Intersil有源电缆集成电路解决方案概要Intersil Signal Integrity & Power Management Products
Intersil’s active cable IC solution
designed to support Thunderbolt
technology
What is Thunderbolt?
Thunderbolt is a recently introduced advanced high-speed
I/O interface for the consumer PC industry. It consists of
two differential 10.3125 Gbps full-duplex lanes and is used
to tunnel PCI Express and DisplayPort protocols over a
thin copper cable up to 3 meters long, or a long fiber optic
cable.
Thunderbolt technology enables flexible new designs by
allowing multiple, high-performance, PCI Express and
DisplayPort devices to attach to a PC through a single
physical connector, eliminating the need for multiple I/O
ports on a PC.
The PCI Express interface of Thunderbolt controllers allows
PC’s to be connected to a wide variety of native P……