Syllabus

Introduction to high speed links. Review of PCB trace behavior at high frequencies. Concepts of cross-talk, dispersion, inter-symbol interference (ISI). Transceiver schemes. Design of transmitter, output impedance matching, multiplexing techniques, clocking, signaling techniques. Pre-distortion and equalization. Link budgets. Design of receivers – continuous time linear equalizers, slicers, DFE techniques, clocking, critical paths, IIR/FIR implementations. PLLs, clock and data recovery circuits and schemes.