San Jose, Calif., January 4, 2022 – Credo, a global leader in high-performance, low-power connectivity solutions for 100G, 200G, 400G, and 800G port-enabled networks, today announced the recent appointment of two new board members, Ms. Sylvia Acevedo and Mr. Manpreet Khaira. At the same time the company announced that lead board member, Mr. Lip-Bu Tan, has taken on the role of Chairman of the Board.
“I am honored to welcome these world class-leaders to the Credo board and extremely pleased that Lip-Bu has taken on the role of Chairman,” said Bill Brennan, CEO of Credo. “Continuing to develop break-through connectivity infrastructure technology is more important than ever. The proven leadership of Lip-Bu, Sylvia, and Manpreet will help guide our technology development decisions and business practices as we continue to work on delivering industry leading, high-speed solutions.”
“The creation and consumption of data continues to grow across verticals such as e-commerce, health care, education, entertainment and more. I have been working with the Credo team for several years as they have developed innovative high-speed solutions that address the wired connectivity challenges to support the exponential growth in bandwidth requirements. I am thrilled to accept the role of Chairman, and l look forward to working with the entire team, including Sylvia and Manpreet,” said Lip-Bu Tan.
About Lip-Bu Tan
Lip-Bu Tan is the Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors of Cadence Design Systems. He has been a member of the Cadence Board of Directors since 2004 and served as CEO of Cadence from 2009 to 2021, and as President from 2009 to 2017. He is also Chairman of Walden International, a venture capital firm he founded in 1987, Senior Managing Director of Celesta Capital and Senior Managing Director for Walden Catalyst Ventures. Prior to joining Cadence, Mr. Tan was Vice President at Chappell & Co. and held management positions at EDS Nuclear and ECHO Energy. He is a member of The Business Council and serves on the Board of Directors of SoftBank Group Corporation and Schneider Electric. He also serves on the Board of Trustees and the School of Engineering Dean’s Council at Carnegie Mellon University and on the University of California, Berkeley’s Engineering Advisory Board. In 2016, Mr. Tan was the recipient of the Global Semiconductor Alliance’s Morris Chang Exemplary Leadership Award.
About Sylvia Acevedo – Quote and Biography
“It is an exciting time to join the Credo board,” said Sylvia Acevedo. “Credo’s an upstart – pushing the boundaries of how we address the needs of the data infrastructure market. The leadership team has a dynamic approach to customer engagements, steeped in solid technical fundamentals, and at the same time they are building and investing in a world-class talented team to keep pushing those boundaries.”
Ms. Acevedo currently serves on the Qualcomm Board of Directors where she is a member of the governance committee. She also served as Chief Executive Officer of the Girl Scouts of the USA from May 2017 to August 2020, and as interim Chief Executive Officer from June 2016 to May 2017. She was a board member from 2008 until 2016. Prior to joining GSUSA, Ms. Acevedo served as a White House Presidential Education Commissioner. Earlier in her career, Ms. Acevedo held senior positions with IBM, Apple, and Dell. In 2018 Sylvia was listed on Forbes’ "America's Top 50 Women In Tech" and Fast Company named Acevedo one of its “100 Most Creative People in Business.” Acevedo was awarded the 2019 Hispanic Heritage Award For Leadership and was In Style’s “Number 7 on the Badass 50: Women Who are Changing the World.”
About Manpreet Khaira – Quote and Biography
“It’s exciting to join the Credo board as data creation, consumption and communication continues to increase exponentially,” said Manpreet Khaira. “This Credo team has developed a solid foundation with their SerDes technology that I believe will help them continue to gain traction as they deliver new high-speed solutions for the data infrastructure market.”
Manpreet Khaira has served as a member of the Credo Board of Directors since September 2021. Mr. Khaira was Co-founder, Chairman, President and CEO of Avnera Corporation, a manufacturer of low-power analog systems-on-chip technology for audio, voice, speech, and sensor applications which was acquired by Skyworks in August 2018. From 2018 to the present, Mr. Khaira served as Vice President and General Manager of Skyworks Solutions. He also co-founded and served as Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Mobilian Corporation, a wireless systems company, that was acquired by Intel in 2003.
