The Future of Electrical Signaling in a Post-10 Gbit/s World, Part IV Modeling, Simulation and Measurement Techniques for 25 Gbit/s Systems by Eric Bogatin, Bogatin Enterprises; and Mike Resso, Agilent Technologies
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, Tyco Electronics’ Michael Fogg took us on a tour of the technologies, techniques, and speed bumps we’ll encounter as we coax copper cabling towards handling 25 Gbit/s data rates. In this installment, Eric Bogatin, a noted signal integrity expert, teams with Mike Resso from Agilent Technologies to present a brief tutorial on what it will take produce a model high-speed channel that’s accurate enough to perform useful simulation with, as well as the measurement techniques we’ll need to verify its actual characteristics.
