RE: SONET/Ethernet clock tolerance

["David Martin" <dwmartin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Title: RE: SONET/Ethernet clock tolerance

Osamu,

You refer to an evaluation of power estimate savings if the pointer & OH functionality
list from Tim's e-mail was not included in your example. Where are the results of that
evaluation? What portion of the 55% for pointer & OH and the 45% clock tree power
consumption is eliminated? Also, what portion of the I/O would be eliminated?
Note further that you are referring to an OC-48 design, the savings will be even larger
at OC-192 rate because several of the eliminated functions scale in complexity with line rate.

...Dave

David W. Martin
Nortel Networks
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-----Original Message-----
From:   Osamu ISHIDA [SMTP:ishida@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent:   Wednesday, April 12, 2000 6:33 AM
To:     Armstrong, Tim [SKY:1I63:EXCH]
Cc:     stds-802-3-hssg@xxxxxxxx; kkawai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject:        RE: SONET/Ethernet clock tolerance




Tim,

Thank you for the precise information.  I agree that we can cut off
most of the overhead access in your WAN-PHY with SONET framer.  Thanks
to your illumination, I realized that I should estimate the consumption
power of each function block in our SDH VC-4-16c (2.5 Gb/s) Line
Terminating Chip.

Here are the rough estimation by my colleague Kenji Kawai of NTT who
designed the chip;

 25%  Pointer Manipulation & Memory holding during overhead periods
 30%  Full Overhead access
 45%  Clock distribution in the chip

He excluded the consumption power for chip I/O and hence the above
100% nearly equals 1.5 W.  Note that we have implemented very heavy
extra DCC bytes (D13-D192), and hence the 30 % should be overestimated.

From this evaluation, at least in our design and process, we will have 
relatively small impact of reduced overhead access on the total
cosumption power for the SONET line termination.

I am not sure that the result on our chip could be fair or not. 
Any additional information on this matter would be appreciated. 

Best Regards,
Osamu

At 3:20 PM -0400 00.4.11, Tim Armstrong wrote:
http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/3/10G_study/email/msg02260.html
> Osamu,
>
> Regarding the subset of SONET/SDH overhead functionality required
> by the proposed WAN-Compatible PHY: this has been described in
>
> http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/3/ae/public/mar00/figueira_1_0300.pdf
>
> and, in greater detail, in
>
> http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/3/10G_study/public/nov99/figueira_2_1199.pdf
>
> Some of the functions that are NOT needed by the WAN-Compatible PHY that
> would normally be required by STS-192 PTE are (the most significant are marked
> with an asterisk):
>
> Section Orderwire (E1) insert / extract
> User Data (F1) insert / extract
> Section DataComm (D1-D3) insert / extract
> *383 STS pointer processors
>   (192 in each of Tx and Rx direction normally required)
> *384 Line BIP-8 (B2) generators
>   (this is a big chunk: > 6144 bits of high-speed storage)
> *192 Line BIP-8 extract / compare and B2 mis-match accumulator
>   (~ 1600 bits of storage)
> Line APS bytes (K1/K2) extract / validate
> Line DataComm (D4-D12) insert / extract
> Synchronization Status Message (S1) extract / validate
> Line REI (M1) extract / accumulate
> Line Orderwire (E2) insert / extract
> Path Trace (J1) extract / message assembly / Trace Mismatch compare
> Path BIP-8 (B3) modification to support Tandem Connection
> Path User (F2) insert / extract
> Path Multiframe (H4) insert / extract
> Tandem Connection Maintenance (N1) insert / extract
>
> In addition to these data-path insert / extract functions are the
> corresponding processing functions and management registers, which
> are also NOT required.
>
> Conversion to power-dissipation/gate-count/etc will depend on
> partitioning and process.
>
> Tim Armstrong
> Nortel Networks

-----Original Message-----
From:   Osamu ISHIDA [SMTP:ishida@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/3/10G_study/email/msg02245.html
> At 4:56 PM -0500 00.4.10, Tim Armstrong wrote:
  http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/3/10G_study/email/msg02241.html




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