A SDH overhead terminator chip set for 10 Gbit/s optical transmission system

A SDH overhead terminator chip set has been designed for 10 Gbit/s optical transmission system. The chip set built on 0.6 /spl mu/m CMOS technology and 0.6 /spl mu/m H-GaAs III MESFET technology successfully realizes the functions needed for regenerator section termination and multiplex section termination with alarm detection and generation, and performance monitoring. This paper introduces a novel multiplexing structure for parallel processing of the STM-64 frame signal and describes the architecture of the chip set.