Title :
170Gb/s FPGA to FPGA optical interconnects using a x12 14Gb/s onboard optics
Author :
Viitas, Lauri ; Verdiell, Marc ; Burt, Kevin ; Langsam, David ; Zbinden, Eric
Author_Institution :
Guzik Test & Meas., Mountain View, CA, USA
Abstract :
We report on the development of a commercial PCIe card integrating an Altera Stratix FPGA with Samtec´s Firefly 12 lane miniature optical engine. We demonstrate error-free 170 Gb/s FPGA to FPGA bi-directional optical links.
Keywords :
field programmable gate arrays; integrated optoelectronics; on-board communications; optical communication equipment; optical interconnections; optical links; Altera Stratix FPGA; FPGA-FPGA optical interconnects; PCIe card; Samtec Firefly 12 lane miniature optical engine; bit rate 170 Gbit/s; error-free FPGA-FPGA bidirectional optical links; onboard optics; Adaptive optics; Field programmable gate arrays; Optical buffering; Optical fibers; Optical receivers;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Interconnects Conference (OI), 2015 IEEE
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-8178-6
DOI :
10.1109/OIC.2015.7115673
