The Future of Electrical Signaling in a Post-10 Gbit/s World
Lessons Learned from Backplane Ethernet and Friendly Guidance For Those Who Continue To Push The Envelope
by

Adam Healey, LSI Corporation

Editor’s Note: EN-Genius is proud to present this multi-part series on what lies beyond the 10 Gbit/s barrier for serial networking and interconnect technologies. Written by an eclectic group of leading technologists, this series will discuss the challenges they are facing as higher speeds push semiconductors to their limits and blur the once-tidy boundaries between the chips and the channels they drive. Later installments will discuss technologies, standards, and design techniques being developed to cope with this brave, post-10 Gbit/s world.

Last month John D’Ambrosia set the stage with a brief recap of how we got to this point and an outline of the issues that the subsequent articles will address. In this installment, Adam Healey from LSI Corporation looks at what the industry has learned about 10 Gbit/s signaling from the development of high-speed backplanes.

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