• DocumentCode
    2820257
  • Title

    32 GS/s Soft Decision LSI in 0.13 µm SiGe BiCMOS for Forward Error Correction in Optical Communications

  • Author

    Kobayashi, T. ; Kametani, S. ; Tagami, H. ; Koguchi, K. ; Mizuochi, T.

  • Author_Institution
    Inf. Technol. R&D Center, Mitsubishi Electr. Corp., Kamakura, Japan
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    3-6 Oct. 2010
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    4
  • Abstract
    We have developed a 2-bit 32 GS/s soft decision LSI in 0.13 μm SiGe-BiCMOS. The LSI includes a flash type Analogue-to-Digital converter and an encoder which outputs the soft decision results, which are a hard decision bit and a confidence bit for strong Forward Error Correction. We have confirmed that the LSI has 25 mVpp sensitivity and the LSI enables 2 dB better FEC coding gain than hard decision.
  • Keywords
    BiCMOS integrated circuits; analogue-digital conversion; forward error correction; large scale integration; optical communication; silicon compounds; BiCMOS; SiGe; flash type analogue-to-digital converter; forward error correction; optical communications; size 0.13 mum; soft decision LSI; word length 2 bit; BiCMOS integrated circuits; Decoding; Forward error correction; Gain; Large scale integration; Parity check codes; Silicon germanium;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Compound Semiconductor Integrated Circuit Symposium (CSICS), 2010 IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Monterey, CA
  • ISSN
    1550-8781
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-7437-0
  • Electronic_ISBN
    1550-8781
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CSICS.2010.5619672
  • Filename
    5619672