BCM8011

®

FOUR-CHANNEL 3.125 GIGABIT ETHERNET CMOS TRANSCEIVER

Application Diagram

resulting in an effective aggregate data rate of 10 Gigabits per

second (Gbps)

Gigabit media independent interface (XGMII) proposed by the

IEEE 802.3ae standards

Broadcom’s LC-VCO technology

Class I EIA/JEDEC specifications

from 156.25 MHz clock references

(1.8V and 2.5V supplies)

BCM8002

BCM8002

BCM8002

BCM8002

BCM8002

BCM8002

µP

BCM5632

Switch

Processor

BCM8011

XAUI-XGMII

Transceiver

TBI

XGMII

XAUI

Memory

1G Modules

10 GbE

Backplane

network when used with wavelength division multiplexing

(WDM) or XAUI interface to a serial 10-Gbps laser module.

cable reach (in excess of 40 km).

of copper traces over FR4 backplane.

the receive eye pattern, which results in a superb bit-error rate

(BER).

facilitates the design of the system. It provides enable/disable

functions such as PLL lock, channel synchronization, VCO

bypass, serial and loopback modes for self-diagnosis, and

selecting source-centered and source-synchronous clocking.

(BIST) is available using programmable pseudo-random bit

sequence (PRBS) and programmable pattern comparators.

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