A 40-to-56 Gb/s PAM-4 Receiver With Ten-Tap Direct Decision-Feedback Equalization in 16-nm FinFET

Im, J; Freitas, D; Roldan, AB; Casey, R; Chen, S; Chou, CHA; Cronin, T; Geary, K; McLeod, S; Zhou, L; Zhuang, I; Han, J; Lin, S; Upadhyaya, P; Zhang, G; Frans, Y; Chang, K

Im, J (reprint author), Xilinx Inc, San Jose, CA 95124 USA.

IEEE JOURNAL OF SOLID-STATE CIRCUITS, 2017; 52 (12): 3486

Abstract

A 40-56 Gb/s PAM-4 receiver with ten-tap decision-feedback equalization (DFE) targeting chip-to-module and board-to-board cable interconnects is desig......

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