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Active Optical CablesLow Cost interconnects & Proving Ground
for Advanced Technologies
“SuperComputers to SmartPhones”
Brad SmithSr. VP LightCounting
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What is an Active Optical Cable?• Parallel optic transceiver in a standard MSA shell but… integrates
the fibers directly into the MSA• No optical connectors• Changes the game!
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Molex
Finisar
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AOC
Parallel OpticsModules
Initial Thinking: AOCs Will Have a Small ImpactInitial Thinking: AOCs Will Have a Small Impact
SONET, ETHERNETTransceivers
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AOC
Parallel OpticsModules
InfiniBand
Fiber Channel
Ethernet
Optical SASOptical PCI Express
Potential to Impact a large % of transceiver designsImpacting manufacturing costs and feature/performance
Initial thinking: AOCs small impact
AOCParallelOpticsModules
Disruptive: AOCs Will Impact All Traditional TransceiverMarkets and Technologies
Disruptive: AOCs Will Impact All Traditional TransceiverMarkets and Technologies
Consumer: HDTV, PCsChip-to-chipBoard-to-board
System internals
Main driving forces:- Lower CapEx costs- Reduced Opex (power + cleaning)- Copper-like Plug&Play
SmartPhonesTablets
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3 Fundamental Particles in Communications
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1) Electron - copper2) Photon – optics
3)Moneyatron
Moneyatron – is the God Particle!
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What Makes an AOC Special?• Less expensive - to make an interconnection than using transceivers and
connectorized fiber
• Fiber attach: Interfacing fibers to lasers & detectors is difficult & expensive– Can represent 15% of transceiver cost
• Testing: Optical testing of transceivers >40% of the cost of manufacturing: AOCs aretested with electrical testing
• Fast time-to-market: 10+ AOC vendors 4x10G QSFP 9-12 months later only 4-5 paralleloptic transceiver vendors
• Interoperability: Designs do not have to be interoperable
Engineers are free to design with any technology
Interoperability:Designs donot have tobeinteroperable
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LV"What goes on in the cable - stays in the cable!"
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AOC Technology PlaygroundUnintended Consequences
• 10G Parallel Optics typically employs standard 850nm VCSELs, and TIA,Laser Drivers, with MMF at ~100m
• AOC became a playground for new technologies to come to marketwithout having to deal with interoperability issues and industrystandards
• Wavelengths: 850, 1060, 1490, 1550nm• VCSELS & externally modulated CW lasers up to 25G………40G?• MMF, SMF and Polymer fibers• Reaches from 200mm to 4Km• Parallel, Serial …..CWDM, DWDM• Aggregate data rates: 10G, 14G 40G, 56G, 100G, 120G, 150G, ....400G• Protocols: InfiniBand, Ethernet, SAS, PCIe, HDMI, ThunderBolt, MIPI
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1 Core AOC TechnologyCreates Multiple Products
• Multiple types– 1x10G SFP+ - 4x5G CX-4– 4x10G QSFP - 4x14G QSFP– 12x10G CXP - 12x12.5G CXP– 8 x 8G iPass
• Breakout AOCs: 4-SFP/QSFP and 3-QSFP/CXP• Embedded Optical Module (EOM) replacing SNAP12
– For inside chassis applications (no MSAs yet)
• Parallel Optical Transceivers• AOC/Transceiver: AOC with connectorized fibers• Use same parts & change the protocol: DisplayPort Optical, USB
optical, HDMI optical
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Avago
FCI
GigaLight
AlpenIOPhotonera
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AOCs First Adopted in InfiniBand Super Computer market (HPC)
Chinese Tianhe-1A>30,000 AOCs
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55 Miles of ~10,000 AOCs – IBM HPC Installation
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AOC SPREADING TO ALL KINDS OFPROTOCOLS AND MARKETS
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Cabling in the “Marketing” Brochures
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Cabling Realities
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Avago MicroPOD
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Avago’s Optical - USB 3.0 AOC
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Hitachi Cable’s, GigaLight HDMI AOCs
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10G50 meter
GigaLight4x 3.125G 300m
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Avago
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Most High-Speed InterconnectsApproaching the “10G” Speed Barrier
Most High-Speed InterconnectsApproaching the “10G” Speed Barrier
One of the biggest technical transitions in the communicationsindustry and huge opportunities for photonic interconnects
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Key Links All Crossing the “10G barrier”Key Links All Crossing the “10G barrier”Protocol <2009 2010 2011 2012 2013• InfiniBand: 10G/lane 14G 25G
QDR FDR EDR• GbE- Copper: 1G 10G …???XX
• GbE-Optical: 1G, 10G 40G ...100G• Fiber Channel: 4G, 8G 16G …32G• SAS 3G, 6G 12G• PCIExpress 5G 8G 16G• USB 480M 5G 10G
• Not likely a 40GBASE-T copper
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InfiniBand RoadMapInfiniBand RoadMap
10G – 14G -- 25G
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New Protocols: SAS
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3G – 6G -- 12G
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PCI Express Optical
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PLX Technologies AlpenIO/Samtec
Connecting PCIe subsystemsSSD arraysGPU arrays
Aprius
PCI Express Gen 2 5G/lane 1997PCI Express Gen 3 8G/lane! 2012PCI Express Gen 2 14-16G/lane? 2016
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New Technologies• New manufacturing Techniques for transceivers• Extreme low-power, Ultra-short reach AOCs for high data
rates in high RFI/EMI environments• Silicon Photonics - 1550nm/SMF and modulations rates
as high as 25G and ring oscillators as detectors• GaAs Photonics - O-Band ~1060nm/SMF, DWDM
technology; Comb Laser 12-16 channels at 10-25G• GaAs Photonics - Light Emitting Transistor integrated with
