Title :
A SONET/SDH overhead terminator for STS-3, STS-3C, and STM-1
Author :
Hamlin, Robert W., Jr. ; Parruck, Bud
Author_Institution :
TranSwitch Corp., Shelton, CT, USA
fDate :
3/1/1993 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
A single-chip synchronous optical network/synchronous digital hierarchy (SONET/SDH) overhead terminator has been designed for use in STS-3, STS-3C, and STM-1 applications. The chip has been fabricated in a 1 μm CMOS process and contains 220000 transistors. The features supported by the chip include overhead extraction, overhead insertion, alarm detection, alarm generation, performance monitoring, pointer tracking, pointer generation, payload retiming, and payload realignment. The architecture of the IC and several of the chip´s more interesting features are described
Keywords :
CMOS integrated circuits; SONET; VLSI; synchronous digital hierarchy; 1 micron; CMOS; SONET/SDH; alarm detection; alarm generation; features; overhead extraction; overhead insertion; overhead terminator; payload realignment; payload retiming; performance monitoring; pointer generation; pointer tracking; CMOS process; Clocks; Concatenated codes; Frequency; Monitoring; Optical design; Payloads; SONET; Signal design; Synchronous digital hierarchy;
Journal_Title :
Solid-State Circuits, IEEE Journal of
