[139193] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: XGMII interface
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (yifeng zhou)
Tue Mar 29 08:52:33 2011
In-Reply-To: <4D91D239.8010303@bogus.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 15:52:28 +0300
From: yifeng zhou <zhuifeng0426@gmail.com>
To: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Thanks Joel. Now i can understand :)
2011/3/29 Joel Jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
> check your xgmii specs...
>
> it's ddr so there is a bit on both clock rise and fall.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10_Gigabit_Media_Independent_Interface
>
> On 3/29/11 5:27 AM, yifeng zhou wrote:
> > Dears:
> >
> > As in IEEE 802.3 clause 46, in 10G Ethernet, RS and PCS may use XGMII
> > interface to inter-connect.
> >
> > XGMII interface is a 32-bit wide, transmit & receive data path, working
> on
> > frequency of 156.25HZ. So, for transmit direction, the total transmit
> rate
> > should be 32*156.25=5Gbps, how 10G works with this interface?
> >
> > Further, on PMA, the transmit rate become 312.5M characters per lane..
> how
> > done this number come?
> >
> > thanks!
> >
>
>
