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4-Channel  2.125, 2.5 and 3.125 Gbit/s Transceiver with Half-rate Support
QuadPHY-II
PMC-2000791 (A4) 
PROPRIETARY AND CONFIDENTIAL TO PMC
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SIERRA, INC., AND FOR ITS CUSTOMERS
’
 INTERNAL USE 
 Copyright PMC
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Sierra, Inc. 2001
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The QuadPHY-II is a physical layer 
transceiver ideal for systems requiring
high speed point-to-point communi-
cation links. It is applicable for PMA-
PMD connections in 10 GE, Infiniband 1 
or 4 x 2.5 Gbit/s links, 1 and 2 Gbit/s 
Fibre Channel, as well as high speed 
serial backplanes for high capacity 
systems.  
FEATURES
GENERAL
 10Gbit/s, bi-directional, XAUI to XGMII 
link supporting the proposed IEEE 
802.3ae (the standard is draft and is 
subject to change).
 Four independent 2.125, 2.5 and 3.125 
Gbit/s Serdes for Fibre Channel, 
Infiniband, 10 GE line cards and high-
speed backplane applications.
 Half/Full rate mode selectable per 
channel.
 Integrated serializer/ deserializer, clock 
synthesis, clock recovery and 8B/10B 
encode/decode logic.
 Under 2 Watts typical power.
SERIAL I/O
 Redundant high speed serial I/O 
channels for convenient switching to 
redundant fabric.
 High speed outputs with optional pre-
emphasis to drive longer backplanes.
 High speed I/O with on-chip 
termination resistors to directly drive 
dual-terminated 50 Ohm lines.
PARALLEL I/O
 10-bit Dual Data Rate (DDR) parallel 
interface.
 Selectable source simultaneous or 
source synchronous transmit and 
receive parallel interfaces.
 Convenient output clock for user 
friendly ASIC timing.
 Interoperates with SSTL2 and 1.8V 
LVCMOS standard.
TRUNKING &TIMING
 Integrated Receive FIFO synchronizes 
incoming data to local clock domain.
 Trunking feature de-skews and aligns 
all  four channels to form a single 10 
Gbit/s logical link.
TEST FEATURES
 Extensive control of loopback, BIST, 
and operating modes via 802.3 
compliant MDC/MDIO serial interface.
 On-chip packet generator/checker- 
provides at-speed diagnostics.
 Built-in error counters per channel.
 Support for IEEE 1149.1 JTAG testing 
on all pins.
PHYSICAL
 1.8V, 0.18 micron standard CMOS 
technology with 2.5V tolerant I/O.
 289-ball PBGA (19mm x 19mm 
package).
APPLICATIONS
 High speed serial backplanes
 10 GE links
 Fibre Channel transceivers
 Infiniband transceivers
 XAUI retimers
 Intra-system interconnect
8B/10B Encoder
Serializer
Transmit Channel A (1 of 4)
FIFO & Trunking
Logic
10B/8B Decoder
Deserialize & Byte
Align
Clock Recovery
Receive Channel A (1 of 4)
Clock Synthesizer
Common Control Logic
P
RESET,
MDC, MDIO
Mode strapping pins
JTAG interface
BIST pins
TXD[9:0]
(per channel)
9 or 10
10
(pRXCLK
RXD[9:0]
(per channel)
8 or 10
9 or 10
TXCLK
(shared)
R
S
FIFO & /A/
insert
Adaptive
Sampler
SYSCLK
(1x or 2x rate)
TDOXP/
TDOXN
TDOYP/
TDOYN
(per channel)
RDIXP/
RDIXN
RDIYP/
RDIYN
(per channel)
2
2
2
2
BLOCK DIAGRAM