This versatile book will equip readers with an unrivalled understanding of exactly what goes into a modern wireline link â and why. Suitable for graduate students and professional engineers working in mixed-signal integrated circuit design, including numerous examples and over 100 end-of-chapter problems (with online solutions for instructors).
This versatile book will equip readers with an unrivalled understanding of exactly what goes into a modern wireline link â and why. Suitable for graduate students and professional engineers working in mixed-signal integrated circuit design, including numerous examples and over 100 end-of-chapter problems (with online solutions for instructors).
Glenn Cowan is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Concordia University and has been teaching this course on mixed-signals for over ten years. His research interests include low-power mixed-signal circuits for wireline communication, biomedical signal acquisition and computation.
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Preface 1. Introduction to wireline communication 2. Electrical channels 3. Decision circuits 4. Equalization 5. Electrical-link transmitter circuits 6. Electrical-link receiver front-ends 7. Optical channels and components 8. Optical-link transmitter circuits 9. Optical receivers 10. Low-bandwidth (equalizer-based) optical receivers 11. Advanced topics in electrical and optical links 12. Overview of synchronization approaches 13. Oscillators 14. Phase-locked loops and injection-locked oscillators 15. Clock and data recovery Appendix A Appendix B.