Micram Announces Broad Range of Silicon for 100G Development

First Mux/Demux Chips for OOK Modulation Among a Dozen New 100G Components
Announced at OFC 2009
SAN DIEGO--(Business Wire)--
Building on its leadership in ultrafast 100G silicon, Micram has announced an
impressive slate of new components at this week`s Optical Fiber Conference in
San Diego, including the first silicon supporting the On-Off Keying (OOK)
modulation scheme.

"Our goal in 100G is to give optical communications visionaries the tools they
need to bring their ideas to life as quickly as possible," said Matthias Tom
Frei, CEO of Micram. "Our latest range of components greatly expands what
aggressive developers can achieve over the next 12 to 18 months. In particular,
we are announcing the first silicon supporting OOK, an important electrical
modulation scheme that Micram is taking from the theoretical to the practical
with our new 112G Mux/Demux chips."

12 New 100G Development Chips

In its new range of silicon, Micram provides several varied multiplexer,
demultiplexer and MSDFF components supporting the 30 Gb/s and 60 Gb/s speed
ranges. The MX4130F 4:1 Mux breaks new ground by providing a FPGA control layer,
enabling very high speed data streams to be generated by off-the-shelf FPGAs
from Xilinx and Altera.

Also new from Micram are a series of single and quad transimpedance amplifiers
(TIA) supporting both 3.3V and 5.2V applications, as well as a clock
distribution module and frequency divider chip.

Mux/Demux
-- CDR14112 112 Gb/s CDR with 1:4 Demux with integrated VCO & PLL
-- MX41112 112 Gb/s 4:1 Mux
-- DMX1460 60 Gb/s 1:4 Demux
-- MX4130F 30 Gb/s 4:1 Mux with FPGA interface (Xilinx Virtex 4/5 & Altera Stratix-IV)

MSD Flipflops
-- DFF30 30 GHz Master-Slave D-Flipflop
-- DFF60 60 GHz Master-Slave D-Flipflop

Transimpedance Amplifiers
-- TIA5633 56 Gb/s TIA (3.3V)
-- TIA5652 56 Gb/s TIA (5.2V)
-- TIA4C-5633 56 Gb/s Quad TIA (3.3V)
-- TIA4C-5652 56 Gb/s Quad TIA (5.2V)

Clock Distribution Module
-- CD15 15 GHz versatile clock distribution module (enables syncing of several DACs or ADCs and provides clocks for FPGAs)

Frequency Divider
-- FD60 60 GHz frequency divider with selectable ratio (2 to 256)

VEGA Ultrafast DAC Live Demonstration

Also at OFC this week, Micram is teaming with test and measurement leader LeCroy
Corporation to demonstrate both the Micram VEGA DAC 25`s superior performance in
real-time signal generation and the unique capabilities of the LeCroy WaveMaster
sampling oscilloscopes in measuring that remarkable performance.

In the live demonstration, signals generated by the VEGA DAC 25 are captured,
displayed and measured by a LeCroy WaveMaster 8 Zi, the world`s fastest, highest
bandwidth real-time digital oscilloscope and one of very few test devices that
can keep up with the extraordinary performance of Micram VEGA.

Micram VEGA DAC 25 and ADC 30 signal converters are the fastest on earth,
delivering up to a 60 GS/s conversion rate at 20 GHz bandwidth. This scorching
performance delivers full 100GbE bandwidth today, enabling developers to make
significant progress now, not years into the future.

While at OFC, visit Micram at Booth 411, in the German Companies Pavilion.

About Micram

Founded in 1991, Micram is the longest-established high-speed silicon design
group in Europe and the creator of 12 world record-breaking telecommunications
components. Micram maintains offices at its home Bochum, Germany, in Burlingame,
California USA, and in Auckland, New Zealand.

Micram
Paul De Zan, +1-650-678-0389
Fax: +1-832-747-4133
paul.dezan@micram.com

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