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Abstract
This thesis studies the high-speed serial link transceiver challenges that happened be- cause of the channel behavior which affects on the signal integrity. First, the thesis starts with a brief introduction about the signal integrity, then it introduces a short survey about the channel types, characteristics, and channel effects, as well as the combined channel types which affect the signal integrity. The signal integrity deterioration happens because of cross-talk, attenuation and reflection which causes Inter-symbol Interference phenomena ISI. This thesis is showing the different types of data representations and the advantage and disadvantage for each one. And study the equalization techniques that works to compensate the signal integrity deterioration by expanding the channel bandwidth as well as the amplifying the received waveform. Equalizers also clean the waveform from ISI cursors, and overcome other non idealities including some reflections due to channel resistance variation during transmission. All these purposes are com- bined to achieve a clean and correct data receiving with the possible minimum errors after distortions.
It also studies the possible gains from using a single adaptation algorithm in tuning multiple equalizers in a serial link transceiver using Pulse Amplitude Modulation 4-level PAM4 data representation. A comparison with the typical approach of using an algo- rithm for tuning one of the many equalizers used in transceivers from the perspective of bit error rate BER is carried out. This work also presents a method of measuring the eye diagram using an Eye Diagram Monitor EDM algorithm to continuously feed a Figure of Merit FOM to the adaptation algorithm to update equalizers settings. A demonstration on deploying our algorithm in adapting two major building blocks of a typical PAM4 transceiver -Continuous Linear Time equalizer CTLE and Finite Im- pulse Response FIR equalizer- is presented, showing its effectiveness in comparison with adapting only one equalizer at receiver Rx side which is CTLE only. Simulation results show improvement in eye diagram measures in terms of achieving an eye diagram specs which its height is equal to 257 mV and its width is equal to 57 ps compared to 83 mV and 28 ps respectively in case of adapting only one equalizer in Rx.