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    This document provides an overview and introduction to the EE290C - Spring 2011 High-Speed Electrical Interface Circuit Design course. The course will focus on circuit design for modern electrical interfaces and will involve both transistor-level and system-level design. Students will work in groups to design a high-speed interface over 10Gb/s as their course project. The document outlines the course prerequisites, grading breakdown, schedule, and syllabus topics which will include link environments, signaling, timing, and support functions for high-speed circuit design.

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    EE290C Spring 2011

    High-Speed Electrical Interface Circuit Design Lecture 1: Introduction

    Elad Alon Dept. of EECS

    Course Focus
    Focus:
    Circuit design for modern electrical interfaces

    Interfaces (links) are now complex, mixedsignal communication systems


    Will do a lot of transistor-level design But will be tightly coupled to system-level design

    Goal:
    Learn how to design an optimized link given a target application
    EE290C Lecture 1 2

    Administrative
    Course web page:
    http://bwrc.eecs.berkeley.edu/classes/icdesign/ee290c_s11

    Webcast link:
    http://webcast.berkeley.edu

    Office hours
    519 Cory Hall Tues. 9-10am, Thurs. 11am-12pm

    All announcements made through web page


    Check back often
    EE290C Lecture 1 3

    Course Prerequisites
    Minimum: EE141, EE240
    EE241 helps too, but not necessarily required

    Assume you are familiar with:


    Basic data converters (at level of EE240 project EE247 not required) Verilog/VHDL Basic transmission lines (EE117)

    Exposure to communications & signal processing helpful


    But deep expertise not required will cover important points of what we need
    EE290C Lecture 1 4

    Lecture Notes
    Based on slide from Prof. Borivoje Nikolic, Prof. Vladimir Stojanovic (MIT), Jared Zerbe (Rambus), and myself Primary source of material for the class
    No required text

    Notes posted on the web at least 1 hour before lecture


    Will hand out limited # of hard copies in class
    EE290C Lecture 1 5

    Some References
    Digital Systems Engineering W.J. Dally, J.W. Poulton, Cambridge University Press, 1998.

    Design of High-Performance Microprocessor Circuits Edited by A. Chandrakasan, W. J. Bowhill, F. Fox, IEEE Press, 2001
    Chapter on high-speed signaling and I/O design

    Design of Integrated Circuits for Optical Communications B. Razavi, McGraw-Hill, 2002 Papers from:
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference
    Lecture 1 6

    EE290C

    Grading
    Grading:
    HW: 30% Will have 3-4 assignments Essential for learning the class material Project: 60% Will design a complete high-speed (>10Gb/s) interface Groups of 3-4
    Will want wide range of skills - form your groups now

    Presentations: 10% Will give two project-related presentations First at project half-way point Second at project end

    No exams
    But dont take course lightly will be a lot of work
    EE290C Lecture 1 7

    Homework
    Homework:
    Can discuss/work together But write-up must be individual Drop in box outside Elads office (519 Cory) Generally due 5pm on Thursdays

    No late submissions
    Start early!

    EE290C

    Lecture 1

    Schedule Notes
    ISSCC Week: 2/21 - 2/25 (no lectures) Spring break: 3/21 3/25 Project:
    Will be broken into 3-4 parts Check on the website for updates First presentations: ~1st week of April Final presentations: RRR week

    EE290C

    Lecture 1

    Shouldnt This Be Really Easy?

    This really is a link


    (Although maybe not the best one)

    Seems like it should be really easy to build


    So why have this class at all?

    Look at where/how links are really used


    EE290C Lecture 1 10

    Lots of Data on the Move


    NSFnet 1992, D. Cox, R. Patterson, NCSA

    Backbone Router Rack

    PC or Console
    EE290C Lecture 1 11

    Links Are Everywhere


    NSFnet 1992, D. Cox, R. Patterson, NCSA

    Backbone Router Rack

    PC or Console
    EE290C Lecture 1 12

    Inside of a Router (ca. 2006)


