Improved Modeling of Intersymbol Interference in High Speed Serial Links
Conference: PRIME 2012 - 8th Conference on Ph.D. Research in Microelectronics & Electronics
06/12/2012 - 06/15/2012 at Aachen, Germany
Proceedings: PRIME 2012
Pages: 4Language: englishTyp: PDF
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Authors:
Cristofoli, Andrea; Palestri, Pierpaolo; Selmi, Luca (DIEGM – University of Udine, Via delle Scienze, 208, 33100 Udine, Italy)
Da Dalt, Nicola (Infineon Technologies AG, Development Center Villach, Siemenstraße 2, 9500 Villach, Austria)
Abstract:
We present a statistical approach that improves the modeling of Intersymbol Interference for the design and validation of High-Speed Serial Links. The method combines the computational advantages of a statistical technique and the accuracy in modeling the realistic pulse shape of a Spice simulation. Results obtained with the proposed approach are compared with Spice simulations of a 2.5 Gb/s CMOS differential transmitter driving different types of channel. Good agreement with the reference Spice simulations is achieved with a drastic reduction of computation time.