RE: XAUI Chip Package requirements
Hi Jonathan and Kulwant,
The specification of a device pinout is not supported in T11 Fibre Channel
standards either. I suspect that this is more of a de facto standard
issue, such as what occured with the 10-bit interface devices. We
generated a technical report that documented the signals and their
required operation, but everyone built these in the same 64-pin TQFP
package. Neither the package, pin count, or pin-order are specified
an any T11 documents.
Regards,
Ed Grivna
Vice Chairman ANSI/NCITS T11
> Kulwant,
>
> I searched the IEEE documents and found no reference to a draft pin out. I
> was worried, since Ethernet does not specify such things as pin-outs and I
> had thought that there might have been some kind of serious mistake.
>
> My guess is that you confused the IEEE specification with some proposal or
> similar work going on in 10 Gigabit Fibre Channel.
>
> jonathan
>
> Jonathan Thatcher, Principal Engineer
> Chair, IEEE P802.3ae (10 Gigabit Ethernet)
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>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Kulwant Brar [mailto:kbrar@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Friday, October 13, 2000 4:50 PM
> > To: stds-802-3-hssg@xxxxxxxx
> > Subject: XAUI Chip Package requirements
> >
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> > I have the following questions,
> >
> > 1) The current version of the draft spec lists the 289 pin,
> > 1mm pitch PBGA
> > package and pinout assignments to use for the XAUI chip. Is
> > it a finalized
> > requirement of the standard?
> >
> > 2)If there is a committed vender to provide such a package,
> > can you please
> > send a private e-mail to me.
> > (Please do not answer question2 on the reflector, since reflector
> > prohibit vender specific info)
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Kulwant Brar
> > Conexant Systems, Inc.
> >