MACOM Announces Industry’s First Analog CDR-Based PAM-4 Portfolio

• Portfolio targeted for compliance with the newly formed Open Eye
  MSA enabling 50Gbps to 400Gbps optical modules
• Builds on MACOM’s pre-eminent position in high-performance CDRs,
  drivers and TIAs, enabling lower cost, lower power and lower latency
  data center interconnects
• Companion 200G FR4 L-PICs to provide requisite performance at the
  cost comparable to current 100G CWDM4 solutions
• Production Samples available today, enabling a smooth migration to
  next generation connectivity

LOWELL, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–MACOM
Technology Solutions Inc. (“MACOM”), a leading supplier of
semiconductor solutions, today announced a complete analog and silicon
photonics portfolio for seamless integration in 50Gbps, 100Gbps, 200Gbps
and 400Gbps optical modules targeted for compliance with the newly
formed Open Eye Multi-Source Agreement (MSA) www.openeye-msa.org.

Optimized for volume-scale deployment in high-density Cloud Data Center
links, MACOM’s components will enable faster, lower cost and more power
efficient optical modules as defined by the upcoming Open Eye MSA
industry standard.

MACOM’s end-to-end transmit and receive portfolio features low-cost,
low-power extensions to its existing lineup of Clock and Data Recovery
(CDRs), drivers and (Transimpedance Amplifiers (TIAs), adding a
companion integrated 200G FR4 L-PIC optimized to reduce customers’
module costs through dramatically improved ease of assembly, calibration
and test. These components are designed to eliminate the need for
expensive, power-hungry signal processing and 53Gbps EMLs, enabling
streamlined optical module architectures targeted for 200G and 400G
connectivity.

MACOM’s full CDR-based and L-PIC-based portfolio comprises the
MAOM-38053 four-channel transmit PAM-4 CDR with an integrated driver,
and an L-PIC transmitter and on the receive side, features a MATA-03819
quad TIA, MACOM BSP56B photodetectors and the MASC-38040 four-channel
receive PAM-4 CDR. This approach is anticipated to deliver over 25%
reduction in power consumption while simultaneously driving the cost per
gigabit down as compared to today’s CWDM4 and digital signal processing
(DSP)-based PAM-4 solutions. Cloud customers can now double their link
rate with only minor, incremental power and cost.

“MACOM is proud to be part of an ecosystem that enables seamless
component interoperability among a broad group of industry-leading
technology providers, including providers of electronics, lasers and
optical components,” said Preet Virk, Senior Vice President and General
Manager, Networks, MACOM. “MACOM is committed to enabling the Open Eye
MSA’s charter, in part by leveraging our comprehensive portfolio of
high-performance analog components and L-PICs to help customers achieve
optimal performance, power efficiency and cost structures. We believe
that our extensive application expertise and industry leadership in
PAM-4 enabling technologies will help to ensure a seamless migration
from 100G CWDM4 to industry-standard 200G and 400G PAM-4 module
architectures.”

The Open Eye MSA group aims to accelerate the adoption of data center
interconnects scaling to 50Gbps, 100Gbps, 200Gbps and 400Gbps by
expanding existing standards to enable optical module implementations
using multiple technologies including optimized CDR-based architectures
in addition to existing DSP architectures.

All of the MACOM products highlighted in this CDR and LPIC-based
portfolio are sampling to customers today. For more information about
MACOM’s Cloud Data Center connectivity components, please visit https://www.macom.com/data-center.

ABOUT MACOM: MACOM enables a better-connected and safer world by
delivering breakthrough semiconductor technologies for optical, wireless
and satellite networks that satisfy society’s insatiable demand for
information.

Today, MACOM powers the infrastructure that millions of lives and
livelihoods depend on every minute to communicate, transact business,
travel, stay informed and be entertained. Our technology increases the
speed and coverage of the mobile Internet and enables fiber optic
networks to carry previously unimaginable volumes of traffic to
businesses, homes and datacenters.

Keeping us all safe, MACOM technology enables next-generation radars for
air traffic control and weather forecasting, as well as mission success
on the modern networked battlefield. MACOM is the partner of choice to
the world’s leading communications infrastructure, aerospace and defense
companies, helping solve their most complex challenges in areas
including network capacity, signal coverage, energy efficiency and field
reliability, through its best-in-class team and broad portfolio of
analog RF, microwave, millimeterwave and photonic semiconductor products.

MACOM is a pillar of the semiconductor industry, thriving for more than
60 years of daring to change the world for the better, through bold
technological strokes that deliver true competitive advantage to
customers and superior value to investors.

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management standard. MACOM has design centers and sales offices
throughout North America, Europe and Asia.

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