A 3-tap FIR filter with cascaded distributed tap amplifiers for equalization up to 40 Gb/s in 0.18-μm CMOS

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1919-1928

  Sewter, Jonathan ^b   Chan Carusone, Anthony ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

40 Gb s; CMOS; Distributed amplifier; Equalization; Polarization mode dispersion (PMD); Traveling wave filter

Indexed keywords

40 GB/S; DISTRIBUTED AMPLIFIER; EQUALIZATION; POLARIZATION-MODE DISPERSION (PMD); TRAVELING WAVE FILTER;

CASCADE CONNECTIONS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC LINES; OPTICAL FIBERS; POWER AMPLIFIERS; PROGRAMMABLE LOGIC CONTROLLERS; SIGNAL NOISE MEASUREMENT;

FIR FILTERS;

EID: 33746884699     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2006.875293     Document Type: Conference Paper

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