Advance Data Sheet
March 2000
DNC5X3125
Gigabit Ethernet Transceiver Macrocell
Overview
Features
The DNC5X3125 is a low-cost, low-power transceiver
macrocell. It is used for data transmission over fiber
or coaxial media in conformance with IEEE* 802.3z
Gigabit Ethernet specification and Fibre Channel
ANSI† X3T11 at 1.0 Gbits/s and 1.25 Gbits/s.
■ Designed to operate in Ethernet, fibre channel,
FireWire‡ or backplane applications.
■ Operationally compliant to IEEE 802.3z Gigabit
Ethernet specification.
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Operationally compliant to Fibre Channel ANSI
The transmitter section accepts parallel 10-bit
8b/10b encoded data that is latched on the rising
edge of TBC. It also accepts the low-speed, TTL
compatible system clock, REFCLK, and uses this
clock to synthesize the internal high-speed serial bit
clock. The serialized data is then available at the dif-
ferential PECL outputs, terminated in 50 Ω or 75 Ω to
drive either an optical transmitter or coaxial media.
Gbits/s—
X3T11. Provides FC-0 services at 1.0
1.25 Gbits/s (10-bit encoded data rate).
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100 MHz 125 MHz differential or single-ended
reference clock.
■ 10-bit parallel interface.
■ 8b/10b encoded data.
The receive section receives high-speed serial data
at its differential PECL input port. This data is fed to
the digital clock recovery section, which generates a
recovered clock and retimes the data. The retimed
data is deserialized and presented as 10-bit parallel
data on the output port. A divided-down version of
the recovered clock, synchronous with parallel data
bytes, is also available as a TTL compatible output.
The receive section recognizes the comma character
and aligns the comma-containing byte on the word
boundary, when ENCDET = 1.
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High-speed comma character recognition (K28.1,
K28.5, K28.7) for latency-sensitive applications
and alignment to word boundary.
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Two 50.0 MHz 62.5 MHz receive-byte clocks.
Single analog PLL design requires no external
components for the frequency synthesizer.
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Novel digital data lock in receiver avoids the need
for multiple analog PLLs.
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Expandable beyond single-channel SERDES.
PECL high-speed interface I/O for use with optical
transceiver or coaxial copper media.
■ Requires one external resistor for PECL output ref-
erence level definition.
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Low-power digital 0.25 m CMOS technology.
3.3 V ± 5% power supply.
■ 0 °C—
°
70 C ambient temperature.
* IEEE is a registered trademark of The Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers, Inc.
† ANSI is a registered trademark of American National Standards
Institute.
‡ FireWire is a registered trademark of Apple Computer, Inc.