Abstract: This article presents a 200-Gb/s pulse amplitude-modulation four-level (PAM-4) and 100-Gb/s non-return-to-zero (NRZ) transmitter (TX) in 28-nm CMOS technology. To achieve the target data ...
Abstract: This brief presents an adaptive continuous-time linear equalizer (CTLE) and one-tap decision feedback equalizer (DFE) using the spectrum balancing (SB) method. The SB method is extended for ...