General Description

The VSC7216-01 is a quad, 8-bit parallel-to-serial and serial-to-parallel transceiver chip used for high bandwidth interconnection between busses, backplanes, or other subsystems. Four Fibre Channel and Gigabit Ethernet compliant transceivers provide up to 8.32Gb/s of duplex raw data transfer. Each channel can be operated at a maximum data transfer rate of 1088Mb/s (8 bits at 136MHz) or a minimum rate of 392Mb/s (8 bits at 49MHz). For the entire chip in duplex mode, the aggregate transfer rate is between 6.3Gb/s and 8.7Gb/s. The VSC7216-01 contains four 8B/10B encoders, serializers, de-serializers, 8B/10B decoders and elastic buffers which provide the user with a simple interface for transferring data serially and recovering it on the receive side.

The device can also be configured to operate as four non-encoded 10-bit transceivers.

Features

• 4 ANSI X3T11 Fibre Channel and IEEE 802.3z

   Gigabit Ethernet Compliant Transceivers

• Over 8 Gb/s Duplex Raw Data Rate

• Redundant PECL Tx Outputs and Rx Inputs

• 8B/10B Encoder/Decoder per Channel, Optional Encoder/Decoder Bypass Operation

• “ASIC-Friendly^TM ”Timing Options for Transmitter Parallel Input Data

• Elastic Buffers for Intra/Inter-Chip Cable Deskewing and Channel-to-Channel Alignment

• Tx/Rx Rate Matching via IDLE Insertion/Deletion

• Compatible with VSC7211/7212/7214

• Received Data Aligned to Local REFCLK or to Recovered Clock

• PECL Rx Signal Detect and Cable Equalization

• Per-Channel Serial Tx-to-Rx and Parallel Rxto-Tx Internal Loopback Modes

• Clock Multiplier Generates Baud Rate Clock

• Automatic Lock-to-Reference

• JTAG Boundary Scan Support for TTL I/O

• Built-In Self Test

•3.3V Supply, 3.0W

• 256-Pin, 27mm BGA package