High Speed Serial Interconnect Technologies Seminar

The focus of the seminar or lunch-n-learn is high-speed serial interconnect technologies – the multi-gigabit serial links used in a variety of applications today such as sFPDP, fiber channel, VXS, XMC modules, VPX, ATCA, AMC modules, sATA and SAS and available in FPGAs such as the Xilinx Virtex-5 or Virtex-II Pro and the Stratix GX.

There will also be discussion on why the shift from parallel buses to high speed serial interconnects is occurring, the fundamentals of high-speed serial technologies, and the fundamentals of point-to-point and switched fabric protocols (e.g., Aurora, sFPDP, sRIO, PCI Express, etc.).

We take a look at some of the relevant standards that make use of high-speed serial interconnects (i.e., sFPDP, XMC modules, VXS, and VPX) and how these technologies can be applied to build embedded systems.

Examples of products based on high-speed serial interconnects will be available to see and hold. Demonstrations of a VXS system and a PCI Express analyzer allow you to see these technologies in action.

The seminar includes the following topics:

• The move from parallel buses to serial interconnects, including the problems with parallel buses
• High speed serial interconnect basics
  • Point-to-point connections
  • LVDS signaling
  • Full duplex
  • 8b/10b encoding
  • SERDES
  • Protocol basics
    • Bonding multiple lanes
    • Switch concepts
    • Multicasting
    • Packets
  • Point-to-point protocols
    • Point-to-point protocol basics
    • Aurora
    • sFPDP
  • Switched fabric protocols
    • Switched fabric protocol basics
    • sRIO
    • PCIe & AS
    • InfiniBand and Ethernet
  • Relevant standards and applications
    • XMC (VITA 42)
    • VXS (VITA 41)
    • VPX (VITA 46)

Contact your representative to arrange an this seminar at your site.