High-Speed Link Simulation Using X Parameters, Volterra Series and the Laten-cy Insertion Method (LIM)

Jose Schutt-Aine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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In today's high-speed communication era, humongous data throughput are being routed through communication channels. Circuit design and analysis techniques have become more challenging and will remain a critical component in insuring the success and viability in the design of short-range high-speed input/output links. Because of the large amount of data, the simulation of such systems is a daunting task. Present systems require bit error rates in the order of 10¹⁵. A deterministic simulation of such a large number of bits would require several thousand years using a modern-day computer. We propose to use the Blue Waters computational platform to explore the feasibility of simulating high-speed serial links. By properly combining the computational powers of the Blue Waters system with new algorithms developed in our research group, we plan to reduce the computational time by several orders of magnitude and make the design cycle for high-speed links more manageable.