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TeraSquare was founded in December 2010 to develop 100Gbps Ethernet ICs. The company has received funding from SoftBank Ventures Korea and may seek additional capital in the future. TeraSquare is headquartered in Seoul, Korea and the primary R&D center is located in Daejeon, Korea. The Daejeon office has a joint development with KAIST, a public research university, to develop a CMOS-based 100GE IC. The company has 15 full time employees and several contractors.
TeraSquare recently unveiled a parallel CDR (Clock Data Recovery) solution that will dramatically improve signal quality across 100G systems and make massive power consumption savings in the process. The parallel CDR-TS-CM44013 slashes IC power consumption to 0.75W compared to average CFP4 levels of 3.5W.
TeraSquare’s 100Gb/s parallel CDR has 25.0-28.3Gb/s per lane in an 8mm X 8mm BGA package for CFP4/QSFP28 modules and supports CEI-28G-VSR specifications. In addition to low power consumption, it features a reference-less mode and jitter filtering operation with no external filter capacitor required. The device does not require a clock reference and has built in JTOL testability, which eliminates the current expensive requirement for external testing equipment.
TeraSquare’s second product is a 10x10Gb/s and 4x25Gb/s 100-giga reverse gearbox CDR fully supporting OIF MLG1.0/MLG2.0 and CEI-28G-VSR for CFP4/QSFP28 modules. This product has all the features of TeraSquare’s 100-giga parallel CDR (TS-CM44013) and only consumes 1.1W. Tape-out is anticipated in several months.
Today, companies offer 100G forward gearbox; however, TeraSquare believe it will offer the first multi-function reverse gearbox. The market size is estimated at $300 million in 2016.
The target market size for the TS-CM44013 is estimated at $160M in 2016, according to the company. Competitors include Semtech and Inphi. Competitive advantages include lower power consumption along with many addition value-added features such as reference-less mode.
TeraSquare demonstrated TS-CM44013 alpha samples at ECOC in late September. The device is fabricated in a 40nm CMOS process. Beta ICs will be available at the end of October with mass production ready in Q1’14. First samples of the Gearbox IC will be available in Q1’14.
Other product plans include a 100G Metro IC and an 10G EDC IC allows the use of DFB or Fabry Perot lasers, which are 3-5X less expensive than EML lasers. The company is also working in ICs to combat the data problem inside ultra-HD TVs, which require 300Gbps serial links. TeraSquare’s technology will reduce the number of ICs required to implement the link.
TeraSquare is targeting the top 10 global module manufacturers and is talking to all of them. Most customers are in the USA, Japan, and China.
Dr. Jinho Park, Co-founder & CTO (previously Senior Design Manager at Marvell in Silicon Valley, where he built and led a R&D group of 30 Ph.Ds)
TeraSquare was founded in December 2010 to develop 100Gbps Ethernet ICs. The company has received funding from SoftBank Ventures Korea and may seek additional capital in the future. TeraSquare is headquartered in Seoul, Korea and the primary R&D center is located in Daejeon, Korea. The Daejeon office has a joint development with KAIST, a public research university, to develop a CMOS-based 100GE IC. The company has 15 full time employees and several contractors.
TeraSquare recently unveiled a parallel CDR (Clock Data Recovery) solution that will dramatically improve signal quality across 100G systems and make massive power consumption savings in the process. The parallel CDR-TS-CM44013 slashes IC power consumption to 0.75W compared to average CFP4 levels of 3.5W.
TeraSquare’s 100Gb/s parallel CDR has 25.0-28.3Gb/s per lane in an 8mm X 8mm BGA package for CFP4/QSFP28 modules and supports CEI-28G-VSR specifications. In addition to low power consumption, it features a reference-less mode and jitter filtering operation with no external filter capacitor required. The device does not require a clock reference and has built in JTOL testability, which eliminates the current expensive requirement for external testing equipment.
TeraSquare’s second product is a 10x10Gb/s and 4x25Gb/s 100-giga reverse gearbox CDR fully supporting OIF MLG1.0/MLG2.0 and CEI-28G-VSR for CFP4/QSFP28 modules. This product has all the features of TeraSquare’s 100-giga parallel CDR (TS-CM44013) and only consumes 1.1W. Tape-out is anticipated in several months.
Today, companies offer 100G forward gearbox; however, TeraSquare believe it will offer the first multi-function reverse gearbox. The market size is estimated at $300 million in 2016.
The target market size for the TS-CM44013 is estimated at $160M in 2016, according to the company. Competitors include Semtech and Inphi. Competitive advantages include lower power consumption along with many addition value-added features such as reference-less mode.
TeraSquare demonstrated TS-CM44013 alpha samples at ECOC in late September. The device is fabricated in a 40nm CMOS process. Beta ICs will be available at the end of October with mass production ready in Q1’14. First samples of the Gearbox IC will be available in Q1’14.
Other product plans include a 100G Metro IC and an 10G EDC IC allows the use of DFB or Fabry Perot lasers, which are 3-5X less expensive than EML lasers. The company is also working in ICs to combat the data problem inside ultra-HD TVs, which require 300Gbps serial links. TeraSquare’s technology will reduce the number of ICs required to implement the link.
TeraSquare is targeting the top 10 global module manufacturers and is talking to all of them. Most customers are in the USA, Japan, and China.
Dr. Jinho Park, Co-founder & CTO (previously Senior Design Manager at Marvell in Silicon Valley, where he built and led a R&D group of 30 Ph.Ds)
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