Serial link aggregators support data rates up to 10Gb/s
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Two 10gb/s serial link aggregator ics - designed to reduce cable interconnect costs, development time and power consumption - have been introduced by Texas Instruments.
The TLK10081 and TLK10022 offer multiple serial link aggregation configurations for communications, video and imaging applications.
They aggregate and de-aggregate point to point serial data streams for transmission over backplanes, copper cables and optical links.
Both devices are claimed to occupy a 70% smaller footprint compared to fpgas and use only two power rails.
The TLK10081 can aggregate up to eight lanes of full duplex, 1.25Gb/s data traffic onto a single 10Gb/s link for transmission over short distance backplanes or copper cables up to 10m, or long distance optical links.
The TLK10022 supports 4:1, 3:1 and 2:1 bidirectional serial link configurations, while the TLK10081 manages 8:1 bidirectional links.
Each device supports many different data types without requiring special data encoding.
Intelligent serial link switching rnables programmable channel lane switching of serial links in different configurations without using external multiplexing.
