nice to see you back around the 'hood, ray. with VTSS, i wuz beginning to think:
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you know, what with xD brothers having moved away.
re: InP, i sent you this back in september; yes, i realize it's a photonic year ago on internet time:
>Peter Chadbourne, marketing manager for Sonet transmission at Lucent, said this is only the first step in a plan to mix four separate processes -- GaAs, biCMOS, SiGe and indium phosphide (InP) -- to cover a range of applications spanning 2.5 to 40 Gbits/s. By the end of the year, 10-Gbit GaAs parts will integrate drivers, limiting amps and transimpedance amps in one die. At the same time, Lucent will move to its first 10-Gbit SiGe parts, integrating clock synthesis and muxing in a transmit part and clock-data recovery and demuxing in a receive part.
By 2002, Chadbourne predicted, the SiGe process could move transmit and receive blocks to 40 Gbits/s, though the transimpedance and driver functions for 40-Gbit Sonet will have to be implemented in InP.<
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but what you found(!) confirms what Tomasetta & Co. alluded to in the most recent CC:
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like i said, i hadn't heard of the stuff back then and unfortunately, didn't follow-up with a moment's due dilly. i like the ring to Indium Phosphide though -- sounds like a righteous cocktail.
i'm doing the alterna-Green Day thing tonight. will be bar-hopping Mexican joints.
i'll will be sure to ask for a slash of InP in my margarita verde. Happy San Patricio Day!
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forgive me, it's friday.
-chris. |
