Publications related to Gigabit Ethernet

An All-Digital 1 Mbps, 57 pJ/bit Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) Backscatter ASIC in 65 nm CMOS

We present an all-digital application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) that implements Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE)-compatible backscatter communication. The ASIC was fabricated in a 65 nm CMOS process and occupies an active area of 0.12 mm(2) while consum ...

IEEE2022

An Optimized Low-Power Band-Tuning TX for Short-Range FMCW Radar in 22-nm FDSOI CMOS

Christian Enz, Francesco Chicco, Sammy Cerida Rengifo

The paper presents a low-power transmitter (TX) as a part of a fully integrated 57-66 GHz FMCW radar system. The TX path includes a BPSK modulator and it is optimized for short-range operation with 0 dBm output power. A band-tuning technique is used for co ...

IEEE2021

Low-Latency High-Bandwidth Circuit and System Design for Trigger Systems in High Energy Physics

Marcos Vinícius Silva Oliveira

The increasing luminosity in HEP (High Energy Physics) colliders demands trigger systems to be more selective. First, more information from the detector is routed to the trigger system. Second, larger parts of this information are processed together. These ...

EPFL2021

Energy-Efficient Design Techniques for High-Speed Wireline Serial Links

Firat Çelik

The exponential growth in computing power and multimedia services has caused a tremendous increase in data traffic in recent years. This increase in data traffic brings a strong demand for data bandwidth of electrical input/output (I/O) links and pushes th ...

EPFL2021

Kramers Kronig detection of four 20 Gbaud 16-QAM channels using Kerr combs for a shared phase estimation

Tobias Kippenberg, Maxim Karpov, Martin Hubert Peter Pfeiffer, Arne Kordts, Fatemeh Alishahi, Ahmad Fallahpour

We experimentally demonstrate Kramers-Kronig detection of four 20 Gbaud 16-quadrature-amplitude-modulated (QAM) channels after 50 km fiber transmission using two soliton Kerr combs as signal sources and local oscillators. The estimated carrier phase at the ...

OPTICAL SOC AMER2020

Plug-and-play TOF-PET Module Readout Based on TDC-on-FPGA and Gigabit Optical Fiber Network

Edoardo Charbon, Esteban Venialgo Araujo

Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scanner technology requires the use of a large number of PET detector modules that work in a parallel and synchronous manner. Moreover, system modularity is a desirable feature, that enables technology reutilization for d ...

IEEE2019

ISI Sensitivity of PAM Signaling for Very High-Speed Short-Reach Copper Links

Yusuf Leblebici, Seyed Armin Tajalli, Firat Çelik, Ayça Akkaya

This paper presents a comparative study, analyzing the potentials of pulse amplitude modulation (PAM) for implementing next generation high-speed copper wireline links. This comparative study analyzes the sensitivities of PAM2, PAM4 and PAM8 to inter-symbo ...

IEEE2019

Phase Sensitive OTDR Strain Measurement Using Single Mode Operation in Multimode OM4 Fiber

Luc Thévenaz, Zhisheng Yang, Alejandro Dominguez Lopez

We present the first realization of strain sensing in a multimode OM4 optical fiber using phase-sensitive optical time-domain reflectometry. We demonstrate that single mode operation in an OM4 fiber is achievable and allows the fiber strain to be measured ...

2019

An Eight lanes 7Gb/s/pin Source Synchronous Single-Ended RX with Equalization and Far-End Crosstalk Cancellation for Backplane Channels

Volkan Cevher, Cosimo Aprile, Yusuf Leblebici, Alessandro Cevrero, Lukas Kull, Thomas Toifl

This paper presents a versatile crosstalk cancellation scheme for single-ended multi-lane backplane links. System-level investigations show that a scheme, which combines analog filters and decision-feedback crosstalk compensation on the receiver (RX) side ...

