Chapter 1
Introduction
This board is intended to be used by customers to implement and design 10G Ethernet systems
based on transceiver host boards that support XAUI interfaces. This mezzanine card is intended to
be part of an openly sold Development Kit and can be bundled with packages of Software and IP
Cores. It will have 2 full duplex 10G SFP+ channels with a XAUI backend interface. The XAUI to
SFP+ HSMC provides a hardware platform for developing embedded systems based on XAUI
based Altera “GX” based devices. At the time of this document the devices that support XAUI are
Arria GX, Arria II GX, Stratix II GX and Stratix IV GX.
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1.1
Features
Features
shows the photo of the Dual XAUI to SFP+ HSMC board. The important features are
listed below:
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Two independent XAUI interfaces from the HSMC to the BCM8727
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Two independent SFI interfaces from the BCM8727 to SFP+ cages
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MDIO interfaces
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I2C EEPROM for HSMC identification and user data
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Si5334C clock generator
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156.25MHz reference available on SMA connectors and through the HSMC connector
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4 user bi-color LEDS for each channel (8 total bi-color LEDs)
