FlexE 2.1/2.0/1.1/1.0

The Alphawave Semi FlexE 2.1/2.0/1.0 (OmegaCORE FlexE) is cutting edge solution to the Ethernet application. It integrates seamlessly with Alphawave Semi’s MC MAC Core and provides a total multi-channel MAC and FlexE solution for data center connectivities. It supports the OIF FlexE 2.1/2.0/1.1/1.0 layer functions.

OmegaCORE FlexE

It supports up to 400G bandwidth and up to 80 MAC channels with 5G bandwidth/ subcalendar slot increment each as per standard FlexE 2.1/2.0/1.1/1.0 implementation agreement. The Core can be configured to work as independent 8 x 50G OmegaCORE FlexE, 4 x 100G OmegaCORE FlexE, 2 x 200G OmegaCORE FlexE or a single 400G OmegaCORE FlexE. The Core supports 50G, 100G, 200G and 400G PHY.

MC MAC, OmegaCORE FlexE and Serdes Example Application

Key Features

  • Support bandwidth/subcalendar slot of 5G/s or 25G/s with optional 1G/1.25G/2.5G slot with super-flexe extension
  • Support any-rate MAC client at N x 5G/s rate where N is the maximum bandwidth OmegaCORE FlexE
  • Support total aggregated bandwidth of 400G
  • Support up to 80 active MAC clients per an aggregated bandwidth of 400G
  • Support up to 256 logical MAC client
  • Support external OH insert bus and OH extract bus for management channels such as China Mobile SPN OAM, 1588 and sync messages etc

Standard Compliance

  • IEEE 802.3-2018
  • IEEE 802.3bs-2017 (200GE & 400GE)
  • IEEE 802.3cd-2018
  • OIF-FLEXE-1.0 IA to OIF-FLEXE-2.1 IA
  • China Mobile SPN specification V1.0

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