Using SerDes in Fourth Generation Wireless Infrastructure As the network equipment infrastructure is built up for 4G there will be an demand for high serial data rates between the main control radio equipment and that in distributed base stations. Here is how to meet the high serial data rate by only ugrading the Serdes through the use of a discrete solution
Altera to offer partial reconfiguration at 28-nm FPGA vendor Altera plans to introduce several innovations for its first 28-nm chips, including partial reconfiguration, 28-gigabit-per-second transceivers and embedded hard intellectual property blocks, the company said. b
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