Mindspeed Introduces the Industry's Fastest and Lowest Power Transceiver for High-Speed Network System Backplanes.Business Editors and 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)--Oct. 1, 2001 Mindspeed's New 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 SerDes Transceiver Delivers an Unprecedented 27.2 Gbps of Bandwidth with an Operating Range of 1 to 3.4 Gbps per Channel While Consuming Only 1.6 Watts of Power Mindspeed Technologies(TM), the Internet infrastructure business of Conexant Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CNXT), today introduced the industry's fastest and lowest-power 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. The M27211 Octal SkyRail transceiver delivers a range of bandwidth from 1 to 3.4 Gbps per channel, enabling an unprecedented 27.2 Gbps of bandwidth over all eight channels and consuming only 1.6 watts of power. 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 new M27211 Octal SkyRail transceiver is designed for high-speed 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. and chassis-to-chassis applications in virtually every multi-port networking device in development today. With the addition of this new transceiver, Mindspeed's SkyRail family offers the broadest range of SerDes transceivers in the industry -- including single (CX27201), quad (M27207), and octal (M27211) devices -- for the widest range of performance and highest data rates per channel of any other transceiver family currently available. The M27211 is equipped with Amplif-Eye2(TM), Mindspeed's second generation of 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, which will enable the re-use of legacy FR-4 backplanes and connectors for very high-speed designs. "We are proud to announce this industry milestone in our SkyRail transceiver family which will help our customers achieve even faster, higher density designs," said Raouf Halim, Mindspeed's chief executive officer. "This new transceiver reinforces our strategy to continually provide more integrated and higher performance silicon solutions and will serve to interconnect different Mindspeed components to each other and to our customers' systems." "No other single SerDes transceiver can deliver the raw speed, range of bandwidth, and low power consumption of our new Octal SkyRail device," said Elie Massabki, director of marketing with Mindspeed's Broadband Internetworking Systems business unit. "The M27211's Amplif-Eye2 signal conditioning circuitry will allow customers to retain their investments in their legacy backplanes and connectors and will enable a system design scalability unprecedented in the industry." Technical Details The M27211 Octal SkyRail transceiver is an eight-channel SerDes device that operates in a range of 1 to 3.4 Gbps per channel. It is the first transceiver to utilize the OIF OIF Operation Iraqi Freedom OIF Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (French: International Organization of Francophonie) OIF Office for Intellectual Freedom (American Library Association) SxI-5 standard's clock forwarding option, which eliminates the requirement for data encoding or scrambling. In clock forwarding mode, the M27211 achieves a pure data bandwidth of 27.2 Gbps, or the equivalent of 34 Gbps of 8B/10B encoded data. With all eight channels running at full capacity, the M27211 operates at a very low total power consumption of 1.6 watts. The new Octal SkyRail transceiver is equipped with Amplif-Eye2 patented signal conditioning circuitry, which provides seven settings of pre-emphasis with low voltage Low voltage is an electrical engineering term that broadly identifies safety considerations of an electricity supply system based on the voltage used. While different definitions exist for the exact voltage range covered by "low voltage", the most commonly used ones include "mains sensitivity for maximum signal recovery. Amplif-Eye2 optimizes and maximizes the transceiver's reach over very long traces and connectors, making it ideal to drive more than 40 inches (one meter) of standard FR-4 backplanes and legacy, non-impedance controlled connectors. In addition, the new transceiver uses Mindspeed's Flexilink(TM) parallel interface with adjustable timing to facilitate the interface of different application-specific integrated circuits (hardware) Application-Specific Integrated Circuit - (ASIC) An integrated circuit designed to perform a particular function by defining the interconnection of a set of basic circuit building blocks drawn from a library provided by the circuit manufacturer. (ASICs), which operate with different clocking and timing implementations. The parallel interface simplifies system design, provides SSTL-2 and low-power 1.5/1.8 Volt HSTL HSTL High-Speed Transceiver Logic (family of logic integrated circuits) HSTL High-Speed Transistor Logic (electronics) interface options, and offers support for 10 Gigabit Ethernet An Ethernet standard that transmits at 1 Gbps. Used mostly to connect high-end workstations and servers as well as for network backbones, Gigabit Ethernet transmits full duplex from point to point using switches and half duplex in a shared environment (CSMA/CD) using a hub. XGMII XGMII 10 Gbit Media Independent Interface XGMII Ten Gbps Media Independent Interface , Fibre Channel, and Gigabit Ethernet 10-bit interfaces. The Flexilink interface can operate at single data rate in half-speed mode or double data rate in full-speed mode. The M27211 Octal SkyRail SerDes transceiver integrates eight transmitters and receivers, serializers and deserializers, clock-and-data recovery, synthesis circuits, 8B/10B encoders/decoders, termination resistors, and channel alignment/de-skewing circuitry. The M27211 is capable of detecting a variety of characters, including COMMA for byte alignment. The 8B/10B encoding/decoding circuitry can be bypassed to enable the OIF SxI-5 standard's clock forwarding function and alternate encoding schemes, such as synchronous optical network (networking) Synchronous Optical NETwork - (SONET) A broadband networking standard based on point-to-point optical fibre networks. SONET will provide a high-bandwidth "pipe" to support ATM-based services. (SONET) scrambling or a customer's proprietary encoding algorithm; the M27211 is capable of accepting more than 90 consecutive identical digits to support these alternate encoding schemes. The device requires no external components for operation. Pricing and Availability The M27211 Octal SkyRail SerDes transceiver is currently sampling in four speed grades: 1 to 1.25 Gbps, 1 to 2.5 Gbps, 1 to 3.125 Gbps, and 1 to 3.4 Gbps. Volume production will begin in January 2002. 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 pricing for the 1-3.4 Gbps part is $119 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. 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