Implement of 100-Gbps optical transceiver firmware for optical communication systems

Abstract

In this paper, an efficient firmware design scheme is proposed for a 100-Gbps CFP(C form-factor pluggable) optical transceiver. The proposed method uses an FPGA approach to integrate the CFP communication interface and register structure, and uses an MCU to implement the operation of the CFP optical transceiver. To ensure the implemented firmware satisfies the proposed design scheme, a real testbed was constructed and the performance of the firmware was evaluated.