Jeff McGuire

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Jeff McGuire is vice president of business development at Kandou Bus. Prior to Kandou, he was a director of business development at Rambus. McGuire's tech career started at HP. Following Agilent Technologies’ spin-off from HP in the late 1990s, he helped the networking/computing ASIC business extend to new external customers including Cisco. He also owned worldwide sales of EDA tools and IP solutions for enterprise customers while at Cadence. McGuire holds a B.A. in accounting and an MBA from Arizona State University.

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Virtual Packages Improve Signal Integrity

By Jeff McGuire - 23 Oct, 2018 - Comments: 0

The 112 Gb/s generation of SerDes has brought along excessive loss within the package, around 5 dBs of loss within each monolithic package. This loss markedly reduces the usefulness of these SerDes. MCM technology has progressed to where the use of 70mm packages is routine. Non-interposer MCMs easily can use 20 or more chiplets, plus large dies and passives can be used. These MCMs have low ... » read more

SerDes For Chiplets

By Jeff McGuire - 16 Oct, 2018 - Comments: 0

The XSR 56G and 112G Interoperability Agreements (IAs) announced by the OIF are intended to cover a channel consisting of a pair of up to 50mm. The primary defined application of the XSR SerDes is connecting a chip to a “nearby” optical engine. Because the requirements on these channels are much less stringent than they are on long reach channels, XSR SerDes are expected to have lower power... » read more

How Much Data Can Be Pushed Through Copper Wires?

By Jeff McGuire - 08 Oct, 2018 - Comments: 0

As the amount of digital data grows, so do requirements on the speed of the transmission at all levels of the transmission chain—between dies in a shared package, between packaged chips inside a device, and between devices. The communication channels encountered at every stage of this communication are different in nature. Those between dies in a shared package, or between packaged chips in a... » read more