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The VSC9180 is a multi-rate SONET/SDH
transceiver with support for working and
protection hitless backplane 1+1 protection.
It is designed to serialize four STS-12/STM-
4 signals, or byte interleaved SONET/SDH
data from 4-bit 622MHz or 16-bit 155MHz parallel buses onto
redundant 2.5Gb/s serial backplane outputs. It also receives two
synchronous and serial STS-48/STM-16 signals, recovers the
clock, deskews them and then allows hitless selection between
the two. Selection criteria can be derived from BER monitoring,
in-frame status or signal integrity monitoring. The selected
signal is deserialized to a 4-bit 622MHz bus, a 16-bit 155MHz bus
or quad STS-12’s operating at 622Mb/s.
G E N E R A L D E S C R IP T I O N :
VSC9180 Arapahoe - 2.5G SONET/SDH Backplane Transceiver
The VSC9180 can serialize a 4-bit or 16-bit byte interleaved
STS-48/STM-16 bus to working and protection 2.5Gb/s I/O
(Non Interleave mode). Alternatively it can recover four serial
STS-12 backplane signals, re-align them, and interleave them
to form a serial STS-48 signal (Interleave mode). Interleave
mode allows the VSC9180 to be used to add 2.5Gb/s
backplane connectivity to the VSC9182 40G STS-1 TSI switch,
or act as a transponder between existing serial STS-48/STM-
16 signals to serial STS-12/STM-4 backplane architectures.
TOH transparency is preserved and B1 parity is intelligently
recalculated for compatibility with the backplane BER
monitoring of adjacent devices.
VSC9180
Dual
2.5GHz
CDR
DMX
A1/A2
Align
Deinter-
leave
RXDATA[15:0]+/-
2:1
RXINB+/-
RXINA+/-
TXDATA[15:0]+/-
STS-12/STM-4
Phase Alignment
STS-48/STM-16
Interleaver
CMU
TXOUTA+/-
TXOUTB+/-
[3:0]
2:1
[15:0]
[15:0]
16-bit 155MHz
4-bit 622MHz
Retiming FIFO
[15:0]
DMX
MUX
MUX
B
E
R
ASIC
TimeStream
VSC918X
VSC9180
TimeStream
VSC9182
40G TSI
VSC9180
VSC9180
x16
4-bit
16-bit
Byte Interleaved
SONET/SDH Bus
4 x
STS-12
TimeStream Backplane
W/P STS-48
2.5Gb/s I/O
W/P STS-48
2.5Gb/s I/O
64 x
STS-12
TimeStream Backplane
STS-48
I/O
V S C 9 1 8 0 A R C H I T E C T U R E S :
V S C 9 1 8 0 B L O C K D I A G R A M :