Altera unveils first 20nm 32Gb/s transceiver
Altera has demonstrated a new programmable device based on TSMC's 20SoC process technology, which it claims is the first to offer 32Gb/s transceiver capabilities.
"Today's news represents a significant milestone for the industry and for the transceiver development team at Altera," said Vince Hu, the company's vice president of product and corporate marketing.
"These 20nm devices contain the key IP components that will be included in our next generation fpgas and validating them now provides us confidence we will deliver to the market 20nm fpgas on schedule."
In a video posted on the company's website (see below), the 20nm transceivers can be seen operating at 32Gb/s with just over 9ps of total jitter and a low random jitter of 240fs.
Altera says the results show good margin to key industry specifications required for next generation 100G systems.
