Passive compensation for high performance inter-chip communication

This paper develops a novel high-speed inter-chip serial signaling scheme with leakage shunt resistors and termination resistors between the signal trace and the ground. For given abstract topology transmission line based on the data for IBM high-end AS/400 system[1] [2], we put termination resistors at the end of receiver and adjust the shunt and termination resistors value to get the optimal distortion-less transmission line. Analytical formulas are derived to predict the worst case jitter and eye-opening based on bitonic step Response Assumption[3]. Our schemes and the other two comparison cases are discussed.

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