High-speed transceivers

High Speed transceivers translate bits into broadband or RF waveforms suitable for transmission on a physical channel (e.g. a fiber link or an antenna system) and process the received waveforms back to bits. The development of high speed transceivers relies on IC design in advanced semiconductor technology and advanced signal generation/processing to compensate for the physical impairments in the channel and the transceiver. 

  • Digital-to-analog converter design in advanced scaled CMOS 
  • Analog and mixed-signal front-end IC design in CMOS, SiGe BiCMOS and InP for optical transceivers: modulator drivers, transimpedance amplifiers (TIAs), clock-and-data recovery (CDR) circuits, serializer-deserializer circuits and equalizers 
  • Modeling, co-design, co-simulation and co-optimization of electronic and photonic circuits 
  • Signal generation and signal processing in the digital, analog or optical domain 
  • Study signal and power integrity on chip and subsystem level 
  • Explore novel device technologies, semiconductor platforms, co-integration schemes and new architectural approaches 
  • Transceiver characterization beyond 100 Gbaud 
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