About Credo
Credo is a leading provider of high-performance serial connectivity solutions for the hyperscale datacenter, 5G carrier, enterprise networking, artificial intelligence, and high-performance computing markets. Credo's solutions deliver the bandwidth, scalability, and end-to-end signal integrity for next-generation platforms requiring 25G, 50G, and 100G signal lane-rate connectivity for 100G, 200G, 400G, and 800G port-enabled networks.
For more information, please visit https://www.credosemi.com. Follow Credo on LinkedIn and Twitter.
BlueJay Retimer Chiplet with Credo's Advanced Mixed-Signal DSP Technology Enables High-Performance, Low-Power Solutions for Advanced Switching, Compute, AI, and Machine Learning Devices
San Jose, Calif., December 1, 2021 – Credo, a global leader in high performance, low-power connectivity solutions for 100G, 200G, 400G, and 800G port-enabled networks, today announced the production availability of the new 3.2Tbps BlueJay retimer chiplet. BlueJay provides robust system-level connectivity with 64 lanes of 56Gbps PAM4 LR DSP connectivity. The new device delivers low-power and system-reach performance for next-generation multi-chip-module (MCM) ASICs used in advanced switching, high-performance computing, artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning applications.
BlueJay communicates with the MCM system-on-chip (SoC) core on the host side using an ultra-low-power Bunch of Wires (BoW) die-to-die interface. The wide-bus BoW interface is optimized for the TSMC CoWoS packaging technology designed for high-performance computing applications. On the line side, the chiplet has 64 lanes of low-power 56G PAM4 LR SerDes to deliver a robust, off-package interface for the MCM, which allows for easy integration in various system-level configurations.
“Integrating chiplets allows our customers to accelerate ASIC designs with increased performance to support advanced switching, storage, high-performance computing, AI, machine learning, and service provider applications. These data intensive applications place a wide range of architectural demands on next-generation ASICs,” said Michael Girvan Lampe, Vice President of Worldwide Sales at Credo.
"BlueJay is the second Credo 3.2Tbps retimer chiplet to enter production this year. All of Credo's silicon-proven chiplets, with 56G and 112G lane rates plus SerDes DSP IP, provide ASIC designers with diverse options to achieve their time-to-market and performance objectives,” Lampe continued.
Credo's unique SerDes technology allows the BlueJay chiplet to be manufactured in TSMC's 28nm process and delivers on critical performance and low-power requirements, in contrast to competing solutions manufactured in costly advanced process technologies. Credo’s optimized device architecture enables the use of the power-efficient BoW interface, facilitating the offload of SerDes from the ASIC, and simplifying its integration on the MCM SoC.
Integrating chiplets into MCM designs accelerates ASIC innovation and the system deployment required to meet the increasing performance demands of network service providers and hyperscale data centers. By moving the on-die SerDes function off-chip, up to 30% of the ASIC die area can now be repurposed for features such as extra compute, increased switching performance, and deeper routing tables.
“Networking and data center architectures are transitioning their infrastructure from 400Gbps to 800Gbps and beyond, requiring higher-performance, lower-power ASICs that combine digital core and analog interface functionality,” said Alan Weckel, Founder and Technology Analyst at 650 Group. “However, achieving performance in a monolithic ASIC component is challenging since analog and digital process nodes advance at different rates. Multi-chip modules using Credo’s retimer chiplets decouple the analog interface from the digital core ASIC, reducing costs, lowering risk, and enabling the accelerated transition cycle.”
For more information about BlueJay and other industry-leading Credo connectivity solutions, visit https://www.credosemi.com/serdes-ip-and-chiplets.
About Credo
Credo is a leading provider of high-performance serial connectivity solutions for the hyperscale datacenter, 5G carrier, enterprise networking, artificial intelligence, and high-performance computing markets. Credo's solutions deliver the bandwidth, scalability, and end-to-end signal integrity for next-generation platforms requiring 25G, 50G, and 100G signal lane-rate connectivity for 100G, 200G, 400G, and 800G port enabled networks.
For more information, please visit https://www.credosemi.com. Follow Credo on LinkedIn and Twitter.
