Mindspeed's New SkyRail Transceiver Enables Equipment Manufacturers to Protect Backplane Investments by Seamlessly Upgrading Existing Systems to OC-48 and OC-192.Business Editors & High-Tech Writers NEWPORT BEACH Newport Beach, residential and resort city (1990 pop. 66,643), Orange co., S Calif., on Newport Bay and the Pacific Ocean; inc. 1906. It is a popular seaside resort and yachting center. Manufactures include electrical and medical equipment, computers, boats, and adhesives. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 24, 2002 Octal A numbering system that uses eight digits. It is used as a shorthand method for representing binary characters that use six-bits. Each three bits (half a character) is converted into a single octal digit. Okta is Greek for 8. SkyRail(TM) SerDes is Industry's First Transceiver to Offer an Adaptive High-Speed Interface Between LVDS (Low Voltage Differential Signaling) A transmission method for sending digital information. LVDS sends data over data high and data low lines rather than data and ground. and CML 1. CML - A query language. ["Towards a Knowledge Description Language", A. Borgida et al, in On Knowledge Base Management Systems, J. Mylopoulos et al eds, Springer 1986]. 2. CML - Concurrent ML. and to Operate at Both 622Mbps and 2.488Gbps Mindspeed Technologies(TM), the Internet infrastructure business of Conexant Systems Inc. (Nasdaq:CNXT), today introduced the industry's first 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. octal serializer/deserializer (SerDes) transceiver that enables networking equipment manufacturers to offer their customers seamless system upgrades from OC-12 to OC-48 and OC-192 speeds. The M27218 Octal SkyRail is the only transceiver that allows manufacturers to protect expensive investments in existing backplanes and port cards. It offers an adaptive high-speed interface between low-voltage differential signaling Low-voltage differential signaling, or LVDS, is an electrical signaling system that can run at very high speeds over cheap, twisted-pair copper cables. It was introduced in 1994, and has since become very popular in computers, where it forms part of very high-speed networks (LVDS) and current-mode logic (CML), and the ability to operate at both 622Mbps (OC-12) and 2.488Gbps (OC-48). "Until now, there was no simple way to upgrade network equipment manufacturers' backplanes to handle parallel un-encoded data and high-speed serial traffic along the same data path," said Elie Massabki, director of marketing with Mindspeed's Broadband Internetworking Systems business unit. "With Mindspeed's M27218 Octal SkyRail transceiver our customers can design upgrades to OC-48 or OC-192 using legacy backplanes to protect their customer's investments in existing systems and low-speed port cards while increasing port density and throughput by a factor of four." The M27218 is equipped with Amplif-Eye3(TM), Mindspeed's third-generation patented signal conditioning Imagine feeding the output of a temperature sensor, which is in millivolts, to an Analog-to-digital converter to be processed. Is it possible for the Analog-to-Digital converter to process such a minute voltage amplitude? The answer is probably no. circuitry, enabling manufacturers to provide superior signal integrity while upgrading existing FR-4 backplanes to higher speeds. SerDes transceivers provide serial connectivity between internal system components such as line cards and switching elements where high bandwidth and minimum connector pin count are required. The M27218 is a very low-power transceiver with total power consumption of less than 2.5 Watts at 2.488Gbps. It is optimized for a wide range of communications equipment requiring the LVDS/CML interface to operate at 2.488Gbps or 622Mbps, including add/drop multiplexers, optical cross-connects, multi-service switches, routers and network aggregators. Mindspeed's SkyRail family offers the broadest range of SerDes transceivers in the industry -- including single (CX27201), quad (M27207/M27205), and octal (M27211/M27218) devices -- for the widest range of performance and highest data rates per channel of any other transceiver family currently available. Technical Details The M27218 Octal SkyRail transceiver is an eight-channel SerDes device capable of operating from 400Mbps to 3.2Gbps. It integrates eight serial LVDS/CML transmitters and receivers that can adapt and interface to LVDS or CML/LVPECL inputs/outputs. [pilcrow (paragraph sign)] It also integrates 32 parallel LVDS transmitters and receivers, selectable 4-to-1/1-to-4 and 1-to-1 SerDes functions, clock and data recovery, synthesis circuitry, termination resistors and de-skew buffers. The M27218 offers AC and DC coupling capability and can accept more than 1,000 consecutive identical digits. The Amplif-Eye3 signal conditioning circuitry provides optimal signal integrity over standard FR-4 trace and legacy connectors through multi-level pre-emphasis on the transmitter and equalization In communications, techniques used to reduce distortion and compensate for signal loss (attenuation) over long distances. on the receiver. Amplif-Eye3 optimizes and maximizes the transceiver's reach, driving more than 60 inches (one and a half meters) of standard FR-4 backplane An interconnecting device that has sockets for printed circuit boards to plug into. Passive and Active Although resistors may be used, a "passive" backplane adds no processing in the circuit. traces and two connectors at 2.488Gbps. The M27218 also features low transmit jitter A flicker or fluctuation in a transmission signal or display image. The term is used in several ways, but it always refers to some offset of time and space from the norm. For example, in a network transmission, jitter would be a bit arriving either ahead or behind a standard clock cycle , high receive jitter tolerance, and receiver input sensitivity of 50 mV which further enhances performance and robustness. The M27218 transceiver also incorporates Mindspeed's Flexilink(TM) parallel LVDS interface. Flexilink simplifies system design and provides multiple clocking modes with adjustable timing to facilitate the interface of different application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs), which operate with different clocking and timing implementations. Pricing and Availability The M27218 Octal SkyRail SerDes transceiver will sample in July and volume production will begin in the fourth quarter of 2002. Packaged in a 23mm-x-23mm, 324-pin HSFBGA, the M27218 OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and price is $109 in volumes of 1,000. About Conexant Conexant Systems is a worldwide leader in semiconductor system solutions for communications applications. Conexant leverages its expertise in mixed-signal processing to deliver integrated systems and semiconductor products through two separate businesses: Conexant and Mindspeed Technologies. Mindspeed Technologies designs, develops and sells a complete portfolio of semiconductor networking solutions that facilitate the aggregation, transmission and switching of data, video and voice from the edge of the Internet to linked metropolitan area networks and long-haul networks. Conexant's personal networking business is focused on wireless communications wireless communications System using radio-frequency, infrared, microwave, or other types of electromagnetic or acoustic waves in place of wires, cables, or fibre optics to transmit signals or data. , digital infotainment and personal computing Refers to users working on their own computers rather than a terminal to a mainframe. Sometimes, the term refers to using computers at home for work and/or entertainment in contrast to business use only. See personal computer. products that are used in mobile communications and the broadband digital home. Conexant has headquarters in Newport Beach, and delivered revenues of $2.1 billion for fiscal 2000. The company is a member of the S&P 500 and Nasdaq-100 indices. To learn more, visit the company at www.conexant.com or www.mindspeed.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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