I was asked to draft a succinct objective statement for the TP2
group. Try this (with some words borrowed from Mike Lawton):
Thanks, hope to talk to everyone tomorrow. I hope to have some more
thoughts on simulation work.
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Subject: [10GMMF] Notes from 1st TP2
working group call, 7/30/04
Attendees
Petar Pepeljugoski; IBM
John Ewen; JDSU
Tom Lindsay, Norm Swenson, Bharath Jagannathan; ClariPhy
Jens Fiedler; Infineon
Mike Fukatsu; OCP
Brent Whitlock; RSoft
Nick Weiner, Ben Wilcox; PhyWorks
Sudeep Bhoja, John Jaeger, Jonathan King; Big Bear
Ryan Latchman; Gennum
Matt Traverso; Opnext
Lars Thon; Aeluros
Pete Hallemeier; Optium
Yu Sun; Optium (correction from 1st release of minutes)
Badri Gomatam; Vitesse
Others?
Notes
Discussions were based on Tom's emails of 7/29 (agenda for call) and
7/25 (project outline), as well as lindsay_01_0704. The agenda from the 7/29
email was approved.
Purpose and objectives
- A succinct statement is required. Action to Tom to draft. Cost is a
motivation. Per 7/25 email, purpose is to gather and study cost, test
methods, and penalty information and make a proposal to the LRM task
force in September. I expect refinement will continue beyond that time.
Any work from this group may be traded against work from the channel
modeling group or the new TP3 group.
- Work and proposal must include test methods. An important goal is that
test methods should be simple and practical to keep test cost low.
- This group's charter does not include launch geometries. That work is
being done as part of the channel modeling. This group's work is focused
on the time and frequency domain aspects of signals (masks, edge rates,
etc.).
- The main LRM reflector is to be used.
The high-level task list (per 7/29 email) was approved. Task order was
discussed. Cost information must be shared early so that experimental and
simulation work know where to focus. Test metrics must be proposed early to
also support experimental and simulation work.
- Propose/develop TP2 test metrics - probably required anyway; see slide
14 of lindsay_01_0704 for initial ideas
- Simulations - penalty and test metric results vs. signal
specs/characteristics
- Experimental work - penalty and test metric results vs. signal
specs/characteristics
- Develop cost models - relative costs vs. signal
specs/characteristics
- Present tradeoff data and recommendations
The scope of study must include anything that both affects cost and TP2
signaling properties. This includes laser drivers, driver to laser coupling
and packaging, laser chips, and optical power coupling efficiency (and
electrical drive).
Task details need development by the volunteers doing the work,
although some thoughts may be available in lindsay_01_0704. Some tasks
require inputs from other tasks, such as
- Experimental work must be guided by where cost benefits may lie.
- Simulation work must also be guided by where cost benefits may lie but
also by the practical range of parameter values determined by limits or
availability of actual hardware.
- Both experimental and simulation work require test metrics/methods to
compare their tracking with penalty results.
In general, as folks develop details for progressing their task(s),
please determine what information you need from other parts of this group or
to share within the same task. This is critical to bound and focus the
work.
Volunteers
- Cost
- TP2 test methods
- Tom Lindsay
- Jens Fiedler
- Matt Traverso
- Simulations
- Tom Lindsay
- Norm Swenson
- Jens Fiedler
- Intel (not on the call, but I know they are working on this)
- Experiments
- John Ewen
- Badri Gomatam
- Intel (not on the call, but I know they are working on
this)
More volunteers are requested! Please let me know what you are
interested in supporting. There were several folks that indicated interested
in this work that were not able to make this call.
Schedule
- Since we are trying to support the September interim, we need to know
its dates as soon as possible.
- Calls will be held ~weekly.
- Next call will be Friday 8/6 at 9 AM PDT. Same
numbers.
Comments?
Tom Lindsay
ClariPhy Communications