Power Transceiver Delivers 27.2-Gb/s Bandwidth While Consuming Only 1.6W Of Power

Proclaimed as the industry's fastest and lowest power CMOS SerDes transceiver, the M27211 Octal SkyRail transceiver offers a bandwidth of 27.2 Gb/s over all eight of its channels while consuming just 1.6W. Single-channel bandwidth ranges from 1 to 3.4 Gb/s per channel.Designed for backplane and chassis-to-chassis applications, the CX27201 and M27207, single and quad transceivers, respectively, are presently sampling in four speed ranges, with a 1- to 3.4-Gb/s M27211 costing $119 each/1,000. MINDSPEED TECHNOLOGIES, Newport Beach, CA. (949) 579-3000.