• DocumentCode
    2413564
  • Title

    Testing SerDes beyond 4 Gbps - changing priorities

  • Author

    Sunter, Stephen ; Roy, Aubin

  • Author_Institution
    LogicVision, Ottawa
  • fYear
    2007
  • fDate
    16-19 Sept. 2007
  • Firstpage
    135
  • Lastpage
    138
  • Abstract
    After briefly reviewing conventional jitter and jitter tolerance tests for SerDes, this paper shows that ISI is a dominant source of bit errors above 4 Gbps, and is inadequately tested. We demonstrate the correlation between ISI and transition-density dependent delay (TDDD) at 3.1 Gbps, and provide detailed 6.25 Gbps silicon results for an undersampling digital BIST that can measure jitter, TDDD, and other parameters at production speeds with picosecond resolution.
  • Keywords
    error statistics; intersymbol interference; jitter; SerDes; bit error rate; bit errors source; bit rate 4 Gbit/s; jitter tolerance tests; serializer-deserializer system; transition-density dependent delay; Bit error rate; Circuit testing; Delay; Frequency measurement; Intersymbol interference; Jitter; Manufacturing processes; Phase measurement; Production; Transmitters;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, 2007. CICC '07. IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-0786-6
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-1623-3
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CICC.2007.4405698
  • Filename
    4405698