Lectures

Chapter 1: Introduction to High-Speed Serial Interfaces

• Introduction to optical interface standards.
• Introduction to electrical interface standards.

Chapter 2: Signal Integrity

• Signal representation in time and frequency domain.
• s-parameters
• Transmission line
• Eye-diagram, Bit-error-rate, jitter, ISI...
• Signal integrity measurements
• Channel modelling and simulation

Chapter 3: High-Speed Electrical Interfaces

• Serial interface architecture
• Transmitter architecture and building blocks.
• Receiver architecture and building blocks
• Receiver and transmitter equalization techniques
• ISI reduction with decision feedback equalizers
• Clock-and-data recovery (CDR)

Chapter 4: Optoelectronic Integrated Circuits (OEIC) - optional

• Monolithic photodiode integration.
• Transimpedance amplifier design
• Applications for OEICs.

Labs and homework

Several problems will be presented during Analog-3 lecture which have to be solved as homework.