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Credo Blue Heron is for AI Scale-Up and Scale-Out Interconnect

3.2T Multiprotocol Retimer and Gearbox

Blue Heron

Credo Blue Heron is a high-performance, versatile multiprotocol retimer and gearbox designed for AI scale-up GPU-to-GPU interconnects over channels up to 40+dB of insertion loss at 224G data rates. It supports advanced features such as mission-mode FEC monitoring, FEC termination and regeneration, advanced telemetry, and integration with Credo’s PILOT GUI development environment.

Blue Heron is built in an advanced 3nm process using Credo’s 224G SerDes. Blue Heron enables rack-scale cable backplanes and flexible placement of GPUs and switch ICs to support AI scale-up applications.

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About this product

Configuration

16:16; 16:8

Host Data Rate / Channel

224G, 112G, 56G

Line Data Rate / Channel

224G, 112G, 56G

Package Size

25x25mm

Insertion loss

CEI-224G-LR/VSR

Operating Temperature

0 to 105°C

Process

3nm

Media

Backplane / DAC / Optics / AEC

PMD

CEI-224G-LR/VSR

Side A Speed

16×224/112/56G

Side B Speed

16×224/112/56G

Communication Interface

MDIO, I2C, SPI

Power Supply

0.75, 0.85, 1.2

Function

Multiprotocol Retimer / Gearbox

Applications

AI / Data Center Scale Up, Scale Out

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