September 28, 2011
Spectronix Inc. says it has added the Eye-BERT 10G and the Eye-BERT Micro 10G 10-Gbit bit error rate testers (BERTs) to its Eye-BERT product line. The two new BERT fiber-optic test and measurement systems are designed to combine low-cost and high performance via features not found in other test equipment.
September 28, 2011
NetLogic Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: NETL) says its new dual-channel AEL2020-LL 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) PHY with integrated serializer/deserializer (SerDes) features a latency of 70 nsec, a figure the company asserts is nearly a half that of competing chips. The AEL2020-LL PHY also offers the industry’s lowest power consumption, NetLogic Microsystems says.
September 27, 2011
Tabula, MorethanIP, and NetLogic Microsystems [NASDAQ: NETL] have combined to offer what they assert is the first programmable 100-Gigabit Ethernet (100GbE) chipset that can be produced for less than $500.
September 27, 2011
FPGA vendor Xilinx Inc. (Nasdaq: XLNX) announced it has acquired Modelware, a provider of traffic management/packet processing silicon intellectual property (IP) cores. Simultaneously, Xilinx unveiled FPGA-based 100-Gbps traffic management reference designs based on its Virtex-6 HTX FPGA.
September 27, 2011
Fiber-optic test and measurement equipment vendor Yenista Optics has expanded its flagship OSICS platform with new variable attenuator and optical switch modules. The additional functionality the new modules add to OSICS can be controlled though a single interface.
September 27, 2011
TriQuint Semiconductor, Inc. (NASDAQ: TQNT) has made three additions to its family of TriAccess line amplifiers designed to replace multiple devices in CATV/FTTH systems.