Date: 31/08/2010

Achronix and Opticom jointly develop platform for high speed optical data communication

High speed FPGA maker Achronix and optical module supplier Opticomp have jointly developed a platform for developing, characterizing and demonstrating high-speed optical data communication. Achronix says that this programmable development system is the result of a close and productive collaboration between the two companies. The 120 Gb/s multiport system (expandable to 160 Gb/s) can be used with individual optical modules or with multiple 40Gb/s optical paths connected together into a network.

The Achronix-Opticomp solution was demonstrated at the AMAPS XI (Advanced Microelectronics and Photonics for Space) conference in Lake Tahoe, June 8-11, 2010.

One of the products developed by the Achronix and Opticom joint program is the Bridge100 system. This system offers the following features:

a. 120 Gb/s bi-directional throughput (three 40 Gb/s ports and twelve 10 Gb/s ports),
b. Additional expansion ports (80 Gb/s),
c. Additional video ports (4 HDMI Tx, 2 HDMI Rx),
d. Up to 32 GB of traffic buffering (DDR3 SDRAM at 1066 Mb/s per lane),
e. Nine SPD60 FPGAs (fully reprogrammable).

When used as a stand-alone test system, the primary roles of the Bridge100 for this application are data generation, formatting, and checking. When used with external traffic sources and destinations (as in an operational data network) its primary roles are classification, storage, retrieval, and transmission (according to a user-specified scheduling policy),

For more information visit: www.achronix.com.