San Jose, Calif., November 11, 2021 –Credo, a global innovation leader in advanced connectivity solutions delivering high-performance, low-power solutions for 100G, 200G, 400G, and 800G port-enabled networks, today announced the 200G HiWire LP SWITCH Active Electrical Cable (AEC). The low-power AEC connects a server Network Interface Card (NIC) to two Top-of-Rack (TOR) switches for hitless failover. The solution architecture was jointly announced in July 2021 by Credo and Microsoft, whose SONIC Dual TOR Management Container controls the SWITCH AEC.
Data processing and storage power can be monetized but not the power consumed for data transport. Credo’s low-power LP SWITCH AECs help minimize data transport power and enable data center architectures that eliminate redundant failover server racks.
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“Power is the most important and most difficult parameter to control in hyperscale networking,” said Don Barnetson, Vice President of Product, AECs at Credo. “Thanks to Credo’s advanced purpose-built SerDes architecture, our 200G LP SWITCH AEC has doubled its speed in the last six months while staying inside the same power envelope.”
Microsoft
“As NIC speeds increase rapidly in the hyperscale datacenter, reliability must not be compromised,” said Lihua Yuan, Partner Development Manager at Microsoft. “Credo’s 50G and 100G HiWire LP SWITCH AECs are already proven and up-streamed in SONiC with the 200G LP SWITCH AEC creating a path for next-generation NIC speeds in 2022.”
NVIDIA
“Emerging trends such as AI and 5G are driving exponential growth in the performance demands of the modern data center,” said David Iles, Senior Director of Ethernet Switches at NVIDIA. “The NVIDIA Networking platform equips innovators as Credo with the network bandwidth and low latency required to supercharge the modern data center with breakthroughs such as the HiWire LP SWITCH AECs.”
Arrcus
"Reliability is more critical for telecommunication service providers than for hyperscalers," said Keyur Patel, Founder and CTO, Arrcus. “Credo’s HiWire LP SWITCH AECs provide 5x9s (99.999%) rack reliability and enable us to ensure autonomous high availability (HA) from the Arrcus Connected Edge (ACE) platform with a sub-microsecond failover."
Wiwynn
“Servers are moving to mainstream 200Gb NIC speeds in 2022 to support disaggregation and RDMA use cases,” said Steven Lu, Wiwynn’s Senior Vice President of Product Development. “Credo’s innovative 200Gb LP SWITCH cables ensure that our customers can pursue these advanced features with the highest up time server interconnect in the market.”
The HiWire LP SWITCH AEC 200 has QSFP56 (Quad Small Form Factor Pluggable) connectors with integrated Credo PCS termination. The cables support 50G, 100G, and 200G with optional speed-shifting between 56G PAM4 and 28G NRZ lanes on both the NIC and TOR ends. The new 200G AECs join Credo’s diverse HiWire family for 100G, 200G, 400G, and 800G systems and are easily identified by their trademark purple color.
For more information about HiWire LP SWITCH AECs, visit https://www.credosemi.com/credo-hiwire-lp-switch-aec-active-electrical-cable.
About Credo
Credo is a leading provider of high-performance serial connectivity solutions for the hyperscale datacenter, 5G carrier, enterprise networking, artificial intelligence, and high-performance computing markets. Credo's solutions deliver the bandwidth, scalability, and end-to-end signal integrity for next-generation platforms requiring 25G, 50G, and 100G signal lane-rate connectivity for 100G, 200G, 400G, and 800G port enabled networks.
For more information, please visit https://www.credosemi.com. Follow Credo on LinkedIn and Twitter.
San Jose, Calif., October 12, 2021 – Credo, a global leader in high-performance, low-power connectivity solutions for 100G, 200G, 400G, and 800G port-enabled networks, today announced the new 800G HiWire™ LP CLOS Active Electrical Cable (AEC) designed for distributed, disaggregated chassis (DDCs) used in hyperscale infrastructure. This 8 x 112G per lane copper cable interconnect is the first member of Credo’s 800G AEC family.
