Optimized DSP Reduces Module Power and Cost, Enabling Robust System Performance
SAN JOSE, Calif.—Nov. 29, 2023—Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd (NASDAQ: CRDO) today announced availability of an industry first, the Dove 850 800G Digital Signal Processor (DSP) IC, optimized for Linear Receive Optics (LRO), also known within the industry as Half-retimed Linear Optics (HALO). In an LRO transceiver or Active Optical Cable (AOC), only the transmit path from the electrical input to the optical line side output includes a DSP for signal retiming and equalization. The Dove 850 is a unidirectional 8 x 112 Gb/s DSP purpose built for this LRO architecture.
As hyperscale data center AI deployments grow rapidly, high-speed optical transceivers and AOCs are critical to connecting thousands of GPUs. Given the huge volume of these optical components, improvements in energy efficiency are essential. The Dove 850 addresses this need while enabling robust system performance, with the added benefit of reducing cost.
“Dove 850 reduces DSP power by up to 50% and optimizes cost while providing customers with an easy to use, robust, and interoperable solution,” said Chris Collins, Vice President of Sales and Optical Product Marketing at Credo. “Our lead transceiver and hyperscale customers recognize the value of this solution and we have already shipped Dove 850 samples and evaluation boards to address the market need.”
Transceiver vendors can further optimize the module cost with Dove 850 by employing a variety of optics, including VCSELs, silicon photonics, EML or thin-film lithium niobate as dictated by the application requirements.
A Dove 850 based optical transceiver aims to address the inherent weakness of a Linear Pluggable Optics (LPO) implementation by facilitating IEEE compliant optical transmit signaling and easing the deployment burden on system operators by eliminating manual, per port tuning. The result is lower bit error rates, enhanced sensitivity, reduced performance variation, and improved resilience to different switch ASICs, PCB traces, optical components, and environmental conditions.
“Over the last year, LPO has been a popular topic as the industry looks for ways to reduce power consumption in datacenters. However, customer enthusiasm has been curbed because of technical limitations such as interoperability, link accountability, and the ability to troubleshoot, which drove our forecast for LPO to less than 10% of the 800GbE market,” said Scott Wilkinson, Lead Analyst for Optical Components at Cignal AI. “Credo’s Dove 850 is a half-retimed solution that addresses these limitations, consumes less power than conventional optics, and provides a clear path to 224G for 1.6 Tb/s operation. This solution should significantly expand the market for low power 800GbE solutions well beyond that of LPO."
The Dove 850 features independent PLL’s for each lane to support breakout applications, an OIF CEI-112G-MR compliant host interface, and numerous integrated diagnostic features to accelerate time to market and aid with system debug.
Dove 850 Features and Technical Benefits
Availability
Samples and evaluation boards of the Dove 850 are available immediately. Interested customers should contact: sales@credosemi.com. All Credo product offerings are supported by evaluation boards, simulation models, characterization reports, reliability reports, design libraries and a complete set of supporting documentations.
To learn more about Credo Optical products, go here.
About Credo
Our mission is to deliver high-speed solutions to break bandwidth barriers on every wired connection in the data infrastructure market. Credo is an innovator in providing secure, high-speed connectivity solutions that deliver improved power efficiency as data rates and corresponding bandwidth requirements increase exponentially throughout the data infrastructure market. Our innovations ease system bandwidth bottlenecks while simultaneously improving on power, security, and reliability. Our connectivity solutions are optimized for optical and electrical Ethernet applications, including the emerging 100G (or Gigabits per second), 200G, 400G,800G and the emerging 1.6T (or Terabits per second) port markets. Credo products are based on our proprietary Serializer/Deserializer (SerDes) and Digital Signal Processor (DSP) technologies. Our product families include Integrated Circuits (ICs) for the optical and line card markets, Active Electrical Cables (AECs) and SerDes Chiplets. Our intellectual property (IP) solutions consist primarily of SerDes IP licensing.
For more information, please visit https://www.credosemi.com. Follow Credo on LinkedIn.
