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Get up to speed with the fundamentals of complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) for wireline communication with this practical introduction, from short-reach optical links to various electrical links. It presents practical coverage of the state of the art, equipping readers with all the tools needed to understand these circuits and then design their own. A comprehensive treatment of components, including details for front-end circuits, equalizers, oscillators, phase-locked loops and clock and data recovery systems, accompanies significant coverage of inverter-based circuits, preparing the reader for modern designs in nano-scale CMOS. Numerous inline examples demonstrate concepts and solutions, allowing readers to absorb the theory and confidently apply concepts to new scenarios. Suitable for graduate students and professional engineers working in mixed-signal integrated circuit design for high-speed interconnects, and including over 100 end-of-chapter problems to extend learning (with online solutions for instructors), this versatile book will equip readers with an unrivalled understanding of exactly what goes into a modern wireline link - and why.
List of contents
Preface; 1. Introduction to wireline communication; 2. Electrical channels; 3. Decision circuits; 4. Equalization; 5. Electrical-link transmitter circuits; 6. Electrical-link receiver front-ends; 7. Optical channels and components; 8. Optical-link transmitter circuits; 9. Optical receivers; 10. Low-bandwidth (equalizer-based) optical receivers; 11. Advanced topics in electrical and optical links; 12. Overview of synchronization approaches; 13. Oscillators; 14. Phase-locked loops and injection-locked oscillators; 15. Clock and data recovery; Appendix A; Appendix B.
About the author
Glenn Cowan is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Concordia University and has been teaching this course on mixed-signals for over ten years. His research interests include low-power mixed-signal circuits for wireline communication, biomedical signal acquisition and computation.
