IPtronics Goes to ECOC

ROSKILDE, Denmark -- IPtronics will exhibit world leading low power, high speed silicon for parallel optical interconnect that will drive the long awaited transition from electrical to optical in super computer and server applications. IPtronics will exhibit at ECOC2007, booth 12014 in Berlin Sept. 17th 20th. ECOC features the latest optical components, products, systems and services in the optical communications market place.

IPtronics will demonstrate its low power 4 channel VCSEL Driver and TransImpedance amplifier featuring the lowest power in the industry for next generation optical parallel transmission modules and active cables. The devices are protocol agnostic and can be used in applications such as infiniband DDR & QDR, proprietary links, 40GE and much more. Current solutions for high speed optical interconnects have been gated so far by high power silicon and data rates below 2.5Gbps per channel. IPtronics silicon will enable module manufactures to compete with copper links on mainly power dissipation, but also parameters such as cost, weight, EMI ao.

IPtronics silicon already enable module manufacturers in Japan, US and Europe to offer solutions dissipating less than 10mW/Gbps (in a transceiver application), running at up to 12.5Gbps/channel and occupying less than 13x13mm board space. This is obtained by using a state of the art SiGe technology combined with unique design know how.

“The physical layer devices are critical for reducing power consumption in the optical modules” Says Jesper Wolf Bek, Director of Sales & Marketing & Co-Owner of IPtronics “ Our chip set is currently the only silicon commercially available meeting the strict requirements from system vendors for power, density and throughput”

The devices have been developed in close cooperation with market leaders in the server and super computer ecosystem and IPtronics continue to carefully interact with market leaders in the value chain. “It is important for us to anticipate customer requirements. Therefore we engage early and closely with our customers’ customers – the system vendors” says CTO Steen Bak Christensen” This has given us our current edge on power and performance and will give us a head start on our next generation devices”.

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