PX6514

The growing use of the Internet has created increasingly higher demand for multi-Gb/s I/O performance. The demand for 100 Gb/s+ WAN bandwidth fuels the growth of short-reach 40 Gb/s infrastructures within high-end telco and datacom routers, switches, servers and other proprietary chassis-to-chassis links.

The Zarlink PX6514 4x10 Gb/s VCSEL Driver is a four-channel VCSEL driver designed for various 4x10 Gb/s parallel optics and CWDM PMD applications. It consists of a DC-coupled amplifier with selectable modulation and bias currents optimized for driving commercially available, common cathode VCSELs from a single +3.3 V supply.

Individual channel settings are used to control the modulation and bias current and their temperature coefficients, allowing the optical output power and extinction ratio to be optimized. Data controlling the Primarion PX6514 VCSEL driver settings is loaded by a simple four-wire CMOS compatible serial interface that features read/write and daisy chain capabilities.