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VPPD-02993. 1.1. 4/16
Host/Client
Line
PLL
Clocking Network for Timing and Retiming (including SyncE support)
RXAUI
XAUI
1 GbE
SPI/MDIO/
Two-Wire Serial
SPI Slave
MDIO Slave
Two-Wire
Serial Slave
Two-Wire Serial
PCS
FIFO
WIS
SFP+
KR
1GbE
RXAUI
XAUI
1 GbE
2× 2× 6.25 G
2× 4× 3.125 G
2× 4× 3.125 G
SERDES
MUX
MUX
PCS
XGXS
FIFO
PCS
SERDES
Conguration and Status Registers
Two-Wire
Serial Master
PLL
SFP+
KR
1GbE
2× 10 G
2× 1 G
Range of Support
• Compliant to IEEE 802.3ae and SFF-8431 electrical (SFI) speci-
fi cations
• 9.95 Gbps WAN and 10.3 Gbps LAN operation, as well as
1.25 Gbps Ethernet support
• Supports all standard SFP+ applications
• Support for 10GBASE-KR (IEEE 802.3ap) for 10G backplanes,
including 1.25 Gbps and 10.3 Gbps autonegotiation
• Adaptive equalization receiver and programmable, multitap
transmitter pre-emphasis
• Synchronous Ethernet support
• MDIO/SPI and two-wire serial slave management interfaces
• IEEE 1588v2/Y.1731 OAM precision timing support at
1.25Gbps and 10.3 Gbps using pin-compatible VSC8489-10
and VSC8489-13 devices
Key Specifi cations
• 875 mW typical for each bidirectional channel
• 1.2 V and 1.0 V core power supplies (2.5 V TTL supply)
Flexibility
• Failover switching and lane ordering
• VScope input signal monitoring integrated circuit
• Host-side and line-side loopbacks with BIST functions
• I/O programmability for lane swap, invert, amplitude, slew, pre-
emphasis, and equalization
• Optional forward error correction (FEC)
• Synchronous Ethernet support with fl exible clocking
• Passive copper cable support for minimum transmission cost
• Extended temperature range (–40 °C to 110 °C) using pin-
compatible VSC8489-13
• Pin compatible with VSC8489-10, VSC8489-13, VSC8490,
and VSC8491
Related Products
Visit www.microsemi.com for information about these related
products:
• VSC8490-10
• VSC8491-10
• VSC8572
• VSC8574
• VSC8584
VSC8489
Dual Channel WAN/LAN/Backplane RXAUI/XAUI to SFP+/KR 10 GbE SerDes PHY