General Description

The VSC7182 is a full-speed quad Fibre Channel and Gigabit Ethernet transceiver IC. Each of the four transmitters has a 10-bit wide bus, running up to 136MHz, which accepts 8B/10B encoded transmit characters and serializes the data onto high-speed differential outputs at speeds up to 1.36Gb/s.

Features

• Four Complete Transmitter/ Receiver Functions

in a Single Integrated Circuit

• Full Fibre Channel (T11) and Gigabit Ethernet

(IEEE 802.3z) Compliance

• 1.05Gb/s to 1.36Gb/s Operation per Channel

• Common or Per-Channel Transmit Byte Clocks

• TTL or PECL Reference Clock Input

• Receiver Squelch Circuit

• Common and Per-Channel, Serial and Parallel

Loopback Controls

• Common Comma Detect Enable Inputs

• Per-Channel Comma Detect Outputs

• Cable Equalization in Receivers

• Replacement For Agilent’s HDMP-1682

• 3.3V Power Supply, 2.67 W Max Dissipation

• 208-Pin, 23mm BGA Packaging