TIA, LD, in a single chip- 850nm/MMF, LED and Laser over10-30m
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Reflex: LightABLE™ OSA ModuleReflex: LightABLE™ OSA Module• LightABLE™ OSAs have the attributes that are required for dense parallel optics
– Fast optical module alignment– Modularity and planar assembly– Minimum Electromagnetic Interference (EMI)– Few components
• Optimized for high volume, low cost manufacturing
VCSEL Array
BeveledFerrule
Substrate Spacer
OpticalFiber
SiliconV-groove
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Reflex: Light On Board PackagingSolutions
Reflex: Light On Board PackagingSolutions
• Extreme high-speed interconnect solution that:– Enables “chip-to-chip” connections– Industry-standard IC packaging and PCBs– Eliminates “extra” components– Dramatically reduces total system power consumption– Allow ultra-high-speed data interconnects– Over distances NOT possible with copper
Light on Board IC package
10GbE FocalPoint Switch Package
Reflex O/E LightOnBoardHigh-speed ASIC ChipPCB
Parallel fibers
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Silicon Photonics• Integrates photonics into silicon• 2 Camps: with & without transistors integrated• Demonstrated high modulation rates 25G in 2012
and 40G later• Parallel point-to-point and CWDM technology• 2-chip solution (Silicon photonics and laser)
1550nm/SMF• Implemented as separate flip-chip laser ring• Startups: Kotura, Luxtera, LightWire, ColorChip• Big companies: Intel, HP, IBM, Fujitsu• Molex/Luxtera 4x10G AOC, SMF, 4Km• Potential products: 4x25G in QSFP; SMF, 1Km
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Intel
Luxtera
ColorChip
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GaAs Photonics -DWDM technology• Promises inexpensive DWDM in a cable - 100G to 400G• Based on GaAs Comb Laser• Generates 10-16 channels• Ring oscillators to individually modulate 10G – 25G• O-Band ~1060nm/SMF• Startup - Innolume Gmbh developing• Potentially create 16x25G AOC SMF, agg. data rate 100G-400G• Early Prototype stage
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Ring Modulators
CombLaser
1 2 N
Transmitter
N-1p+
1318 1319 1320 1321 1322 1323 1324 1325
SMF
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GaAs Photonics -LET technology
• Single chip solution with LED/LASER integrated with electronics TIA, LD andother high-speed electronics - 850nm/MMF on to single GaAs chip
• LED and Laser over 10-30m reach at 8-10G• Promises chip-to-chip interconnects, Embedded Modules and low cost AOC
competing against Direct Attach copper• Silicon Valley start-up QEOS is developing the products• Early Prototype stage
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• Light Emitting Transistor (LET)• Breakthrough from University of Illinois• LED switching speed in the diode to
past <5G for the first time breaking allprevious known limits
Heterojunction bipolar transistor where the light intensitycan be controlled by varying the base current,
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8-Inch AOCs?Ultra-Short Reach
• Most high-speed interconnects use 40nm CMOS which can support 10Gbps SerDes to serializeparallel connections into a single wire – parallel cables becomes serial
• Video: Digital cameras, Tablets, Cell Phones are transitioning from 5M pixels to 12M, 16M, 20Mpixels; 2 cameras per device
– Use high Mpixels chips instead of optical zooms
• Radios: Number of radios and data rates are increasing from 2G to 3G/4G LTE, WEDGE, etc –promise 10-15X increase in data rates
• Wifi: 802.11N going to MIMO and WiGig @ 7GHz
• All of this is pushing internal interconnects of video and subsystems past 5.6Gbps
• Creating a very high RFI environment in an already high RF environment from the 4-10 radios
• Video displays – LVDS standard is running out of bandwidth beyond 1080p
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8-Inch AOCs?Ultra-Short Reach
• iPad4, iPhone 6, 2014 class notebooks will haveserious RFI - EMI issues
• HDTVs, high-end video cameras, and othercommercial and consumer electronics will have thesame problem
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Hitachi Cable
– Mobile Interface and Media Interconnect(MIPI.org)
– 200 companies– Optical Sub Group– Gennum/Nanotech, Mixel, GDA, Cosmic Circuits,
VLSI, Faraday Tech, North West Logic– Silicon-Line 16mW TIAs, LD– Hitachi Cable Mini-OAC Polymer Fibers
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MIPI M-PHY Interface
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Mini Optical Active Cable Market Analysis BradSmith [email protected]
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Long runs suitedfor Optical
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Module Interconnects Transitioning to Serial(HDTV and Notebooks Example)
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Mini Optical Active Cable Market Analysis BradSmith [email protected]
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OLD LVDS Low-Speed Parallel Interconnect Schemes
MEW MIPI/USB Serial Optical Interconnect Scheme
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New Entrants + M&As Running Wild!• Cabling companies realizing the beginning of end of copper
for high speeds >10G
• TE Connectivity (Tyco) bought Zarlink• FCI bought MergeOptics• Molex bought Luxtera's AOC business• Samtec bought AlpenIO
• Big change: $XXB cabling companies selling transceiverscompeting against traditional transceiver cos
• New AOC vendors: Delta Electronics, GigaLight, Samtec• GigOptix & GigaLight selling AOC component kits
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Summary• The new AOC technologies coupled with the M&A activities and new
markets will change the much of the interconnect and transceiverlandscape going forward.
• 10G sound barrier is why the cabling companies bought AOCcompanies and got into the transceiver business
• Low cost AOCs spread outside InfiniBand HPCs to datacenters withEthernet, Fibre Channel, SAS, PCI Express
• AOC technologies spread inside the systems chassis.
• Spreading into consumer and commercial areas HDMI, USB, HDTV,Smartphones, Tablets, Notebooks, etc
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