E E 526 - High Speed Communication Circuits

(3 units)

Prerequisite: Open to Engineering MS and Electrical Engineering MS students only.
Design of integrated circuits for high speed data communication. Serial communication standards. Transceiver architecture. High speed and broadband circuit design techniques. Serializer, deserializer, clock recovery circuits. Channel equalization. Jitter and channel interference issues.

Letter grade only (A-F). (Lecture-problems 3 hours)