8GBIT S CMOS INTERFACE FOR PARALLEL FIBEROPTIC INTERCONNECTS/

The authors demonstrate an 8 Gbit/s CMOS link interface designed for u se with parallel fibre-optic interconnect technology. The link interfa ce is implemented in 0.8 mu m CMOS and consists of eight data channels and one frame control channel each operating at 1 Gbit/s along with a full-speed 1 GHz clock channel. The chip also provides dual-ported FI FO buffers for interface to a host computer.