This is the GLINK transmitter board
used on the DFE transition boards

Design by Pat Sheahan, circa 1998

Not much information about this design.  For some reason
the schematic and layout were done in Accel EDA, which is
since fallen off the face of the earth, but gerbers are
available.  No BOM found.

These GLINK chips are very sensitive to... everything,
first generatation Gbps serializer technology circa 1989.
These chips run so hot that they're packaged in ALUMINUM
QFP packages!  Ugly, ugly +5V power too.  Newer +3.3V parts
are NOT compatible in 20bit mode...?

Check with Johnny Green, he managed to make a few of these
recently, so the parts have not gone completely obsolete!

JTO 14 April 2005