Agere Produces Fastest SerDes Circuitry Utilizing 90 Nanometer Low-k Technology

Agere Systems, in partnership with its foundry Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), has produced a 90 nm serializer/deserializer (SerDes) device low-k technology. Agere has tested and validated the capability of the SerDes sub-blocks to meet the performance required for 12 Gbps in both NRZ and PAM-4 encoding configurations. Agere's SerDes cores are integrated in Agere ASIC system chips, standard product systems-on-a-chip, and standalone SerDes/bridge devices. The new 90 nm SerDes portfolio is expected to be available for customers to design in their next generation ASICs in the summer of 2004.


Agere's SerDes cores are integrated in Agere ASIC system chips, standard product systems-on-a-chip, and standalone SerDes/bridge devices. The new 90 nm SerDes portfolio is expected to be available for customers to design in their next generation ASICs in the summer of 2004.
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