Silicon bipolar IC for PRBS testing generates adjustable bit rates up to 25Gbit/s

Electronics Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 24, 1997, Pages 2022-2023

  Schumann, F ^a   Bock J ^a  

^a SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bipolar integrated circuits; Random number generation

Indexed keywords

BINARY SEQUENCES; MONOLITHIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; PHASE SHIFTERS; PULSE GENERATORS; RANDOM NUMBER GENERATION; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON;

PSEUDO RANDOM BINARY SEQUENCE (PRBS) GENERATION;

BIPOLAR INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 0031271955     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:19971366     Document Type: Article

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