2018

Design Techniques for High-Speed Multi-Level Viterbi Detectors and Trellis-Coded-Modulation Decoders

Andreas Peter Burg, Lukas Kull, Thomas Toifl, Giovanni Cherubini

The implementation of a 25.6-Gb/s four-level pulse-amplitude-modulation (4-PAM) reduced-state sliding-block Viterbi detector (VD) is presented. The power consumption of the VD is 105 orilV at a supply voltage of 0.7 V, corresponding to an energy efficiency ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2018

Multi-Tone Signaling and ADC-Based Digital Receiver for High-Speed Wireline Serial Links

Gain Kim

The exponential growth of Internet traffic and related demands for higher communication speed pushes processor-to-processor and processor-to-memory interconnects to provide further higher data-rate. Often time, processor-to-memory interconnectsâ speed is ...

EPFL2018

TiD-Introducing and Benchmarking an Event-Delivery System for Brain-Computer Interfaces

Robert Leeb, Michele Tavella

In this paper, we present and analyze an event distribution system for brain-computer interfaces. Events are commonly used to mark and describe incidents during an experiment and are therefore critical for later data analysis or immediate real-time process ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2017

Unidirectional isolator-free 2 micron fiber lasers

Svyatoslav Kharitonov

This thesis presents results of a research on unidirectional isolator-free cavity lasers, exploiting thulium-doped fiber (TDF) as amplification medium and operating in \unit[2]{\mu m} wavelength range. For fibre ring resonator, an optical isolator should b ...

EPFL2017

Architectural Modeling of a Multi-Tone/Single-Sideband Serial Link Transceiver for Lossy Wireline Data Links

Yusuf Leblebici, Gain Kim

This paper presents a serial link transceiver (TRX) architecture that enables high-speed data transmission over a lossy backplane channel without the presence of equalization circuits. The proposed architecture employs multi-tone signaling to reduce inter- ...

Ieee2016

Hybrid NRZ/Multi-Tone Signaling for High-Speed Low-Power Wireline Transceivers

Kiarash Gharibdoust

Over the past few decades, incessant growth of Internet networking traffic and High-Performance Computing (HPC) has led to a tremendous demand for data bandwidth. Digital communication technologies combined with advanced integrated circuit scaling trends h ...

EPFL2016

Method of real-time regulation compliance for wireless transmitters

Pierre-André Farine, Alexis Boegli, Mitko Tanevski

All wireless devices must comply with the local radio regulations which are set by international and national regulatory bodies such as the European Telecommunication Standardization Institute (ETSI) for Europe and the Federal Commission for Communication ...

2015

Fabrication and performance of 1.3-mu m 10-Gb/s CWDM wafer-fused VCSELs grown by MOVPE

Elyahou Kapon, Grigore Suruceanu, Alexandru Mereuta, Vladimir Iakovlev, Alexei Sirbu, Andrei Caliman, Zlatko Mickovic

Recent progress in the fabrication and performance of 1.3-mu m 10-Gb/s, low power consumption wafer-fused VCSELs grown by MOVPE under nitrogen atmosphere are presented and discussed. By optimization of the growth conditions and implementation of a cavity a ...

Elsevier Science Bv2015

Role of the gate in ballistic nanowire SOI MOSFETs

Christian Enz, Jean-Michel Sallese, Anurag Mangla

In this paper we report the results of Monte-Carlo simulations performed on double-gate ballistic MOSFETs with a geometry such that the gates overlap only a fraction of the channel. We present a qualitative analysis of the simulation results highlighting t ...

Elsevier2015

SPADnet: a fully digital, scalable and networked photonic component for time-of-flight PET applications

Edoardo Charbon, Claudio Bruschini, John Richard Walker, Gabor Nemeth

The SPADnet FP7 European project is aimed at a new generation of fully digital, scalable and networked photonic components to enable large area image sensors, with primary target gamma-ray and coincidence detection in (Time-of-Flight) Positron Emission Tom ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2014

Tunable Thulium-Assisted Parametric Generation of 10 Gb/s Intensity Modulated Signals Near 2 μm

Camille Sophie Brès, Adrien Billat, Steevy Joyce Cordette, Yu-Pei Tseng

We report the demonstration of an all-fiber 10Gb/s modulation capable source near 2μm, tunable over more than 60nm with powers exceeding 2dBm, based on parametric conversion and appended Thulium amplification. ...

2014