ELEC 4706
High-Speed Electronics: Circuits and Systems
Challenges faced in designing high-speed electronic circuits and systems. Fundamentals of high-speed Tx/Rx architectures including: timing and HDL, PLL/DLL, Tx drivers, interface to photonic components, channel modelling, Rx channel, choice of modulation, equalization, clock and data recovery. VHDL hardware and CAD software laboratories.
Topics
- timing and HDL
- PLL/DLL
- Tx drivers
- interface to photonic components
- channel modelling
- Rx channel
- choice of modulation
- equalization
- clock and data recovery
Course catalogue
2026
Readings
- William Dally, Digital Systems Engineering - Cambridge Publishing - ISBN-13: 978-0521061759 - ISBN-10: 052106175X (Strong reference)
Prerequisites & course information
Prerequisite(s): ELEC 3500 . Lectures three hours a week, laboratory three hours a week.