Intended for high speed optical communication systems, the new processor is considered strategic for the Brazilian industry that operates in this area.
Edileuza Soares
September 23, 2014 – 18:37
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The first prototype of an electronic chip with advanced technology of 40 nanometers (one nanometer equals one millionth of a millimeter), fully developed in Brazil, has just come out of the laboratories of the contributing authors, in Campinas, bound for manufacturing to test, in Taiwan.
Intended for high speed optical communication systems, the new processor is strategic for the Brazilian industry that operates in this area – which now depends on imported components, with few suppliers in the world – and for the very competitiveness of segment in the country.
This is the first result of an important project of microelectronics, started last year in CPqD, which receives financial support from the BNDES (National Bank for Economic and Social Development) and the partnership Padtec, acting as industrial actor.
With three years’ duration, the project aims at the development of an OTN (Optical Transport Network) processor for optical transport network using 40-nanometer technology.
“treatment is a design that repositions the CPqD – and Brazil – in the microelectronics scenario of high complexity, with the design of systems on chip, or SoC (system-on-a-chip), “says Juliano Rodrigues de Oliveira, manager Optical Technologies organization.
According to him, the mastery of this technology will contribute to the independence of the Brazilian manufacturer of optical equipment, and also to reduce the costs of these products.
Oliveira also highlights a the challenges of the project is to put a huge amount (16 million) of transistors, connected by wires, within a millimeter silicon device.
The role of this integrated OTN circuit is doing the manipulation and combination of signals with different transmission rates and different protocols (voice, video, image), and then transmits them at the rate of 100 Gbits per second (Gbps)
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The test chip, which is being produced by TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company.) – a leading independent manufacturers (foundry) of dedicated chips in the world – will be available in early 2015 for use in proofs of concept, which will result in the final version of the processor. It is expected that the new chip is ready for use by the industry in early 2016
CPqD is working also on another strategic project in microelectronics:. Developing a signal processor digital (DSP, its acronym in English) for optical transceiver modules with 16-nanometer technology
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