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Tips, Tricks, and Tutorial on Signal Integrity for Multigigabit/s Serial Links

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Open the Eye Solution - Mark Broman

Posted January 6th, 2009 by Mark Broman · Add the First Comment · Guest Post, Puzzle, Solution

Mark Broman of Thin Film Technology Corp submitted this solution to our puzzle contest. Mark writes: This puzzle appears to be a classic lossy ISI problem. We work with these all the time. So much so that we developed a line of high pass filters that are the inverse function of the typical bessel loss of [...]

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Puzzle Event 1 - Open the Eye

Posted October 29th, 2008 by Colin Warwick · 3 Comments · Puzzle

To enter this fun puzzle event, submit your solution to the following signal integrity problem. The eye diagram performance at 6 Gbps for a given set of S-parameters with no equalization is shown below. Obviously for this long channel the eye diagram is closed. The idea is that you develop a passive or active equalizer circuit [...]

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