On September 10, 2007 the Optoelectronics Industry Development Association (OIDA) formed the Silicon Photonics
Alliance (SPA) Community of Interest (COI) group within the OIDA to focus on market and business cooperation by its
members in order to enable silicon photonics product introduction to mainstream markets. This paper discusses recent
development in commercialization of silicon photonics based products, the mission of the SPA in supporting
commercialization of Silicon Photonics based products, SPA activities and benefits of joining the alliance. Finally
contact information for interested parties is provided to assist in joining the alliance.
A mixed signal Application-Specific Standard Product (ASSP) which integrates custom phase-locked loop (PLL) based clock recovery and clock synthesis functions with configurable logic cells provides a two-chip solution for 266 to 1062 Mbit/s Fiber Channel applications. The chipset performs parallel-to-serial and serial-to-parallel conversion, 8B/10B encoding/decoding functions, framing, and primitive signal/sequence generation and identification. The on-chip clock synthesis PLL generates the high-speed serial clock from a low-speed reference. The on-chip clock recovery PLL is capable of synchronizing directly to incoming digital signals, while simultaneously retiming and regenerating the data stream. The chips are designed using an advanced one-micron bipolar process with `Turbo' cells resulting in substantially reduced static power and output skews. Models for the PLL functions have been developed for use in logic simulation platforms. These models allow full chip-level and system-level simulation capabilities.
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