ADC-based backplane receiver design-space exploration

Citation:

Hayun Chung and Gu Wei. 8/16/2013. “ADC-based backplane receiver design-space exploration.” IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, 22, 7, Pp. 1539–1547. Publisher's Version

Abstract:

Demand for higher throughput backplane communications, coupled with a desire for design portability and flexibility, has led to high-speed backplane receivers that use front-end analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) and digital equalization. Unfortunately, power and complexity of such receivers can be high and require careful design. This paper presents a parameterized ADC-based backplane receiver model that facilitates design-space exploration to optimize the tradeoffs between power and performance-an accurate behavioral model of front-end ADCs is presented for performance estimation and detailed power models for the digital equalizer (EQ) blocks are developed for power estimation. Model-based simulations suggest that comparator offset correction resolution is the most critical ADC design parameter when an overall receiver performance is concerned. Further receiver design-space exploration reveals that a Pareto optimal frontier exists, which can be used as a guideline to set the initial receiver configurations depending on a given power and performance constraints.
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