- May 2002 -

May 28th, 2002


BFi OPTiLAS Introduces New Milestone in SerDes Integration for Semiconductor Chips from Agilent Technologies

Evry, France, May 2002 - Agilent Technologies Inc. has achieved a new milestone in the integration of serializer/deserializer (SerDes) channels in application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) used in communications applications. Agilent’s results are nine times the current standard in SerDes integration, and are expected to provide manufacturers with tremendous savings in board space and cost.

Agilent’s results were achieved by integrating 36 multi-rate SerDes channels operating at up to 3.125 Gb/s each, on a single CMOS chip. These results provide a new level of input/output (I/O) performance and integration in a CMOS process. Until today, the former industry standard was four 3.125 Gb/s SerDes channels per chip.

“Agilent continue to raise the bar in ASIC SerDes integration,” said Ernesto Prestifilippo, Business Development Director, BFi OPTiLAS, “As the distributor for Agilent in Europe, these advancements allow us to provide customers with savings in power, board space and cost.”

The multi-rate ASIC is backward compatible because each SerDes channel is able to operate at link rates down to 1.5 Gb/s. The device, which incorporates 32 million transistors, can also drive a signal approximately 20 meters over standard copper cable. Agilent has previously announced a chip with more than 50 2.5 Gb/s SerDes transmit and receive channels, and another ASIC with 16 3.25 Gb/s channels.

For more information please contact: Ernesto Prestifilippo, Business Development Director, BFi OPTiLAS.  E-mail : E.Prestifilippo@bfioptilas.avnet.com

About BFi OPTiLAS
BFi OPTiLAS, an AVNET Company, is a pan-European technical distributor of specialist products and services, including design engineering support, to the electronics and photonics markets. BFi OPTiLAS focuses on niche technology products such as magnetics, lasers, sensors, electro-optics, imaging, fiber optics, RF & microwave and other specialty components, systems, assemblies and metals. Some 350 sales engineers and other staff are employed at 12 offices throughout Europe.

For more information visit: www.bfioptilas.avnet.com

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