Session 2 overview: Ultra-high-speed transceivers and techniques: Wireline subcommittee

The rise of cloud computing and mobile communications has driven an explosion in the need for data communication bandwidth, making efficient wireline transceivers that work at the limits of the process technology increasingly critical. Techniques to reduce the power consumed by the sophisticated equalization and clocking circuits necessary to operate over lossy electrical channels are therefore required. This session includes 9 papers in this area, addressing topics of 28Gb/s transceivers, a 60Gb/s transmitter, sub-250fJ/b equalizers at 16 to 25Gb/s, and robust TX equalization and clock generation/recovery designs.