A 12-Gbps, 0.24-pJ/b/dB PAM-4 Receiver With Dead-Zone Free SS-MMSE PD for CIS Link

A tracking clock recovery receiver for 4-Gbps signaling

We have previously described a design for a 4Gb/s signaling system that uses transmitter equalization to overcome the frequency-dependent attenuation due to skin effect in transmission lines. We present here experimental results from an implementation of this idea in 0.5μ CMOS, showing the effectiveness of a simple transition-filter equalization technique. Our experimental chips use a tracking ...

VLSI Implementation of a Scalable Pipeline MMSE MIMO Detector for a 4×4 MIMO-OFDM Receiver

MIMO-OFDM performs signal detection on a subcarrier basis which requires high speed computation in MIMO detection due to its large computational cost. Conventional designs in a MIMO detector increase processing time in proportion to the number of subcarriers and have difficulty in real-time processing for large numbers of subcarriers. A complete pipeline MMSE MIMO detector presented in our prev...

16 Gbps 4-PAM Signal Comparison for Real-Time Testing of Multi-Level Signal Transmitters

This article proposes a method for testing a device with multi-level signal interfaces. This method utilizes multi-level comparators that are based on a new concept. The multi-level comparators realize real-time functional testing of a multi-level signal with the same number of comparators as a conventional test system, by changing the threshold voltage levels dynamically in response to the exp...

DS-SS UWB Wireless Personal Area Network: BER and PER Evaluation under an MMSE Receiver

This paper focuses on the performance evaluation of a Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum (DS-SS) Ultra Wideband (UWB) network in an indoor environment where receiver and transmitter positions are fixed. In particular, a novel distance and time dependent impulse response has been obtained and considered for our performance evaluation. Moreover, from receiver side, a Minimum Mean Square Error (MMSE)...

Persistent Gbps Link Monitoring with Tstat