Planned scope

The rest of the stack

Beyond the four product families, public documents also arrange material roles and device functions: semiconductors and sources, substrates, thermal-mechanical parts, modulation and detection, and electrical interfaces. They belong to the same plan as modules, sockets, ELSFP, and pigtails. They are not a second list to be purchased together.

01

Pluggable

ASICSwitch or compute ASIC
Chip-to-module electrical path
Front-panel modulePluggable transceiver
02

Near-package

Common substrate
Packaged ASICDie + substrate / RDL
EngineAttachable
03

Co-packaged

Same first-level substrate
ASICHost ASIC
Engine
Engine
A concept sketch from the wording of OIF-Co-Packaging-FD-01.0. It is not to scale, and it is not an NPOTEC assembly drawing.

How to read the classes

  1. 01

    Start with mounting position. A front-panel pluggable, socketed near-package optics, and co-packaging on the same first-level substrate are three different drawings.

  2. 02

    Then look at the options. The laser may be inside or outside the engine, and the framework sketches at least four electrical styles: retimed, linear, half-retimed, and direct drive.

  3. 03

    Only then match materials. Columns on the materials page drop out depending on the first two choices. The page is not one purchase.