SAN JOSE, Calif.—Nov. 28, 2023—Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd (“Credo”) (Nasdaq: CRDO), an innovator in providing secure, high-speed connectivity solutions that deliver improved power and energy-efficiency, today released its 2023 Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) report detailing Credo’s initiatives and efforts around environmental management, diversity, equity, and ethical conduct.
Since the company’s founding, Credo has aspired to be on the right side of history regarding how we treat our people, our community, and the environment as well as our customers, partners, and other stakeholders. The publication of our first ESG report offers a valuable opportunity to illustrate how ESG considerations are intricately woven into our operations, empowers us to set new objectives, and commemorates the strides we have taken in our role as a leader of high-performance, energy-efficient networking solutions.
Credo’s ESG report is grounded in the sense of a strong connection combined with accountability. The report outlines key ESG priorities: employee development, retention, and well-being; supply chain management; employee health and safety; business ethics; and data privacy and security.
In 2024, Credo plans to expand this list of priorities by analyzing our greenhouse gas emissions and engaging with our suppliers to create an effective carbon offset strategy.
To read the full report, please visit our ESG page.
About Credo
Our mission is to deliver high-speed solutions to break bandwidth barriers on every wired connection in the data infrastructure market. Credo is an innovator in providing secure, high-speed connectivity solutions that deliver improved power efficiency as data rates and corresponding bandwidth requirements increase exponentially throughout the data infrastructure market. Our innovations ease system bandwidth bottlenecks while simultaneously improving on power, security, and reliability. Our connectivity solutions are optimized for optical and electrical Ethernet applications, including the emerging 100G (or Gigabits per second), 200G, 400G, 800G and the emerging 1.6T (or Terabits per second) port markets. Credo products are based on our proprietary Serializer/Deserializer (SerDes) and Digital Signal Processor (DSP) technologies. Our product families include Integrated Circuits (ICs) for the optical and line card markets, Active Electrical Cables (AECs) and SerDes Chiplets. Our intellectual property (IP) solutions consist primarily of SerDes IP licensing.
For more information, please visit https://www.credosemi.com. Follow Credo on LinkedIn.
At Credo, we recognize that Generative AI and the disaggregation of traditional servers with technologies such as CXL are having a massive impact on hyperscale data centers (HSDCs).
Throughout the show, the OCP Experience Center, was an extremely popular attraction showcasing how HSDCs will be built in 2024, and provided a glimpse into how they may change in 2027 and beyond. With our “Rack and Power” focused partners, we showcased a row of compute servers with new automation technology, a leaf connectivity rack, a row of AI servers, and a spine/routing layer with full interconnect.
Attendees were able to see first-hand how connectivity can evolve to support the needs of generative AI and general compute over the next four years, including using CXL based scale-out backend networks and memory sharing via rack-scale CXL.
Click here to have Don Barnetson, VP Product, HiWire AECs, Credo, walk you through the demo
During the show, Credo introduced the HiWire Pluggable Patch Panel (P3), providing service providers and hyperscalers the freedom to decouple pluggable optics from core switching and routing hardware using Credo’s HiWire Active Electrical Cables (AECs).
Don Barnetson, VP Product, HiWire AECs, Credo announced that “the Credo HiWire P3 box allows you to decouple the optics that you are using from the switching and routers to support optics that don’t have software compatibility and routers that don’t have the power and cooling to support. You now have the choice of whichever coherent optics you want to use in your system, including up to 800G optics.”
Click here to see the HiWire Pluggable Patch Panel(P3) demo
During OCP Credo also showcased a live 1.6T OSFP-XD AEC demo that showed BER rate and a partner demo that utilized AOI modules and an EXFO tester in an 800G-SR8 OSFP demo.
Many of the hot topics during the Summits dialogues, workshops, and sessions involved AI, including VP of Product, Don Barnetson’s presentation on Generative AI and the Outsized Role of SerDes. The presentation emphasized the transformative nature of AI/ML technology and its ability to achieve up to 20 times the density of traditional front-end Ethernet solutions. SerDes technology, which constitutes around 25% of AI power consumption, was highlighted as a critical focus area for sustainability efforts, while SerDes power modes that have the potential to yield up to an additional 50% power savings, resulting in a combined opportunity to reduce SerDes power consumption by up to 75%.
