Industry’s Highest Bandwidth FPGA EnablesWorld’s First Single-FPGA Solutionfor 400G Communications Line Cards_

Industry’s Highest Bandwidth FPGA EnablesWorld’s First Single-FPGA Solutionfor 400G Communications Line Cards_

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By Greg Lara

To address the insatiable demand for more bandwidth,the telecommunications industry is accelerating development of Nx100G and 400G line cards for communication systems. These systems will leverage new optical interconnect standards to address power density and thermal management issues attendant with scaling the capacity of existing infrastructure. A critical component of the solution is 28 Gb/s electrical interfaces that increase port density and reduce power per bit.

Xilinx is responding to the demand for more bandwidth with two key developments. The first is high-fidelity 28 Gb/s transceiver technology that meets the stringent requirements of next-generation communication systems. The second is

28 nm Virtex-7 HT FPGAs that integrate an unprecedented 16 x 28 Gb/s and 72 x 13.1 Gb/s transceivers with logic, memory, and I/O resources that enable the first silicon device (FPGA or otherwise) to support 400G line cards and the industry’s largest single-FPGA solution for Nx100G line cards.