VSC7216-06
Data Sheet
Multi-Gigabit Interconnect Chip with Extended Temperature Range
● Fast-Locking CRU
FEATURES
● Per-Channel Serial Tx-to-Rx and Parallel Rx-to-Tx
● Extended Temperature Operation: -40°C (ambient) to
Internal Loopback Modes
100°C (case)
● 0.98Gb/s to 1.36Gb/s or 0.49Gb/s to 0.68Gb/s
● Automatic Lock-to-Reference
● Three Levels of Deskew vs. Latency
● JTAG Boundary Scan Support for TTL I/O
● Built-In Self Test
● Four ANSI X3T11 Fibre Channel and IEEE 802.3z
Gigabit Ethernet-Compliant Transceivers
● Over 8Gb/s Duplex Raw Data Rate
● User-Selectable Half-Speed Mode
● Redundant PECL Tx Outputs and Rx Inputs
● 2.5V Supply, 700mW Typ
● 8B/10B Encoder/Decoder per Channel; Optional
● 256-Pin, 27mm BGA or 21mm Fine Pitch BGA
Encoder/Decoder Bypass Operation
Package
● ASIC-Friendly™ Timing Options for Transmitter
Parallel Input Data
● Elastic Buffers for Intra-/Inter-Chip Cable Deskewing
and Channel-to-Channel Alignment
APPLICATIONS
● Backplane Interconnect for Data Communications
● Tx/Rx Rate Matching via IDLE Insertion/Deletion
● Selectable PECL Input Termination
● Serial Bus Extension
● Received Data Aligned to Local REFCLK or to
● Gigabit Ethernet Transceiver
● Fibre Channel Transceiver
Recovered Clock
● PECL Rx Signal Detect and Cable Equalization
● On-Chip Termination
● Serial Link Redundancy
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The VSC7216-06 is a quad 8-bit parallel-to-serial and serial-to-parallel transceiver chip used for high bandwidth
interconnection between busses, backplanes, or other subsystems. Four Fibre Channel and Gigabit Ethernet-compliant
transceivers provide up to 8.32Gb/s of duplex raw data transfer. Each channel can be operated at a maximum data
transfer rate of 1088Mb/s (8 bits at 136MHz) or a minimum rate of 392Mb/s (8 bits at 49MHz). For the entire chip in
duplex mode, the maximum aggregate transfer rate is 8.7Gb/s. The VSC7216-06 contains four 8B/10B encoders,
serializers/deserializers (SerDes), 8B/10B decoders, and elastic buffers, which provide a simple interface for
transferring data serially and recovering it on the receive side. The VSC7216-06 can also be configured to operate as
four non-encoded 10-bit transceivers.
G52416, Revision 4.0
December 2006
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