At 400G and higher, AECs offer greater signal integrity and break through the physical weight, bend radius, and range limits of passive copper Direct Attached Cables (DACs). AECs also lower the power and economic barriers of Active Optical Cables (AOCs). The hot-swappable, front-plane cables enable a data center infrastructure shift from homogenous chassis designs with tightly coupled operating systems to DDC implementations. DDC architectures deliver the freedom to mix-and-match servers, switches, and operating systems to suit specific performance, power, and price points.
“Credo sees 800G as the point where passive DACs hit the wall – they are far too thick and rigid for many customer applications and impose a high cost and engineering burden on switch manufacturers,” said Don Barnetson, Vice President of Product at Credo. “Credo’s new 800G LP CLOS AECs route like Cat6 cables and offer up to 100 times better reliability and half the power of optical cabling solutions. The future of connectivity is clearly purple.”
At just 32AWG, 800G AECs are about as thick as standard Cat6e cabling. This narrower gauge reduces cabling volume by up to 75% versus passive copper DACs. LP CLOS AECs are available in lengths up to 2.5m. Credo’s new AECs consume half as much power as optical cabling solutions and feature superior reliability with up to 100 million hours of Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF).
The LP CLOS AEC 800 PAM4 cables come in QSFP-DD800 (Quad Small Form Factor Pluggable Multi-Source Agreement Group) and OSFP (Octal Small Form Factor Pluggable) types. Integrated Credo retimers enable the cable to achieve high performance without needing additional external components, simplifying the design and lowering system cost and power.
As with all Credo AECs, the new 800G AECs are easily identified by their distinctive HiWire purple color sheath. Credo is sampling the LP CLOS AEC 800 now with general availability expected in early 2022.
For more information about HiWire 800G AECs, visit https://www.credosemi.com/credo-hiwire-lp-clos-aec-active-electrical-cable.
About Credo
Credo is a leading provider of high-performance serial connectivity solutions for the hyperscale datacenter, 5G carrier, enterprise networking, artificial intelligence, and high-performance computing markets. Credo's solutions deliver the bandwidth, scalability, and end-to-end signal integrity for next-generation platforms requiring 25G, 50G, and 100G signal lane-rate connectivity for 100G, 200G, 400G, and 800G port enabled networks.
For more information, please visit https://www.credosemi.com. Follow Credo on LinkedIn and Twitter.
New interconnect solutions for data center applications up to 800G with 112G per lane PAM4 will be demonstrated and discussed in exhibition presentations
San Jose, Calif., October 14, 2021 – Credo, a global leader in high-performance, low-power connectivity solutions for 100G, 200G, 400G, and 800G port-enabled networks, today announced its exhibition line up for HiWire™ Active Electrical Cables (AECs) at the Open Compute Global Summit . The event will be held on November 9-10 at the San Jose Convention Center and November 8-10 online.
Featured highlights include:
For information about Credo HiWire AECs, visit: https://www.credosemi.com/hiwire.
About Credo
Credo is a leading provider of high-performance serial connectivity solutions for the hyperscale datacenter, 5G carrier, enterprise networking, artificial intelligence, and high-performance computing markets. Credo's solutions deliver the bandwidth, scalability, and end-to-end signal integrity for next-generation platforms requiring 25G, 50G, and 100G signal lane-rate connectivity for 100G, 200G, 400G, and 800G port enabled networks.
For more information, please visit https://www.credosemi.com. Follow Credo on LinkedIn and Twitter.
San Jose, Calif., October 12, 2021 – Credo, a global leader in high-performance, low-power connectivity solutions for 100G, 200G, 400G, and 800G port-enabled networks, today introduced its Osprey family of second-generation Media Access Control Security (MACsec) solutions for 400G and 800G networks. The Osprey devices deliver a 40% power savings versus competing devices and allow Credo to deliver the industry’s most comprehensive family of PHY devices to support the IEEE 802.1AE MACsec and Internet Protocol Security (IPsec) standard for 10G through 400G port interconnects used in the most demanding data center environments.
Explosive datasphere growth, decentralization of users, disaggregation of hardware and operating systems, plus the acceleration of 400G+ bandwidth deployment has created a surge in demand for end-to-end data security. To satisfy this demand, data needs to be secured when it is processed, stored, and in transit in-between connected devices. In addition, encryption must occur without throughput loss and be accomplished within a low-power envelope.
