12/18/2006 EE Times: "Slew of fast interconnects will tax EEs"
San Jose, Calif. -- A handful of high-speed interconnects are about to hit the market, driving changes in how designers will handle fast signals.


The Scalable System Packet Interface (SPI-S), scheduled for release today by the Optical Internetworking Forum, aims to carry data at 6 Gbits/second and up between chips or boards in a communications system.