Before we move into the discussion on MCMR FEC, let’s look at high speed SerDes and how it is being adopted. The need for higher and higher bandwidth is growing, which is pushing the SerDes speed to ...

Decoder corrects up to 7 word errors; an option supporting RS(544, 514) for 100GBASE-KP4 PHY (correcting up to 15 errors) is also available . The RS100-160E core implements the FEC encoder per section ...