“Credo is extending our established MACsec leadership with the lowest power MACsec solutions in the industry — the new Osprey 400 and Osprey 800. Osprey devices consume 40% less power than competing devices with the same throughput,” said Scott Feller, Vice President, Marketing at Credo. “The ability to deliver solutions that enable 400G-800G secure connectivity, within the defined power envelope, is the reason hyperscale cloud data centers worldwide have selected Credo MACsec solutions,” Feller continued.
Credo’s high-speed Osprey MACsec devices address security requirements for various Ethernet data link configurations in next-generation, mission-critical network infrastructure for commercial, institutional, and government deployments. The latest 256-bit Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) cipher technology is integrated to deliver increased data security to critical high-speed data links between servers, switches, and routers. Osprey devices are Cryptographic Algorithm Validation Program (CAVP) certified by the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
MACsec devices are used in hyperscale, cloud, enterprise, and edge data centers and service provider networks to encrypt data connectivity. With the growing reliance on the cloud for company operations, the importance of end-to-end security is increasing every day. In the Ethernet Switch (L2) and Routing market (L3/L3+), the interest in MACsec increases with each speed transition.
“There is a higher attach rate of MACsec with 400 Gbps products compared to 100 Gbps. We expect with the data center rapidly moving towards 100G per Lambda and 112 Gbps SerDes that MACsec will play a pivotal and significant role in the 400Gbps and 800 Gbps markets,” said Alan Weckel, Founder and Technology Analyst at 650 Group. “The need to minimize power consumption without sacrificing performance is as great as the need for encryption as data centers scale up.”
The Osprey 400 and Osprey 800 devices are in mass production. For more information about the Osprey products, visit:
Osprey 400, https://www.credosemi.com/line-card-osprey-400Osprey 800, https://www.credosemi.com/line-card-osprey-800
For information about Credo’s other MACsecs and the full line of Retimers and Gearboxes, visit: https://www.credosemi.com/line-card.
About Credo
Credo is a leading provider of high-performance serial connectivity solutions for the hyperscale datacenter, 5G carrier, enterprise networking, artificial intelligence, and high-performance computing markets. Credo's solutions deliver the bandwidth, scalability, and end-to-end signal integrity for next-generation platforms requiring 25G, 50G, and 100G signal lane-rate connectivity for 100G, 200G, 400G, and 800G port enabled networks.
For more information, please visit https://www.credosemi.com. Follow Credo on LinkedIn and Twitter.
Shenzhen, China and San Jose, Calif., September 8, 2021 – Credo, a global innovation leader in advanced connectivity solutions delivering high performance, low power connectivity solutions for 100G, 400G, and 800G port-enabled networks, today announced a second generation HiWire LP SPAN AEC (Low Power SPAN Active Electrical Cable) family. The new LP SPAN family reduces power and increases reach.
The hot-swappable LP SPAN AEC is a reliable, plug and play replacement of Active Optical Cables (AOC) for high-speed interconnects up to 400Gbps at approximately half the power and lower cost. LP SPAN AECs are easier to deploy than DACs due to their longer reach, lighter weight, and tighter bend radius. It’s designed for rack-to-rack connectivity, especially in Distributed Disaggregated Chassis (DDC) implementations.
400G LP SPAN AECs are terminated with QSFP-DD modules and support 8x56G lanes while 200G LP SPAN AECs are terminated with QSFP65 modules and support 4x56G lanes. The cables use PAM4 modulation at both ends and have integrated retimers.
For more information about HiWire SPAN AECs, visit https://www.credosemi.com/hiwire.
About Credo
Credo is a leading provider of high-performance serial connectivity solutions for the hyperscale datacenter, 5G carrier, enterprise networking, artificial intelligence, and high-performance computing markets. Credo's solutions deliver the bandwidth, scalability, and end-to-end signal integrity for next-generation platforms requiring 25G, 50G, and 100G signal lane-rate connectivity for 100G, 200G, 400G, and 800G port enabled networks.
For more information, please visit https://www.credosemi.com. Follow Credo on LinkedIn and Twitter.
Fully IEEE compliant products come with excellent performance and power, and address the need for low cost-per-bit and short lead times.
