Telecom Lead America: Mindspeed Technologies, a
supplier of semiconductor solutions, has extended its line of asynchronous
fully non-blocking crosspoint switches with the launch of M21605.
M21605 is a 160×160 device with two terabits per second
(Tbps) switching capacity. It incorporates features that simplify system
design, speed time to market, and ensure superior signal integrity for
demanding real-time broadcast networking applications.
The resulting bandwidth through this switch provides a
critical ingredient for broadcast equipment manufacturers who are designing and
building next-generation higher-speed systems capable of supporting serial
uncompressed UHDTV serial digital interface (SDI) covering both rates at 10.692
Gbps and 11.88 Gbps.
Mindspeed M21605 enables our customers to bring leading
edge solutions to market as they pave the way for the industry’s migration to
higher data rates, in support of emerging Ultra-High Definition TV (UHDTV)
formats,” said Gary Shah, vice president of product marketing for the
high-performance analog (HPA) business unit at Mindspeed.
Mindspeed’s 160×160 M21605 crosspoint switch combines multi-rate broadcast video routing and
switching in a single device, with each switching path operating independently
at any data rate of up to 12.8 Gbps.
The device also supports higher-density HD/3G systems by
enabling transmission of up to four 3G SDI streams or eight HD SDI streams. The
crosspoint switch is backward-compatible with lower-speed SDI interfaces,
providing a seamless migration path to higher data rates.
Mindspeed’s crosspoint switches feature integrated
signal-conditioning technology that enables them to send error-free data at
high data rates over difficult channels by compensating for signal losses
accumulated across long board traces.
Mindspeed collaborates with ASTRI for commercial-grade TD-LTE
small cell reference design
Recently, Mindspeed Technologies in collaboration
with Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research
Institute (ASTRI) demonstrated a first commercial-grade, production-ready
TD-LTE small cell reference design at Mobile World Congress Barcelona,
Spain.
