Crosstalk-aware transmitter pulse-shaping for parallel chip-to-chip links.
Published: 2006
Language: eng
Number of pages: 72
ISBN-13: 9780494161180
Description: This thesis examines the difficulties involved in transmitting data over chip-to-chip links. Links for which crosstalk from adjacent parallel channels dominates the receiver noise are given particular attention. The idea of using a crosstalk-aware pulse shape to mitigate crosstalk is explored. This method stands in contrast to the traditional method of explicit crosstalk cancellation in which each parallel transmitter takes the bit streams of its two neighbours as input in order to cancel the crosstalk from those bit streams. Some measurements are performed on a board-to-board channel which are then used to find the optimal transmitter pulse shape for that channel. Finally, a 5-Gb/s chip-to-chip transmitter is designed in 0.13-mum CMOS based on information from the simulations and measurements performed.
Notes: Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 44-06, page: 2907.

Thesis (M.A.Sc.)--University of Toronto, 2006.

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