Shenzhen, China and San Jose, Calif., September 8, 2021 – Credo, a global innovation leader in advanced connectivity solutions delivering high performance, low power connectivity solutions for 100G, 400G, and 800G port-enabled networks, today announced Seagull 110 and Seagull XR8 PAM4 DSPs. The pair of products expand Credo’s SEAGULL Family and together enable high-performance 50/100/200/400Gbps applications in hyperscale data centers.
Seagull 110 is a 2x53Gbps PAM4 retimer, while Seagull XR8 is an 8x53Gbps PAM4 retimer. Both devices are backward-compatible and support legacy data rates.
Seagull 110 is ideal for 1:2 breakout AOC or transceiver links between servers with 53G PAM4 interfaces and top of rack or end-of-row switches. Seagull XR8 enables VCSEL-based 400Gbps PAM4 solutions, providing a cost-effective alternative to current single-mode fiber based fiber connectivity within the rack. In addition, with 1:2, 1:4 or 1:8 breakout options, Seagull XR8 provides flexible options for interconnect and network density.
Seagull DSPs utilize Credo’s innovative design architecture enabling low-power dissipation and excellent performance. Both devices integrate a high-performance digital signal processor (DSP) to compensate signal impairments for low optical sensitivity and BER floor. Other features include:
The entire SEAGULL Family is fully IEEE 802.3 compliant with robust, repeatable performance and proven interoperability with different optical link partners and switch/ASICs.
“Next-generation data centers need continuous innovation to enhance product performance while lowering the overall cost-of-ownership and cooling requirements,” said Scott Feller, Vice President, Marketing at Credo. “Increased data traffic leads to continued data center growth accompanied by need for assurance of supply. Credo’s new DSPs address all customer requirements in one solution and perfectly suit both optical transceiver and AOC applications”, Scott continued.
Both Seagull 110, CFD30201, and Seagull XR8, CFD60801, are available for immediate production shipments.
For more information about Credo optical DSPs, visit https://www.credosemi.com/optical.
About Credo
Credo is a leading provider of high-performance serial connectivity solutions for the hyperscale datacenter, 5G carrier, enterprise networking, artificial intelligence, and high-performance computing markets. Credo's solutions deliver the bandwidth, scalability, and end-to-end signal integrity for next-generation platforms requiring 25G, 50G, and 100G signal lane-rate connectivity for 100G, 200G, 400G, and 800G port enabled networks.
For more information, please visit https://www.credosemi.com. Follow Credo on LinkedIn and Twitter.
Low power optical DSP solutions up to 800G for data center and wireless infrastructure will be presented at this annual Shenzhen event.
Shenzhen, China and San Jose, Calif., August 17, 2021 – Credo, a global innovation leader in advanced connectivity solutions delivering high performance, low power connectivity solutions for 50G, 100G, 200G, 400G, and 800G port-enabled networks, today announced the broad line up of optical DSPs for data centers and wireless infrastructure connectivity to be presented and demonstrated at the 23rd China International Optoelectronics Exposition (CIOE 2021).
Credo will host customers, visitors, and media at its exhibit located in Exhibition Hall 6, booth 6C13. CIOE 2021 will be held in Shenzhen, China, in the Shenzhen World Exhibition & Convention Center on September 16-18.
Optical DSPs solutions for data center and wireless infrastructure applications that will be demonstrated and presented at private showings by Credo experts include:
To schedule a meeting with Credo, contact your local Credo representative.
Other solutions, including Credo’s HiWire™ Active Electrical Cables, will also be on display.
For more information about Credo optical DSPs, visit https://www.credosemi.com/optical.
About Credo
Credo is a leading provider of high-performance serial connectivity solutions for the hyperscale datacenter, 5G carrier, enterprise networking, artificial intelligence, and high-performance computing markets. Credo's solutions deliver the bandwidth, scalability, and end-to-end signal integrity for next-generation platforms requiring 25G, 50G, and 100G signal lane-rate connectivity for 100G, 200G, 400G, and 800G port enabled networks.
For more information, please visit https://www.credosemi.com. Follow Credo on LinkedIn and Twitter.
