Chris. That's real nice. I used to use Gennum in products we did years ago for digital video interface and designs. They have been making these part types for about 15 years now. I guess this is a stroke of good luck. When I read your message I thought, ah what the heck lets just throw that one out there and see what happens and it worked. Richard Jungert http://www.rjungert.com 23 years in electronic design Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 13:59:29 -0400 From: cjohnson@xxxxxxx To: r_jungert@xxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [SI-LIST] Re: Lowest cost way to implement 16 5Gbps SERDES channels Richard, Thanks for the info. That's exactly the type of chip that I was looking for. It didn't show up in my searches. Chris Richard Jungert wrote: Chris. Have you talked to Gennum? http://www.gennum.com. See Datacom products. Example: 4 channel Serdes, each channel up to 5Gb/s. Part number GN1405C. Richard Jungert Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 09:54:53 -0400 From: cjohnson@xxxxxxx To: si-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [SI-LIST] Lowest cost way to implement 16 5Gbps SERDES channels I've been looking at ways to implement 16 5Gbps SERDES channels and it seems that to get this speed you need to use one of the really expensive FPGAs (i.e. much greater than $1K per chip). I don't need a ton of non-SERDES logic, so I'm looking for a more reasonably priced solution. I'm even amenable to non-FPGA implementations. Any thoughts? Thanks, Chris ------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from si-list: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field or to administer your membership from a web page, go to: //www.freelists.org/webpage/si-list For help: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'help' in the Subject field List technical documents are available at: http://www.si-list.net List archives are viewable at: //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list or at our remote archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/si-list/messages Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu _________________________________________________________________ Get back to school stuff for them and cashback for you. http://www.bing.com/cashback?form=MSHYCB&publ=WLHMTAG&crea=TEXT_MSHYCB_BackToSchool_Cashback_BTSCashback_1x1 ------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from si-list: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field or to administer your membership from a web page, go to: //www.freelists.org/webpage/si-list For help: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'help' in the Subject field List technical documents are available at: http://www.si-list.net List archives are viewable at: //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list or at our remote archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/si-list/messages Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu _________________________________________________________________ Get your vacation photos on your phone! http://windowsliveformobile.com/en-us/photos/default.aspx?&OCID09TL-HM ------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from si-list: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field or to administer your membership from a web page, go to: //www.freelists.org/webpage/si-list For help: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'help' in the Subject field List technical documents are available at: http://www.si-list.net List archives are viewable at: //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list or at our remote archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/si-list/messages Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu