Ensphere Solutions Inc., a fabless semiconductor company headquartered in Santa Clara, CA, says the first Thunderbolt active optical cables (AOC) to enter the market are based on its ESI-XVR10100 optical transceiver.

Thunderbolt is a high-speed PC connection technology developed by Intel Corp., initially under the name LightPeak. It provides bi-directional 10-Gbps data transmission, and is PCI Express and DisplayPort compatible. Sumitomo started shipping Thunderbolt cables back in April (see "Sumitomo Electric samples optical Thunderbolt cable").
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"Our first optical Thunderbolt cables chose an optical engine design based on the Ensphere ESI-XVR10100 due to its excellent match with our overall design requirements," said Shigeo Saito, executive officer, deputy general manager, electronics business unit and general manager of electronic wire division, Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
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" |7 N/ @  T6 k4 k: z" P7 C( ~Ensphere says the ESI-XVR10100 optical transceiver device is ideally suited for optical Thunderbolt cable designs. The device offers two 10-Gbps lanes, on-chip thermal sensors and VCSEL compensation logic to ensure the best overall performance. OEM customers can pre-program special operating characteristics into its OTP memory, and can add up to four slave devices for applications requiring wider parallel interfaces.
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# i, G' M; L! E; R1 F"Optical cable suppliers know the importance of choosing high performance 10-Gbps optical engines with a careful balance of silicon CMOS performance, low power operation, and low-profile products in order to meet the overall optical Thunderbolt design requirements," said Hessam Mohajeri, founder and CEO of Ensphere. "That the first such cables to enter the market have chosen the Ensphere ESI-XVR10100 is an acknowledgement of our design and delivery capabilities."
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9 a) W* ?6 O7 c% I. DThe ESI-XVR10100 is currently available in die form in production quantities.
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台系主板厂商，尤其是Asus和Asrock，都开始在主板上支持Thunderbolt，Asus甚至有PCIe-Thunderbolt的转接卡，难道让用户买回去接苹果的显示器吗，哈哈。不过他们推的都是电版本的，不像骚尼直接支持光。

stupid 发表于 2012-1-27 09:48
* w: L( G6 k4 n+ F9 o看看你们开发的东西，但用的光芯片不是Avago的，而是 Ensphere  的 ESI-XVR1010，Ensphere说他们20 ...

这个基板的图片比较的清楚，{:soso_e102:} ，那测试线还是出自兄弟手下呢，可惜当初没copy的资料出来。

看看98年才出的USB2。0 是到06或者07年才多人用。
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，求助来了。。。。。

谢谢分享！

哎。。被这些东西弄的头昏脑胀的

看到这个东西在开发的时候是三年前,foxconn 中山 ambit.当时没量产,封装厂都不愿意跟avago合作开发,ambit 09年经济危机也没什么生意做,就跟avago合伙干这个.
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请注意，这个是Light Peak的原始版本，光版本。

Light Peak于2009年9月首次在IDF上公开，其最大特点是采用了光传输技术。2010 下半年Intle表示Light Peak 可以首先支持 电接口，这就是苹果年初在Mac  Book 上推出的采用mini DisplayPort 接口的雷电接口”ThunderBolt“，支持DisplayPort和 PCIe 两种规范。之后Sony也在笔记本上加入了雷电接口。
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但迄今为止，还没有任何关于Thunderbolt的一致性测试规范。