Power-Optimization

Power-Optimized Solutions for Telecom Applications

Some telecommunications carriers now target a 20% power reduction per year on the equipment they deploy. This is a response to increasing power consumption in central offices, which is due to higher bandwidth capacities, increasing linecard port densities, more intelligent processing requirements, and more complex chip implementations.

Semiconductors are a significant part of this power problem. The answer is to re-think chip implementation and delivery in order to meet the aggressive power-reduction goals set by carriers. The key enablers are the latest generation of FPGAs which allow for a reduction in overall power consumption as well as the ability to reduce the power per comparable function in future process nodes.

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