The Torches and the Hair

This DesignCon 2003 discussion panel hosted by Henri Merkelo of AtSpeed Technologies had to do with advanced transceiver architectures for high-speed backplane applications.

On behalf of Accelerant Networks, I warmed up the audience with a 10 -minute summary of the case for multi-level signaling (specifically PAM-4) in the backplane environment. This presentation differs from my earlier DesignCon 2000 conceptual presentation ("Multi-Level Signaling") because here I get to show actual measured eye patterns using the Accelerant PAM-4 transceiver operating at 6  Gb/s on an ordinary serial backplane that was originally designed for only 2.5 Gb/s.

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