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Provided in a 5mm x 5mm QFN package with a maximum power dissipation of only 500mW, the PHY2210 will particularly benefit SFP+ compliant active cables, where both power capacity and PCB space are limited. By integrating all receive and transmit functions in a single chip, the device will help reduce the power consumption, overall component count and cost of intra-rack, rack-to-rack and switch-to-switch data center cabling.

Incorporating the 2-wire interface required by SFP+ applications, the PHY2210 can be initialized and controlled by either a low cost microcontroller or just a small EEPROM. The ability to use the transceiver in a controller-less fashion means lower cost active cable assemblies can be achieved. The chip needs just a single 3.3V supply and can operate over the temperature range -40ºC to +85ºC.

Supporting standard data rates from 1 to 10.5Gbps, the transceiver provides a single design platform for multiple protocols, helping to significantly reduce product development costs and time to market. The PHY2210 suits SFP+ active copper cables, Infiniband cables, 6.25G back planes, Fibre Channel (1G, 2G, 4G and 8G) and Ethernet (1G, 10G) networks.

The PHY2210 equalizing cable transceiver is supported by a reference module with schematics, BOM and Gerber files, SFP+ host board and GUI. Part pricing is under $5.5USD in volume.