Ultra-Low Power and Low-Latency Smart Retimers

Deliver Active Electrical Cables (AECs) at 2X Lower Power and 15X Lower Latency at 40% Lower Cost

Point2’s UltraWire^TM  Smart Retimers are mixed-signal SoCs purpose-built to dramatically lower the power, latency, and cost of AECs. The Smart Retimers are enhanced by a BER-aware architecture – a series of sophisticated signal processing building blocks that correlate the total chip BER to the power consumption of each circuit block. These mixed-signal components are monitored during chip operation with automatic background calibration in real-time in response to environmental changes. The results are high-performance Smart Retimers that are 2X lower in power and 15X lower in latency at 40% lower cost than other PAM4 DSP retimers. Point2’s Smart Retimer technology mitigates fundamental performance and cost issues for Hyperscale data centers as Active Electric Cables (AECs) become part of a critical infrastructure for scaling AI Clusters.