General Description

The VSC7212 is an 8-bit parallel-to-serial and serial-to-parallel transceiver chip used for high bandwidth interconnection between busses, backplanes, or other subsystems. A Fibre Channel and Gigabit Ethernet compliant transceiver provides up to 2.18Gb/s of duplex raw data transfer. The VSC7212 can operate at a maximum data transfer rate of 1088Mb/s (8 bits at 136MHz) or a minimum rate of 784Mb/s (8 bits at 98MHz).

Features

? ANSI X3T11 Compliant Fibre Channel and IEEE

802.3z Compliant Gigabit Ethernet Transceiver

? Over 2Gb/s Duplex Raw Data Rate

? Redundant PECL Tx Outputs and Rx Inputs

? 8B/10B Encoder/Decoder, Optional Encoder/

Decoder Bypass Operation

? “ASIC-FriendlyTM” Timing Options for Transmitter Parallel Input Data

? Elastic Buffer for Chip-to-Chip Cable Deskewing

? Tx/Rx Rate Matching via IDLE Insertion/Deletion

? Compatible with VSC7211, VSC7214 and

VSC7216

? Received Data Aligned to Local REFCLK or to

Recovered Clock

? PECL Rx Signal Detect and Cable Equalization

? Serial Tx-to-Rx and Parallel Rx-to-Tx Internal

Loopback Modes

? Clock Multiplier Generates Baud Rate Clock

? Automatic Lock-to-Reference

? JTAG Boundary Scan Support for TTL I/O

? Built-In Self Test

? 3.3V Supply, 1.0 W

? 100-pin, 14mm TQFP package