Re: [10GBT] phy parameter list
Sanjay-
I think it would be helpful to have the values from 1000BASE-T preserved on
the spreadsheet as a basis for comparison.
Thanks
Geoff
At 05:05 PM 3/26/2004 -0800, Sanjay Kasturia wrote:
>I hope all of you have recovered from the visit to Disney World, from
>the ethernet guitar music and from the wild nights at Pleasure Island.
>
>While we made good progress in arriving at an agreement on the channel
>models and on the link specification front, I am obliged to point out
>that we will need to reach agreement on a number other critical
>parameters to have a reasonably complete draft 1.0
>
>I looked through the draft that George Eisler generated by modifying the
>1000BASE-T spec and the large number of TBDs and listed some of the
>important ones in an excel spreadsheet. The spreadsheet is attached and
>I am sure Brad can help us put it on the website so it becomes a living
>document. If there are other critical parameters that should be listed
>in it, please send me email.
>
>I think participants should start thinking of presentations for the next
>802.3an meeting to make a case for specific values for the parameters
>listed in the spreadsheet.
>
>I am collecting information on how the selection was made for 1000BASE-T
>and will come up with suggestions on how we can start the process of
>comparing different phy proposals in case there isn't unanimity on all
>the parameter values right from the start!
>
>Sanjay Kasturia
>Editor, IEEE 802.3an
>
>sanjay@teranetics.com
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>
>Item # Description Current proposals
>approved
> PCS
>1 Symbol rate
>2 Modulation
>3 Frame structure
>4 Transmit encoding for FEC
>5 Transmitter bit to symbol mapping
>6 Transmit processing
>7 Transmit latency through PCS
> PMA
>8 Transmit voltage specification
>9 Transmit pulse shaping
>10 Transmit master and slave jitter specifications
>11 Transmit linearity specifications
>12 Maximum allowable transmit distortion
>13 Transmit noise floor
>14 Transmit latency through PMA
> Startup protocol
>15 state diagram for training
>16 Coefficient exchange if required
>17 Coefficient initialization if required
>18 Mode selection method if phy operates in multiple modes
> Receiver performance requirement
>19 BER or FER over specified channel models 10^-12 for
>BER, FER??
>20 Receiver latency requirement
>