Altera's transceiver solution integral part of Motorola MXP platform - New Products & Services - Brief Article

Mobile Internet, The, May, 2002

Altera Mercury devices provide a critical high-speed link in Motorola's Multi-Service Packet Transport Platform (MXP). Motorola chose Altera's devices for the MXP because it required a flexible, high-speed transceiver solution including clock-data recovery (CDR) to meet the high bandwidth requirements of the proposed CompactPCI Serial Mesh Backplane (CSMB) standard. The CSMB is a point-to-point serial interconnect that will enable the creation of high-speed packet environments in excess of 700 Gbps with the ability to connect multiple networks and support mixed-protocol applications such as 3G base stations, edge routers, and media gateways.

The MXP addresses the need for telecom OEMs to handle different types of traffic over different networks--including IP, ATM, and circuit-switched--particularly as the telecom world moves toward an all-packet transport. In order to support the potentially heavy processing requirements for this traffic, the MXP supports up to 18 slots for network processors or general-purpose processors, more than any other platform that meets the PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group backplane communications standard (PICMG 2.20). Mercury devices offer built-in serializer/deserializer (SERDES) capabilities, and are the only PLDs available that offer up to 18 CDR channels, making them an ideal solution for the MXP or any platform based on the CSMB.