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Tips and Advanced Techniques for
Characterizing a 28 Gb/s Transceiver
White Paper
DesignCon 2013
Introduction
With the increased use of data services, the performance demand at every level of
the network is increasing. Just a few years ago, the state of the art was 11 Gigabits
per second (Gb/s) serial channel data transmission. New standards such as OTU4
and 100 GbE, now require greater rates of data throughput, while at the same time
demanding lower power and a smaller physical footprint. These new standards now
call for transceiver rates in excess of 25Gb/s per channel. As a result of this demand,
engineers must now design, develop and validate boards and systems that have
multiple 28Gb/s transceiver channels1. With transceivers running at these rates,
the entire serial transmission and measurement eco-system is challenged. The
serial transmission channel must be designed to support these significantly greater |