Continuing the AI discussion, Credo’s session by VP of Business Development, Jeff Twombly, The Rise of Chiplets in Advanced AI/ML/HPC SoC’s, covered critical SerDes IP developments, chiplet productization, and testing considerations to enable volume at scale. The discussion included how Credo’s expertise and infrastructure is equipped to enable more chiplet variants required for emerging I/O standards, such as for UCIe. In addition to technical aspects, the presentation emphasized the importance of collaboration, and highlighted the pivotal role chiplets play in shaping the future of AI/ML/HPC innovation.
Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd, an innovator in providing secure, high-speed connectivity solutions that deliver improved power and energy efficiency as data rates and corresponding bandwidth requirements increase throughout the data infrastructure market, is excited to announce sample availability of its HiWire Pluggable Patch Panel (HiWire P3). The Credo HiWire P3 enables service providers and hyperscalers the freedom to decouple pluggable optics from core switching and routing hardware using Credo’s HiWire Active Electrical Cables (AECs).
Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd, an innovator in providing secure, high-speed connectivity solutions that deliver improved power and energy-efficiency, is excited to announce its participation in the upcoming OCP Global Summit on October 17-19, 2023 in San Jose, CA. OCP provides Credo with a platform to showcase generative AI, general compute and operator focused connectivity solutions. There will also be multiple presentations by Credo executives.
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SAN JOSE, Calif.,- Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd (“Credo”) (Nasdaq: CRDO), an innovator in providing secure, high-speed connectivity solutions that deliver improved power and energy efficiency as data rates and corresponding bandwidth requirements increase throughout the data infrastructure market, is excited to announce sample availability of its HiWire Pluggable Patch Panel (HiWire P3). The Credo HiWire P3 enables service providers and hyperscalers the freedom to decouple pluggable optics from core switching and routing hardware using Credo’s HiWire Active Electrical Cables (AECs).
The HiWire P3 is a single rack unit (1RU), 32 port QSFP-DD appliance that allows standard pluggable optics to directly connect to an AEC without the use of a switch chip. The HiWire P3 provides power, cooling, and control plane access supporting three important use cases:
“The HiWire P3 enables complete flexibility in the deployment of modern pluggable optics with new and legacy switches and routers.” Said Don Barnetson, Vice President of Product at Credo. “In the HiWire P3, all of the capabilities of the modern pluggable optics are transparently exposed to the user in an open management platform without the increased power, latency, cost and complexity of a switch.”
"Coherent optics are the future for service providers and hyperscalers, but host compatibility creates real friction in their adoption.” Said Alan Weckel, Founder and Technology Analyst at the 650 Group. “Credo’s HiWire P3 box addresses key coherent optics friction points in an open, elegant solution that is easy to deploy.”
Credo will demonstrate the capabilities of the HiWire P3 at the Open Compute Global Summit in San Jose, CA and the SCTE CABLE-TEC Expo in Denver, Colorado Oct 17-19, 2023. At the OCP Global Summit, the HiWire P3 box will be demonstrated live in Credo’s booth #B10 and integrated on Credo’s display in the Experience Center Rack and Power booth. At the CABLE-TEC Expo, Credo’s P3 will be demonstrated live in booth #829.
About Credo
Our mission is to deliver high-speed solutions to break bandwidth barriers on every wired connection in the data infrastructure market. Credo is an innovator in providing secure, high-speed connectivity solutions that deliver improved power efficiency as data rates and corresponding bandwidth requirements increase exponentially throughout the data infrastructure market. Our innovations ease system bandwidth bottlenecks while simultaneously improving on power, security, and reliability. Our connectivity solutions are optimized for optical and electrical Ethernet applications, including the emerging 100G (or Gigabits per second), 200G, 400G, 800G and the emerging 1.6T (Terabits per second) port markets. Credo products are based on our proprietary Serializer/Deserializer (SerDes) and Digital Signal Processor (DSP) technologies. Our product families include Integrated Circuits (ICs) for the optical and line card markets, Active Electrical Cables (AECs) and SerDes Chiplets. Our intellectual property (IP) solutions consist primarily of SerDes IP licensing.
For more information, please visit https://www.credosemi.com. Follow Credo on LinkedIn.