With Gigabit Ethernet technology gaining steam in the communications sector, system designers must begin rethinking the choice of interface between media access controller (MAC), physical layer (PHY), ...

A popular means of reducing size and cost for any embedded design is to use a communication bus with fewer I/O pins. Moving from a parallel bus to a serial bus provides significant size and cost ...

Since the introduction of the USB protocol, you don't see many serial devices anymore. For that reason, most manufacturers no longer include a serial port on desktop or laptop computers. Therefore, if ...

For the first time in its history, the IEEE has released two Ethernet standards simultaneously: 40 Gigabit Ethernet (40GE) and 100 Gigabit Ethernet (100GE), both defined by the 802.3ba Task Force. For ...

This file type includes high resolution graphics and schematics when applicable. Practically every electronic product made today uses one or more serial data interfaces. A serial interface is the ...

You can implement flexible Ethernet systems using the Virtex-5 10/100/1000 Ethernet MAC. by Nick McKay, Senior Design Engineer, Xilinx, Inc. Soma Potluri, Senior Design Manager, Xilinx, Inc. Stuart ...

At some point, you’ll need to test that interface. Before testing, though, you should consider these five key factors. Practically everything you design these days includes some kind of serial ...

SPI-S delivers a channelized, streaming-packet interface scaleable to hundreds of Gb/s for chip-to-chip and backplane applications using OIF CEI interconnects with either 64B66B or CEI-P framing. By ...