Physical layer (PHY) controller Silicon Laboratories

Silicon Labs offers a complete family of transceiver and clock and data recovery (CDR) ICs targeted at OC-192/STM-64, 10GbE, OC-48/STM-16, OC-12/STM-4 and OC-3/STM-1 physical layer applications. These highly-integrated devices lead the industry in jitter performance, small package size and low power.

Features
Loss-of-signal alarm
Diagnostic and line loopbacks
SONET-compliant loop timed operation
No external loop filter components
Programmable slicing level and sample phase adjustment
LVDS Low Speed Interface
Single Supply 1.8 V Operation
Multi-rate operation
Low jitter generation
Small footprint
Low power

Applications
Optical transceiver modules
Optical transponder modules
SONET/SDH transmission systems
Add/Drop multiplexers
Digital cross connects
Gigabit Ethernet (GbE)
SONET/SDH/ATM routers

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