Kandou Announces Availability of Glasswing(TM) USR SerDes IP - Seite 2

Glasswing delivers unprecedented SerDes performance with 500Gbps of bi-directional bandwidth on just 2.4mm of die edge while consuming only about 1 pJ/bit.  The IP is designed to natively support a BER of at most 1E-15.  Kandou offers a simple FEC as an additional feature that can improve margins and meet more stringent BER targets (1E-21 or better).  The FEC is entirely optional but if used adds just 1.25ns of latency to the already low fixed latency of the SerDes which is only 4.4ns. 

Inside the package, Glasswing can support up to 6dB insertion loss which is more than 30mm with GZ-41 substrate material.  More importantly, chiplets can be positioned in the corners of the MCM package, allowing better area optimization.  In applications where the chiplets contain long-reach SerDes, the chiplet can be positioned very close to the package balls, greatly reducing package loss.  The use of chiplets can also significantly increase the yield of the central die by moving functionality, such as the full I/O subsystem, into the chiplets.

A photo accompanying this announcement is available at http://www.globenewswire.com/NewsRoom/AttachmentNg/0dd9d4e6-2b4f-4312- ...

Kandou has built three test chips to validate Glasswing in silicon.

Availability

The first SerDes IP in the Glasswing family, called GW16-500-USR,  is available immediately in a TSMC 16nm FinFet process.  Multiple variants will soon be available for other processes and in different metal stacks and orientations.

Work is also underway on development of solutions delivering twice and four times the current bandwidth per millimeter of die edge, both of which will be able to communicate with GW16-500-USR.

All IPs are full, turnkey solutions and are delivered with a comprehensive complement of design files, documentation, and field support to insure ease of integration.  Kandou also offers evaluation modules to allow customers to validate Glasswing's in-system performance.

Flexible Business Model

In addition to a traditional hard IP license, Kandou also offers a soft IP license model that gives customers the flexibility to port the IP to different foundries, process nodes and metal stacks.  The actual porting work may be performed by the customer, by Kandou, or by a Kandou partner. 

Kandou provides full support to customers to help insure that Glasswing operates as it should in their applications.

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