Autonomous dual-mode (PAM2/4) serial link transceiver with adaptive equalization and data recovery

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1012-1025

  Stojanović, Vladimir ^a,b,c   Ho, Andrew ^a   Garlepp, Bruno W ^a   Chen, Fred ^a   Wei, Jason ^a   Tsang, Grace ^a   Alon, Elad ^a,b   Kollipara, Ravi T ^a   Werner, Carl W ^a   Zerbe, Jared L ^a   Horowitz, Mark A ^b  

^a RAMBUS INC   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

^c Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive equalization; Back channel; Common mode; Data recovery; Decision feedback equalization (DFE); Link

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; BANDWIDTH; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COMPUTER HARDWARE; DATA TRANSFER; DECISION FEEDBACK EQUALIZERS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; EQUALIZERS; OPTICAL LINKS; SIGNAL RECEIVERS;

ADAPTIVE EQUALIZATION; BACK-CHANNEL; COMMONMODE; DATA RECOVERY; LINKS;

TRANSCEIVERS;

EID: 20844446628     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2004.842863     Document Type: Conference Paper

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