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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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