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Zarlink Semiconductor Inc.
PX6420
Multi-Rate TIA/LA Optical Receiver
Product Brief
Description
The growing use of the Internet has created
increasingly higher demand for multi-Gb/s I/O
performance. The demand and availability of 10
Gb/s+ WAN bandwidth fuels the growth of native
10 Gb/s infrastructures within MAN and enterprise
datacenters.
The Primarion
PX6420 10 Gb/s receiver is a
single channel TIA/LA optical receiver designed for
various 10 Gb/s PMD applications. It consists of a
transimpedance
amplifier and an AC-coupled
differential limiting amplifier.
The transimpedance amplifier achieves a nominal
bandwidth of 8 GHz over a wide range of
photodiode input capacitance. A photodiode bias
current monitor allows for a simple alignment
procedure.
The transimpedance amplifier is AC-coupled
internally to a high-gain, high-bandwidth, limiting
amplifier. The limiting amplifier provides a
differential back-terminated CML output that can
be used to drive 10 Gb/s Serdes or other CML
compatible circuits.
Full diagnostics are delivered through loss of
signal, squelch, and received signal strength
indicator circuits.
September 2004
Features
Integrated transimpedance and limiting
amplifier for serial optical receiver
applications
Receiver sensitivity 20 μA
pp
for 10
-12
BER at
10 Gb/s
Receive signal strength indicator (RSSI) for
digital diagnostics and active alignment
Loss of signal indicator (LOS)
Optional squelch circuit disables output at low
input levels
Back-terminated 50-ohm CML output
providing 250 mVpp differential amplitude
No external passives required for photodiode
bias network
Single +3.3 V supply dissipating 115 mW
Applications
850 nm and 1310 nm receive optical sub-
assemblies (ROSA)
XFP, X2, XPAC, XENPAC optical modules
10GbE, 10GFC, 8GFC, 4GFC, OC-192 VSR
Proprietary back plane optics