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Slideshow: DesignCon presages silicon photonics era
Rick Merritt
1/31/2013 8:32 PM EST
A shoe-in to grab attention
The folks at Huber+Suhner knew how to catch the eye of the casual attendee. They tied up a fancy Swiss tennis shoe with one of their cables and, as the scope shows, it still runs!
The folks at Huber+Suhner knew how to catch the eye of the casual attendee. They tied up a fancy Swiss tennis shoe with one of their cables and, as the scope shows, it still runs!
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iniewski
2/1/2013 12:05 PM EST
"here comes PAM-2 and -4!"...well, these schemes were used several years ago to get up to 1Gb/s so little has really changed in that respect, throughput numbers are "just" getting bigger
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Adele.Hars
2/1/2013 12:48 PM EST
Just fyi, silicon photonics is almost entirely an SOI-based area -- even for Intel.
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resistion
2/2/2013 10:38 AM EST
The photonic component, e.g., VCSEL, is also power-consuming. Putting it on silicon really defeats the purpose of the low-power designs for the other electronic components.
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yalanand
2/2/2013 11:51 AM EST
Its amazing to know that copper traces can handle 40-50GB/s. I remember in India all telephone lines were using copper cables and it was later replaced with optical cables. I wonder if it was good idea to retain those cables.
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iniewski
2/4/2013 1:17 PM EST
what is the power dissipation for VCSELs?
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martin.rowe
2/4/2013 8:44 PM EST
I've written several blogs, including two slideshows, at www.theconnectingedge.com and
www.designconcommunity.com.
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