• Table of contents
• sfp-breakout
  • Schematics / Design files
  • Photos
  • Availability
  • Errata
    • sfp-breakout v1

sfp-breakout¶

The Osmocom SFP breakout board is exactly what the name implies: A small break-out board for transceivers in SFP form factor.

You can use it for e.g.

• transmitting your own signals / waveforms (not restricted to Ethernet or CPRI) over fiber optics. This is e.g. useful if you need galvanic isolation between digital circuits, or need long-distance transmission e.g. between FPGA LVDS interfaces.
• attach some I2C adapter to the I2C pins of the SFP module in order to re-program it

The SFP transceivers exhibit a symmetric/differencial interface for Rx and Tx. Each of them is exposed as a pair
of SMA connectors, using differential traces between the SMA connectors and the transceiver module.

If you're interested in transmitting single-ended signals, please see the sfp-experimenter board instead. It's like the SFP breakout board, but contains differential transmitter + receivers.

Schematics / Design files¶

The schematics / design files are kept in git at https://git.osmocom.org/osmo-small-hardware/tree/sfp-breakout

You can see the design discussion in #3313 and notes from board-bringup at #3524

Photos¶

Availability¶

As this is an Open Source Hardware design, you can simply go ahead and build the boards yourself using the design files we released.

Assembled boards will be made available via the sysmocom webshop during March 2019.

Errata¶

sfp-breakout v1¶

The v1 boards that don't have the 3v3 connected on the bottom pin header.

Eagle schematic and board file have been fixed in git, gerber files will only be re-generated once v2 is released.