GENERAL DESCRIPTION:

The VSC8476 is a 10Gb Ethernet and 10Gb Fibre Channel Serial Transceiver that has a 10-Gigabit Attachment Unit Interface (XAUI) I/O, 8B/10B Encoder/Decoders, 64B/66B encoder/decoder, gearboxing function, 16:1 mux/demux and high speed I/O.

FEATURES:

10GbE and Fibre Channel Serial LAN Transceiver

Fully Compliant per IEEE802.3ae and T11 10GFC

XFI compliant 10.5 GbPs High-speed Front-end

Enhanced IO for Long Reach Copper Interconnect

4 x 3.125 & 3.182 Gbps XAUI I/O

XAUI I/O Programmability: Lane Swap, Bit Order Swap, Invert, Deskew, Amplitude, Emphasis and Equalization

Multiple Loop back Modes and Built in Self Test capabilities

JTAG Access Port

1.8V & 1.2V & 1.5V Supplies

TTL-compatible (1.5V or 1.8V or 3.3V Supply)

1W (Typical) Power

APPLICATIONS:

10 Gbps Ethernet Switches

10 Gbps Ethernet Routers

10 Gbps Ethernet Network Interface Cards

10 Gbps Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters

10 Gbps Fibre Channel Switches