CREDO WILL PRESENT THE SONIC / HIWIRE SWITCH AEC IMPLEMENTATION AT WEBINARS WITH MICROSOFT ON JULY 21/22, 2021.
San Jose, Calif., July 15, 2021 – Credo, a global innovation leader in advanced connectivity solutions delivering high performance, low power connectivity solutions for 100G, 400G, and 800G port-enabled networks, today announced the production availability of its HiWire™ SWITCH Active Electrical Cable (AEC). A SWITCH AEC enables a server to connect to two Top-of-Rack (TOR) switches without impacting the server or Network Interface Card (NIC).
Today’s servers deployed with single TORs provide less reliability and thus must be paired with Hot Spare Servers in different racks. Credo’s advanced AEC technology enables the transformation of data centers to move to dual TOR deployments, eliminating the need for Hot Spare Racks for improving single rack reliability. Hyperscale operators can retire their Hot Spare Racks or use them to expand their revenue pool.
The Network Operating system, SONiC, fully controls the SWITCH AEC. The NOS can seamlessly switch connections between an Active- and Standby-TOR in less than 1 microsecond, without any intervention from the server or Guest OS. Credo and Microsoft will present the SWITCH AEC implementation and how NOS-controlled connectivity technology is up-streamed in SONiC at a pair of webinars hosted by Alan Weckel of 650 Group:
Credo’s HiWire SWITCH AEC family of 1 (NIC-side) : 2 (TOR-side) Y-split cables are available in volume production in two configurations:
These plug & play HiWire AECs, recognizable in the Credo purple jacket with an LSZH flame-retardant coating, are hot-pluggable and have a low power consumption of less than 5W. A BER < 10^-12 (without FEC) is supported. The cables are flexible 32AWG copper in lengths from 0.5m to 2.0m.
“Credo’s HiWire SWITCH AECs are accelerating the adoption of dual TOR technology by overcoming complex and slow legacy enterprise approaches and dramatically simplifying deployment at Hyperscale,” said Alan Weckel, principal at the 650 Group.
“Our SWITCH AECs, coupled with SONiC’s upstreamed features, promises to open the door to Hyperscaler adoption of dual TOR architectures.” stated Don Barnetson, Vice President, Product at Credo. “AECs have proven invaluable to hyperscalers at solving a wide range of problems from cable thickness and reach to speed-shifting and now redundancy. We’re just scratching the surface of the capabilities of AECs and all they deliver – by simply adding a plug and play cable,” Barnetson continued.
“Reliability has become a key differentiator in the Hyperscale datacenter. Credo’s HiWire SWITCH AECs integrated with SONiC provides users a different choice to enable dual TOR for servers to improve reliability,” said Lihua Yuan, Partner Dev Manager, at Microsoft.
For more information about the HiWire SWITCH AECs and other Credo AEC solutions, visit www.credosemi.com/hiwire.
About Credo
Credo is a leading provider of high-performance serial connectivity solutions for the hyperscale datacenter, 5G carrier, enterprise networking, artificial intelligence, and high-performance computing markets. Credo's solutions deliver the bandwidth, scalability, and end-to-end signal integrity for next-generation platforms requiring 25G, 50G, and 100G signal lane-rate connectivity for 100G, 200G, 400G, and 800G port enabled networks.
For more information, please visit https://www.credosemi.com. Follow Credo on LinkedIn and Twitter.
San Jose, Calif., May 18, 2021 – Credo, a global innovation leader in advanced connectivity solutions delivering high performance, low power connectivity solutions for 100G, 400G, and 800G port-enabled networks, today announced the production availability of Nutcracker, the industry's first low-power 3.2Tbps retimer XSR-enabled high-speed connectivity chiplet with 112Gbps lane rates. The new device is optimized for low power and system reach performance in next-generation multi-chip-modules (MCM) ASICs for advanced switching, compute, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and CPO applications.
Nutcracker has 32 low-power lanes of 112G XSR SerDes on the host side, which communicate with the in-module system-on-chip (SOC) core ASIC. The chiplet has 32 lanes of low-power 112G MR+ reach-optimized DSP to provide the off-module interface on the line side.
Credo's unique DSP technology allowed the development of the low-power 32x112Gbps XSR to 32x112Gbps MR+ retimer die in TSMC's 12nm process. In contrast, alternative solutions will require the usage of more costly 7nm or 5nm nodes.
