- Exploitation of optical interconnects in future server architectures
HEADNOTE Optical fiber links have become ubiquitous for links at the metropolitan and wide area distance scales, and have become common alternatives to electrical links in local area networks and cluster networks. As optical technology improves and link frequencies continue to increase, optical links will be increasingly considered for shorter, ......
- Freescale Details 90nm Dual Core Processor Architecture
Freescale Semiconductor Inc. today unveiled the embedded MPC8641D Dual Core processor designed to deliver a performance jump and increased system bandwidth while keeping power under control. Engineered to deliver the performance, connectivity and integration needed to meet the needs of networking, telecom, military, storage and pervasive computing applications, the MPC8641D ......
- Optoelectronic substrates: will they happen?
Acceptance will require overhauls to PWB and assembly
operations.
Ed.: This article can be viewed in its entirety at circuitsassembly.com/cms/content/view/5611. Optoelectronic interconnect is an alternative to copper that can provide increased bandwidth and other advantages for special applications. For example, OE interconnect does not have the problem of "noise" that copper interconnect can (a significant issue for high-speed ......
- Abracadabra: making system interconnect disappear with FPGAs
Designing system interconnect isn't the most glamorous engineering job in the world. Indeed, to most system or digital designers, being assigned a backplane, interconnect, and connector selection is tantamount to being told to go stand in a corner with a pointy hat. In reality, what they need is a wand ......
- Hurry up and wait
Following the interconnect wars is almost interesting. The HyperTransport Consortium says it's not directly competing with PCI Express, yet the consortium's own bandwidth comparisons line it up against PCI Express. The PCI Express folks claim that PCI Express will dominate the world because it allows you not only to use ......
- Optoelectronic substrates--will it happen? The
economic model for the optoelectronic interconnect favors high data rate
transmission over moderate to long distances, limiting applications to
high-end telecommunication...
Optoelectronic (OE) interconnect is an alternative to copper that can provide increased bandwidth and other advantages for special applications. For example, OE interconnect does not have the problem of "noise" that a copper interconnect can (a significant issue for high-speed communications). OE technology is also appealing for use in ......
- Managing heterogeneous InfiniBand and fibre channel fabrics
Storage Networking While today's server I/O and Fibre Channel technologies provide high bandwidth and vast amounts of storage, the applications of tomorrow will tax even the most evolved data centers. Consider a credit card transaction processing center, dealing with millions of requests a day. Or a video-on-demand provider, streaming many ......