Title :
Crosstalk mitigation of high-speed interconnects with discontinuities using modal signaling
Author :
Milosevic, Pavle ; Schutt-Ainé, José E. ; Beyene, Wendemagegnehu T.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
Abstract :
In high-speed chip-to-chip single-ended signaling links, far-end crosstalk presents one of the dominant noise sources, limiting the link performance. Diagonalizing the channel using modal decomposition has been proposed to mitigate the crosstalk, but so far only the application to uniform low-loss transmission line channels has been investigated. In this paper, application of modal decomposition to a typical memory bus with discontinuities is presented. The properties of the modes are closely studied to construct the optimum terminations. The proposed approach is verified using statistical link simulation.
Keywords :
crosstalk; signal processing; chip-to-chip single-ended signaling link; crosstalk mitigation; dominant noise source; high speed interconnects; link performance; low loss transmission line channel; modal decomposition; modal signaling; statistical link simulation; typical memory bus; Crosstalk; Decoding; Propagation constant; Resistors; Resonant frequency; Scattering parameters; Transmission line matrix methods; Crosstalk mitigation; modal decomposition; multiconductor transmission lines;
Conference_Titel :
Electrical Performance of Electronic Packaging and Systems (EPEPS), 2010 IEEE 19th Conference on
Conference_Location :
Austin, TX
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-6865-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-6866-9
DOI :
10.1109/EPEPS.2010.5642534