Intel Custom Foundry Demonstrates Industry-Leading 32 Gbps SerDes on 14nm Process
November 18 2014 - 10:30AM
Business Wire
Operating Range Broadened to 1 to 32 Gbps
While Extending Power, Performance, Area Leadership
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS
- Builds on the power, performance and
area leadership of the 1 to 16 Gbps GP SerDes already demonstrated
on 14nm
- Extends operating range to 1 to 32 Gbps
while fully supporting the 28 Gbps common electrical I/O (CEI)
long-reach specification
- Offers extreme flexibility and
programmability to cover the industry's broadest range of SerDes
protocols
Intel Corporation today unveiled silicon characterization
results for its 1 to 32 Gbps high-speed SerDes on the 14nm process.
This 32 Gbps SerDes is the second SerDes offering and adds to the
previously announced 1 to 16 Gbps GP 14nm SerDes. It will be
available by end of this year.
Intel’s 14nm SerDes family is the second generation of SerDes
offering and is built on the success of Intel’s 12 and 28 Gbps
SerDes, which is currently in production on Intel’s 22nm Tri-gate
process technology. Intel’s 14nm SerDes extends the operating range
while reducing power by 20 percent and area by more than 40 percent
as compared to Intel’s 22nm SerDes offering.
This announcement marks the first time that a 32 Gbps,
multiprotocol SerDes has been validated on any sub-20nm foundry
process.
“Our SerDes architecture continues to improve with each
successive development in the Tri-gate process” said Ali Farhang,
vice president, Design and Enablement Services, Intel Custom
Foundry. “We are able to meet the 28G CEI LR spec while supporting
operation down to 1 Gbps, thus enabling flexibility in our
customers’ products.”
The 1 to 32 Gbps SerDes spans a wide range of protocols, such as
USB, PCIe, Ethernet and 10G-KR with extremely low jitter while
maintaining power and area efficiency. This efficiency extends to
emerging protocols like OIF, 100G Ethernet and 32 Fibre Channel.
Intel’s SerDes is a complete offering providing orientation
flexibility and protocol configurability with extensive
documentation for integration, test and verification, enabling ease
of integration.
“We evaluated many SerDes suppliers for our high-performance
Achronix FPGAs,” said Robert Blake, CEO of Achronix. “Both the
12.75G SerDes using Intel’s 22nm technology and the 32G SerDes
using Intel's 14nm technology met our stringent power/performance
requirements and the broad range of features that we needed. The
SerDes from Intel Custom Foundry is a key differentiating
technology for the growing range of high-speed interfaces that
our FPGAs require.”
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