Awny, Ahmed Sanaa Ahmed: Design and measurement techniques for decision feedback equalizers up to 110Gb/s in SiGe technologies. 2015
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Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
1 Introduction
1.1 Transmission Impairments in Optical Fibers
1.2 Feedforward versus Feedback Equalization
1.3 Chip-to-Chip and Board-to-Board Applications
1.4 Motivation
1.5 Organization of the Thesis
2 Decision Feedback Equalizer Architectures
3 Active and Passive Components for the Proposed DFE
3.1 Design of the DFE Broadband Front-end
3.1.1 Bandwidth Requirement
3.1.2 Design and Characterization of the First Version of the DFE Front-end
3.1.3 Design and Characterization of the Second Version of the DFE Front-end
3.2 Static Frequency Dividers
3.3 Design of Broadband Clock Distribution Network
3.4 Generating Differential Signals from Single-ended CW Sources
4 Design and Testing of the Proposed DFE for 80 and 110 Gb/s
4.1 Integrating the Components
4.2 Measurement Techniques
4.2.1 Measuring the Maximum Operating Bit Rate of the Combinational Logic
4.2.2 Measuring the Maximum Operating Frequency of the Feedback Loop
4.3 Measurement at the Full Bit Rate
4.4 Design and On-wafer Measurement of a 110 Gb/s DFE
4.5 Comparison with State of the Art in DFEs
5 Conclusion and Outlook
Appendix A Fabrication Technology
Appendix B Deembedding
Appendix C Small Signal Voltage Gain and S-parameters
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