Product Brief
Marvell® Alaska® C 88X5123
Dual 100G/40G, Quad 50G, Octal 25G/10G Ethernet Transceiver
Overview
The Marvell® Alaska® C 88X5123 is a fully integrated device that
performs all physical layer functions required to drive 100G,
50G, 40G, 25G, 10G, 5G, 2.5G and 1G Ethernet over a variety of
media including; optics, backplanes and passive copper cables.
Manufactured with 28 nanometer (nm) lithography, in a small
17mmx17mm 256 pin FCBGA package footprint, the Alaska C
88X5123 enables low-power dissipation, high density 100GbE,
50GbE, and 25GbE line card designs.
The device supports 40GBase-R2 to 40GBase-R4 gearboxing
functionality to enable high-density 40GbE applications on
switch ASICs with native 25G I/Os. For applications not
requiring the FEC functionality, the device also supports a low
latency retimer mode where the functionalities associated with
the PCS and FEC are bypassed. In this mode, the 88X5123
supports a hole free operation from 1.25Gbps to 28.05Gbps to
support a wide variety of standards and rates. The device
includes internal PRBS generators and loopbacks to assist with
test and debug. In addition, nondestructive eye monitoring is
supported on all high speed I/Os.
The line interface and host interfaces of the 88X5123 are fully
compliant to the IEEE 802.3bj and IEEE 802.3by standards
100Gb and 25Gb Ethernet operation. The device supports all
the FEC configurations specified by IEEE 802.3bj, and 802.3by
standards as well as the 25/50G Ethernet consortium. The
device also supports auto-negotiation and coefficient training
protocol required by the IEEE 802.3 and 25/50G consortium
specifications for twinaxial cable and backplane applications.
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