Credo optimized the architecture to enable SOC ASIC providers to maximize their core processing functionality through the area- and power-efficient XSR interfaces. Nutcracker delivers a robust, off-package interface for the MCMs, which allows for easy integration in various system-level configurations.
Integrating chiplets into MCM designs accelerates ASIC innovation required to meet the increasing performance demands of switching, storage, service providers, high-performance computing, artificial intelligence, and machine learning devices.
"We developed and commercialized Nutcracker in a strategic collaboration with a large, Fortune 200 customer," said Jeff Twombly, Vice President of Business Development at Credo. "Nutcracker is now the leading solution for next-generation ASIC deployments requiring heterogeneous MCM approaches to achieve the performance scale demanded across all technology industries, including emerging co-packaged optics in the data center," Twombly continued.
"Credo's Nutcracker XSR chiplet is an important building block to next-generation ASIC designs. As the data center market moves toward higher speed 400G, 800G and beyond ASICs, the market will transition away from monolithic ASICs to MCM solutions," said Alan Weckel, Founder and Technology Analyst at 650 Group. "As the market moves towards 25.6Tbps and 51.2Tbps, we expect many ASICs to make the transition towards multi-chip-modules," Weckel concluded.
Nutcracker will be demonstrated at the 2021 TSMC Online Innovation Zone. Videos of the demonstration will be on Credo's website following the event. The Nutcracker device is in production.
For more information about Nutcracker and other industry-leading Credo connectivity solutions, visit https://www.credosemi.com/serdes-ip-and-chiplets.
About Credo
Credo is a leading provider of high-performance serial connectivity solutions for the hyperscale datacenter, 5G carrier, enterprise networking, artificial intelligence, and high-performance computing markets. Credo's solutions deliver the bandwidth, scalability, and end-to-end signal integrity for next-generation platforms requiring 25G, 50G, and 100G signal lane-rate connectivity for 100G, 200G, 400G, and 800G port enabled networks.
For more information, please visit https://www.credosemi.com. Follow Credo on LinkedIn and Twitter.
San Jose, Calif., May 13, 2021 – Credo, a global innovation leader in advanced connectivity solutions delivering high performance, low power connectivity solutions for 100G, 400G, and 800G port-enabled networks, today announced that Edison Awards selected the Owl 800 MACsec as the 2021 Gold Winner in the Security Solutions category.
Owl 800 is the 800G member of the Credo MACsec family. The device provides MACsec or IPsec functionality and operates in Retimer or Gearbox modes. As Cloud providers and Telco service providers adopt 400Gbps and look toward 800Gbps, the adoption of purpose-built MACsec is jumping. In data center networking applications, the shift to fixed CLOS architectures is increasing the adoption of MACsec, especially in the DCI layer.
End-to-end encryption is becoming more common. Where packets cross between two locations, MACsec encryption secures user/enterprise data from the moment it leaves a Cloud's data center to the moment it enters the next.
The Owl 800 (CMS550216) supports bi-directional 16x56G PAM4 to 16x56G PAM4. It is suited for both backplane and front panel applications, including cloud-scale switches, high-density routing platforms, and advanced server NIC cards.
"We're very pleased that the Owl 800 has been recognized with the prestigious award," said Scott Feller, Credo VP of Marketing. "Our MACsec makes end-to-end data integrity possible without sacrificing throughput at a time when both are critical," Feller continued.
For more information about the Owl 800, visit www.credosemi.com/line-card-owl-800.
About Credo
Credo is a leading provider of high-performance serial connectivity solutions for the hyperscale datacenter, 5G carrier, enterprise networking, artificial intelligence, and high-performance computing markets. Credo's solutions deliver the bandwidth, scalability, and end-to-end signal integrity for next-generation platforms requiring 25G, 50G, and 100G signal lane-rate connectivity for 100G, 200G, 400G, and 800G port enabled networks. Credo's HiWire™ Active Electrical Cables deliver plug-and-play 400G connectivity today that is more affordable than optical solutions and more reliable than copper. For more information, please visit https://www.credosemi.com.