BCM8071

Description

The BCM8071 is a 10-GbE Serial Transceiver targeting the new IEEE 10G BASE-KR standard for running 10G serial data over backplane systems. The BCM8071 incorporates a sophisticated receive equalizer that extends the life of legacy systems today running 1G or XAUI data rates by providing a 4x or 10x bandwidth improvement on each channel.

An on-chip microcontroller provides users with flexibility and ease of use by automatically adjusting the equalizer parameters based on the performance BCM8071 of each backplane channel. On-chip clock synthesis is performed by the high-frequency low-jitter phase-locked loops for the PMD and XAUI output retimers.