At high data rates, around and above 10 Gbits/s, we have to face the reality that conducting traces glued to dielectric (a.k.a., printed circuit boards) are truly horrible waveguides. They attenuate ...
This rule of thumb enables us to estimate how much attenuation would be in the loss budget of a serial channel. Spoiler summary:With no equalization, about -10 dB at the Nyquist. With just CTLE, about ...
Analyze the effects on eye diagrams, BER, and timing margins by integrating advanced equalization algorithms into channel ...