Understanding System Reliability for Serial Links

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What to Expect

In today's serial I/O environment, the increased demand for faster interconnection links, ultra reliable systems and continually shrinking power budgets present design engineers with significant challenges. When combined with testing challenges in such hostile backplane environments, a deeper understanding of high-speed serial link design is required.

This webinar will examine the design and test methodologies for ensuring system reliability and Bit Error Rate (BER) requirements so they can be met with confidence.

What will be discussed:

• The impact of jitter on BER (random, bounded, periodic, data dependant...)
• The pitfalls of BER estimation
• Commonly misunderstood laboratory measurement practices

About the Presenters

Dr. Andrew S. Wright is the Director of Product Research at PMC-Sierra and currently focuses on developing sustaining wireless technology developments. Prior to joining PMC-Sierra, Dr. Wright was the co-founder and CTO of Datum Telegraphic, a company specializing in signal processing solutions for 3G wireless systems.

Dr. Wright has authored numerous IEEE journal articles and patents. He is also a member of the IEEE.

Stuart Robinson is the Product Marketing and Applications Manager of PMC-Sierra's Enterprise and Storage Division and manages a broad portfolio of multi-gigabit SERDES and retimer products.

Prior to his current position, Mr. Robinson was actively involved in strategic marketing efforts for the company's 10 Gigabit products as well as ATM, Ethernet and SONET optical networking technologies.

Who Should Attend

Signal Integrity Engineers, Backplane Designers, Serial Designers, Design Engineers, Network Architects, Product Line Managers, Engineering Management and Marketing Managers

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