Two low-power PHY chips are driven by 3.3-V supply

Ottawa - Fabless semiconductor startup Quake Technologies Inc. is sampling its first two products, the QT1090 transimpedance-limiting amplifier and the QT2010 10-Gbit/second serializer-deserializer transceiver. Together the two chips present a physical-layer (PHY) solution that consumes less than 2.5 watts and can be driven from a single 3.3-volt supply, the company said.

The QT1090 preamplifier is designed for fiber-optic local-, metropolitan- and wide-area network applications including Sonet/SDH and 10-Gbit Ethernet. It operates at 9.953 to 10.7 Gbits/s with power consumption of 170 mW.

The QT2010 Serdes includes a multiplexer and demultiplexer, clock and data recovery circuitry, phase-locked loop, programmable transmit clock and data-phase aligner, clock input frequency and serial loopback for diagnostic testing. It complies with the specifications of the Optical Internetworking Forum, offers 9.953- to 10.3-Gbit/s speeds for Ethernet and Sonet/SDH, and consumes 2.2 W.

Both parts should be in production by the fourth quarter. In quantities of 1,000, the QT1090 is priced at $200 and the QT2010 at $600.

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