Design and Comparison of Three 20-Gb/s Backplane Transceivers for Duobinary, PAM4, and NRZ Data

Author

Lee, Jri ; Chen, Ming-Shuan ; Wang, Huai-De

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Nat. Taiwan Univ., Taipei

Volume

43

Issue

9

fYear

2008

Firstpage

2120

Lastpage

2133

Abstract

A full study of three data formats including duobinary, PAM4, and NRZ is proposed to estimate the performance of the corresponding transceivers under different conditions. Transceiver prototypes designed and optimized for the three signalings are presented to evaluate their performance as well as the feasibility. The three transceivers have been tested thoroughly in Rogers and FR4 boards. Fabricated in 90-nm CMOS technology, all three transceivers achieve error-free operation with 20-Gb/s 2 ³¹-1 PRBS data over 40-cm Rogers and 10-cm FR4 channels. General comparison reveals that the NRZ data still achieves the best performance at 20 Gb/s.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; data communication equipment; pulse amplitude modulation; transceivers; CMOS technology; FR4 channels; NRZ data; PAM4 data; Rogers channels; backplane transceivers; bit rate 20 Gbit/s; duobinary data; non-return-to-zero; performance evaluation; pulse-amplitude modulation; size 90 nm; Backplanes; Bandwidth; Bit error rate; CMOS technology; Intersymbol interference; Optical signal processing; Pulse modulation; Signal design; Testing; Transceivers; Duobinary; backplane transceiver; bit error rate (BER); non-return-to-zero (NRZ); pulse-amplitude modulation (PAM4);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Solid-State Circuits, IEEE Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9200

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JSSC.2008.2001934

Filename

4626011