A GaAs transceiver chip for optical data transmission

Author

Mirabelli, G. ; Petrol, E. ; Valente, E. ; Cardarelli, R. ; Santonico, R. ; Ferrer, M.L.

Author_Institution

INFN, Sezione di Roma, Italy

Volume

40

Issue

4

fYear

1993

fDate

8/1/1993 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

713

Lastpage

716

Abstract

A transceiver VLSI chip is described for optical data transmission at 1 Gb/s (1.4 Gb/s in selected production). It is fabricated in GaAs technology. The transceiver makes parallel-to-serial and serial-to-parallel conversion, and encodes and decodes 32-b data words. The circuit operates in a completely asynchronous mode, allowing the possibility of switching on-off the transmission in a few nanoseconds, and of using the transceiver not only in point-to-point topologies, but also in flooding topologies (i.e., star connections). The radiation hardness and the relatively low power consumption with respect to transistor-transistor logic (TTL) of the GaAs extend the use of the chip to a large number of applications in high-energy physics experimental apparatus

Keywords

III-V semiconductors; VLSI; data communication equipment; digital integrated circuits; gallium arsenide; monolithic integrated circuits; optical communication equipment; transceivers; 1 Gbit/s; 1.4 Gbit/s; GaAs transceiver chip; asynchronous mode; flooding topologies; high-energy physics experimental apparatus; optical data transmission; power consumption; radiation hardness; serial-to-parallel conversion; transceiver VLSI chip; Circuit topology; Data communication; Decoding; Energy consumption; Floods; Gallium arsenide; Production; Switching circuits; Transceivers; Very large scale integration;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9499

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/23.256646

Filename

256646