
Product Brief
May 2000
ORCA
® OR T4622 Field-Programmable System Chip (FPSC)
Four Channel x 622 Mbits/s Backplane Transceiver
Introduction
Lucent Technologies Microelectronics Group has
developed a solution for designers who need the
many advantages of FPGA-based design implemen-
tation, coupled with high-speed serial backplane data
transfer. The 622 Mbits/s backplane transceiv er
offers a clockless, high-speed interface for interde-
vice communication on a board or across a back-
plane. The built-in clock recovery of the ORT4622
allows for higher system performance, easier-to-
design clock domains in a multiboard system, and
fewer signals on the backplane. Network designers
will benefit from the backplane transceiver as a net-
work termination device. The backplane transceiver
offers SONET scrambling/descrambling of data and
streamlined SONET framing, pointer moving, and
transport overhead handling, plus the programmable
logic to terminate the network into proprietary sys-
tems. For non-SONET applications, all SONET func-
tionality is hidden from the user and no prior
networking knowledge is required.
Embedded Core Features
■Implemented in an
ORCA
Series 3 FPGA array.
■Allows wide range of applications for SONET net-
work termination application as well as generic
data moving for high-speed backplane data trans-
fer.
■No knowledge of SONET/SDH needed in generic
applications. Simply supply data, 78 MHz clock,
and a frame pulse.
■High-speed interface (HSI) function for clock/data
recov ery serial backplane data transfer without
external clocks.
■HSI function uses Lucent Technologies Microelec-
tronics Group’s proven 622 Mbits/s serial interface
core.
■Four-channel HSI function provides 622 Mbits/s
serial interface per channel for a total chip band-
width of 2.5 Gbits/s (full duplex).
■LVDS I/Os compliant with
EIA
*-644, support hot
insertion.
■8:1 data multiplexing/demultiplexing for 77.76 MHz
byte-wide data processing in FPGA logic.
■On-chip phase-lock loop (PLL) clock meets B jitter
tolerance specification of ITU-T Recommendation
G.958 (0.6 UIp-p at 250 kHz).
■Powerdown option of HSI receiver on a per-
channel basis.
■Highly efficient implementation with only 3% over-
head vs. 25% for 8B10B coding.
■In-Band management and configuration.
■Streamlined pointer processor (pointer mover) for
8 kHz frame alignment to system clocks.
■Built- in boun dry scan (
IEEE
† 1149.1 JTAG).
*
EIA
is a re
istered trademark of Electronic Industries Associa-
tion.
†
IEEE
is a re
istered trademark of The Institute of Electrical and
Electronics En
ineers, Inc.
Table 1.
ORCA
ORT4622—Available FPGA Lo
ic
* The embedded core and interface are not included in t he above
ate counts. The usable
ate count ran
e from a lo
ic-onl
ate count to
a
ate count assumin
30% of the PFUs/SLICs bein
used as RAMs. The lo
ic-onl
ate count includes each PFU/SLIC
counted as
108
ates per PFU/SLIC
, includin
12
ates pre-LUT/FF pair
ei
ht per PFU
, and 12
ates per SLC/FF pair
one per PFU
. Each of the
four PIOs per PIC is counted as 16
ates
two FFs, fast-capture latch, output lo
ic, CLK drivers, and I/O buffers
. PFUs used as RAM are
counted at four
ates per bit, with each PFU capable of implementin
a 32 x 4 RAM
or 512
ates
per PFU.
Device Usable
S
stem
Gates*
Number of
LUTs Number of
Re
isters Max User
RAM Max User
I/Os Arra
Size Number of
PFUs
ORT4622 60K—120K 4032 5304 64K 259 18 x 28 504