    Line Cards: 8 to 16 per System Passive Switch Cards: Backplane 2 to 4 per System

    MEM MEM

    MEM MEM

    MEM MEM

    MEM MEM

    SerDes SerDes

    Crossbar Crossbar

    Optics Optics

    SerDes

    MAC MAC

    NPU NPU

    TM/ TM/ Fabric Fabric IF IF

    SerDes SerDes

    OC-192 10Gb/s Laser driver link

    4x3.125 Gb/s XAUI Serial Links (chip-to-chip)

    3.125-12.5Gb/s Backplane Serial Links

    EE290C

    Lecture 1

    13

    Inside of a Router (ca. 2011)


    Line Cards: 8 to 16 per System Passive Switch Cards: Backplane 2 to 4 per System

    MEM MEM

    MEM MEM

    MEM MEM

    MEM MEM

    SerDes SerDes

    Crossbar Crossbar

    Optics Optics

    SerDes

    MAC MAC

    NPU NPU

    TM/ TM/ Fabric Fabric IF IF

    SerDes SerDes

    OC-768 40Gb/s Laser driver link

    4x10 Gb/s Serial Links (chip-to-chip)

    6.25-25Gb/s Backplane Serial Links

    No extra wires/cables, minimal changes to PCB


    But everything needs to run faster
    EE290C Lecture 1 14

    Not Just Routers


    Chip-to-chip signaling
    Computers, games: DDR, DDR2: 100-400Mb/s RDRAM 800-1600Mb/s XDR DRAM 3.2-6.4Gb/s

    Board-to-board signaling:
    Computers, peripherals: PCI (66-133-400MHz), PCI Express (2.5Gb/s 10Gb/s) USB (10Mb/s 10Gb/s)

    Constant desire to signal faster at same or lower power


    No matter where the links are
    EE290C Lecture 1 15

    So What Was Wrong With This?

    In principle, nothing
    As long as the wire is short enough And get the right clock at both TX and RX

    When is a wire short enough? How to get the right clocks?


    EE290C Lecture 1 16

    What a Link Needs to Do


    Get bits from the TX to the RX (Signaling)

    Determining which bit is which (Timing)

    EE290C

    Lecture 1

    17

    Backplane Signaling At 2-3Gb/s (Past)


    Linecard
    Serdes

    Backplane

    Linecard
    Serdes

    0.0 1.0

    0.2

    0.4

    0.6

    0.8

    1.0

    [GHz]

    Signal at Tx

    2Gb/s view of the channel


    0.1

    Signal at Rx

    Other than knowing about transmission lines


    Wire (channel) wasnt an issue up to 2-3Gb/s

    Good old days on-chip circuits set speed limits


    Lots of publications on how to make them faster
    EE290C Lecture 1 18

    Backplane Signaling At 10+Gb/s (Today)


    Linecard
    Serdes

    Backplane

    Linecard
    Serdes

    0.0 1.00

    1.0

    2.0

    3.0

    4.0

    5.0

    [GHz]

    0.10

    Signal at Tx

    0.01

    Signal at Rx

    0.00

    10Gb/s view of the channel

    Channel now degrades the signal significantly Improvements in channel tend to be costly
    Short-distance optics vs. electrical debate ~15 years old Electronics usually bear the burden
    EE290C Lecture 1 19

    To Make Life Even More Fun

    Need to achieve all of this within tightly limited power, area budgets
    With lots of noisy digital blocks nearby And with transistor scaling running out of steam
    EE290C Lecture 1 20

    Good News
    Many opportunities for multi-disciplinary innovation
    Circuits, communications, optimization, E&M,

    Will learn how to build (one of) most efficient comm. systems in existence
    Best designs use only ~0.5-2mW per Gb/s of throughput

    Techniques broadly applicable


    Even if you end up working on RF, biosensors, dataconverters, etc.
    EE290C Lecture 1 21

    Syllabus
    Link Environment
    Channels: physical components, models Link performance evaluation

    Signaling
    Transmitters, receivers Equalizer types, circuits Adaptation algorithms and implementations

    Timing
    Clocking and link types Clock and data recovery (CDR) PLLs, DLLs, and phase interpolators

    Support functions
    Supply regulation Mixed-signal design verification

    Advanced topics (if time permits)


    EE290C Lecture 1 22

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