) Metal Oxide Semiconductor - (MOS) The three materials used to form a gate in the most common kind of Field Effect Transistor - a MOSFET. (CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) Pronounced "c-moss." The most widely used integrated circuit design. It is found in almost every electronic product from handheld devices to mainframes. ) and BiPolar CMOS (BiCMOS) processes. Compared to standard BiCMOS technology, Cypress's .21(micron)m SiGe process improves cutoff frequencies (or F(T -) a measure of transistor switching speed) from 25 GHz to 110 GHz. By precisely depositing silicon germanium (SiGe) on standard silicon (Si) wafers, manufacturers are able to achieve the performance characteristics of gallium arsenide and other III-V compound technologies at costs comparable to CMOS technologies. Since SiGe devices can be fabricated on CMOS manufacturing lines, Cypress is able to transition existing fabs to production of SiGe wafers. Product Availability Production samples of CYS25G0102DX are available now in a 120-pin TQFP See QFP. . A 100-ball BGA (Ball Grid Array) A popular surface mount chip package that uses a grid of solder balls as its connectors. Available in plastic and ceramic varieties, BGA is noted for its compact size, high lead count and low inductance, which allows lower voltages to be used. version will be available in Q4. Photo For a high-resolution photo of CYS25G0102DX, go to http://www.cypress.com/pub/cys25G0102DX.jpg. About Cypress Cypress Semiconductor is "Driving the Communications Revolution"(TM) with high-performance integrated circuits for network infrastructure and access equipment. Leveraging its process and system-level expertise, the company designs and manufactures solutions targeted across wireless and wireline communications. Cypress supports a wide range of industry standards, such as SONET (OC-48, OC-192 and OC-768), Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), InfiniBand(TM) and Gigabit Ethernet. The company's communications product lines include programmable high-speed physical layer devices (PHYs), wirespeed network search engines (NSEs) and network coprocessors (NCPs), and datapath switching elements (DSEs). Cypress is also the industry's leader in communications timing solutions, networking-optimized communications memories and personal connectivity solutions, such as USB USB in full Universal Serial Bus Type of serial bus that allows peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, digitizers, data gloves, etc.) to be easily connected to a computer. and Bluetooth. Cypress is a leader in pure optical and optoelectronic technologies designed to push network transmissions to higher performance levels and to satisfy the increasing demand for network bandwidth. With a focus on emerging communications applications, Cypress aims to become the preferred silicon supplier for network infrastructure solutions and for every network data stream to pass through at least one Cypress IC. Cypress employs 4,000 people worldwide. Its shares are listed on the New York Stock Exchange New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) World's largest marketplace for securities. The exchange began as an informal meeting of 24 men in 1792 on what is now Wall Street in New York City. under the symbol CY. More information about Cypress is accessible on the Web at www.cypress.com. "Safe Harbor Safe Harbor 1. A legal provision to reduce or eliminate liability as long as good faith is demonstrated. 2. A form of shark repellent implemented by a target company acquiring a business that is so poorly regulated that the target itself is less attractive. 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