High Speed 16 : 1 Mux Implementation

With today’s high-capacity systems, the need to reduce wide parallel busses to serial signals has become a vital necessity, particularly in test and measurement, telecommunications, data communications, satellite and military/aerospace applications. A parallel-to-serial (P/S) converter, often referred to as a Multiplexer (Mux) or serializer, can be used to convert an 8 or 16-bit wide parallel data bus, usually from an ASIC or FPGA, into a single, serial-bit signal. The serialized signal can then be transmitted across a densely packed PCB, over a chassis back plane, through a fiber optic cable or through free space via a satellite, microwave or free-space optics link.