Interlaken is a
royalty-free
Royalty-free (RF) material subject to copyright or other intellectual property rights may be used without the need to pay royalties or license fees for each use, per each copy or volume sold or some time period of use or sales.
Computer standards ...
interconnect
In telecommunications, interconnection is the physical linking of a carrier's network with equipment or facilities not belonging to that network. The term may refer to a connection between a carrier's facilities and the equipment belonging to its ...
protocol
Protocol may refer to:
Sociology and politics
* Protocol (politics)
Protocol originally (in Late Middle English, c. 15th century) meant the minutes or logbook taken at a meeting, upon which an agreement was based. The term now commonly refers to ...
.
It was invented by
Cisco Systems
Cisco Systems, Inc. (using the trademark Cisco) is an American multinational corporation, multinational digital communications technology conglomerate (company), conglomerate corporation headquartered in San Jose, California. Cisco develops, m ...
and
Cortina Systems Cortina Systems, Inc. was a supplier of integrated circuits (ICs) for broadband communications founded by Iranian-American entrepreneur Amir Nayyerhabibi in 2001. It is based in California.
Cortina System was bought by Inphi Corporation in 2014.
...
in 2006, optimized for high-bandwidth and reliable
packet
Packet may refer to:
* A small container or pouch
** Packet (container), a small single use container
** Cigarette packet
** Sugar packet
* Network packet, a formatted unit of data carried by a packet-mode computer network
* Packet radio, a form ...
transfers. It builds on the channelization and per channel flow control features of
SPI-4.2, while reducing the number of
integrated circuit
An integrated circuit (IC), also known as a microchip or simply chip, is a set of electronic circuits, consisting of various electronic components (such as transistors, resistors, and capacitors) and their interconnections. These components a ...
(chip)
I/O pins by using high speed
SerDes
A Serializer/Deserializer (SerDes) is a pair of functional blocks commonly used in high speed communications to compensate for limited input/output. These blocks convert data between serial data and parallel interfaces in each direction. The ter ...
technology. Bundles of serial links create a logical connection between components with multiple channels, backpressure capability, and data-integrity protection to boost the performance of communications equipment. Interlaken manages speeds of up to 6
Gbit/s
In telecommunications, data transfer rate is the average number of bits ( bitrate), characters or symbols ( baudrate), or data blocks per unit time passing through a communication link in a data-transmission system. Common data rate units are mu ...
per pin (lane) and large numbers of lanes can form an Interlaken interface. It was designed to handle high-speed (
10 Gigabit Ethernet
10 Gigabit Ethernet (abbreviated 10GE, 10GbE, or 10 GigE) is a group of computer networking technologies for transmitting Ethernet frames at a rate of 10 gigabits per second. It was first defined by the IEEE 802.3ae-2002 standard. Unlik ...
,
100 Gigabit Ethernet
40 Gigabit Ethernet (40GbE) and 100 Gigabit Ethernet (100GbE) are groups of computer networking technologies for transmitting Ethernet frames at rates of 40 and 100 gigabits per second (Gbit/s), respectively. These technologies offer significantly ...
and beyond)
computer network
A computer network is a collection of communicating computers and other devices, such as printers and smart phones. In order to communicate, the computers and devices must be connected by wired media like copper cables, optical fibers, or b ...
connections.
An alliance was formed in 2007.
Xilinxan
have both developed FPGAs that have Interlaken
hard IP built in.
References
External links
Interlaken White Paper 2007*
ttp://edageek.com/2007/01/23/sle-interlaken-ip-core/ SLE Introduces Interlaken Interconnect Protocol IP CoreOpen-Silicon Interlaken IPEE Times - Open-Silicon updates 'Interlaken' IP coreOpen-Silicon Enhances its Interlaken IP Core For Very High-Speed Chip-to-Chip Serial InterfacesOpen-Silicon Secures 20th Interlaken IP LicenseOpen-Silicon’s Interlaken IP Core Chosen for ALAXALA’s Advanced Networking Infrastructure DeviceOpen-Silicon’s Configurable Interlaken IP Core Delivers High-Performance Chip to Chip Interface for Networking Products at 28nm Process NodeOpen-Silicon Unveils Interlaken IP Core with 600 Gbps Chip-to-Chip Interface Support for Networking, Storage and High-Performance Computing ProductsOpen-Silicon’s Interlaken IP Core Selected for Netronome’s Next-Generation Flow Processors Cisco protocols
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