Re: XAUI AC coupling
Rich,
You can add Broadcom to the "Manddatory AC-coupling" list. Without
question this will guarantee interoperability, while anything else could
possibly cause confussion.
Howard Baumer
Rich Taborek wrote:
>
> Ladies and Gentlemen,
>
> A recap of which way folks are leaning on this issue:
>
> Allow AC or DC-coupling
>
> Ed Grivna - Cypress
> Dawson Kesling - Intel
> Jeff Porter - Motorola
> Rich Taborek - nSerial
> Simon Sabato - Intel
> Tom Palkert - AMCC
> Sharam Hakimi - Lucent
> Fred Weniger - Vitesse
>
> Mandatory AC-coupling
>
> Vipul Bhatt - Finisar
> Larry Miller - Nortel
> Joel Dedrick - PMC-Sierra
> Richard Dugan - Agilent
> Justin Chang - Quake
> Ali Ghiasi - Newport Communications
> Chris Simoneaux - Picolight
> Pat Thaler - Agilent
> Geoff Thompson - Nortel
> Howard Frazier - Cisco
>
> Clearly there's no clear direction. However, as a compromise, I'm not
> averse to going in the following direction: Specify and mandate
> AC-coupled operation for XAUI. An note accompanying the coupling text
> should allow DC-coupled operation in XAUI links which meet all other
> XAUI specifications. Furthermore the overview and application subclauses
> must be modified to show cause for AC-coupling is required. The current
> test strongly suggests that DC-coupling is more appropriate (i.e.
> chip-to-chip interconnect). What say?
>
> --
>
> Best Regards,
> Rich
>
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