Introduction

Microchip’s 10G optical SFP+ module is a system-level optical transceiver solution built with the lowest power, smallest form factor, and highly secure PolarFire FPGA.

This application note describes how the PolarFire FPGA can be used in building an SFP+ module and provides guidelines to:

• Build an FPGA based SFP+ module within the given small form factor.
• Design an efficient power integrity for the module and to design a high-performance signal integrity for the high-speed traces.