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This video is part of TechXchange Talks and TechXchange: IoT & Narrowband Communications
An important aspect of cloud communications and IoT data transfer is the timing. Clock timing and data transmission are inextricably linked, and without synchronization nothing can be sent. Semtech’s Tri-Edge PAM4 clock and data recovery (CDR) technology is presented as the first low-power solution available for optical communication links from 100 m to 10 km.Tri-Edge builds on the company's ClearEdge non-return-to-zero (NRZ)-based CDR platform—it's an analog-based PAM4 CDR platform optimized for optical interconnect.
The quad PAM4 Tri-Edge GN2555 CDR with integrated directly modulated laser (DML) drivers is designed for 53.125-Gb/s signal conditioning within pluggable optical modules. It includes proprietary DML compensation to enable a wide range of low-cost DML options with fully adaptive input equalization. We talk with Semtech's Raza Khan about data timing and the company's solutions.
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