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Invited lecture
Trends and technical challenges for High Speeds Serial Communications on copper and optical media
Ivan Bietti
R&D Director High Speed Interface Centre STMicroelectronics
ABSTRACT -
In the last years the usage of High Speed Serial Communications has largely widened in the overall electronics space. Furthermore, the need of transferring large amount of data in short time has caused a relentless increase of the data rates.
In this talk an overview of the diverse fields of application for serial communications will be given: spanning from the consumer standards (i.e PCIexpress, Serial-ATA, USB3, Thunderbolt up to 10Gb/s) to the enterprise standards where Fiber Channel or Ethernet PHYs are already faster than 20Gb/s.
In the short/mid reach, up to 100mt cables or 1mt backplane, copper links are the large majority, but they require a significant amount of signal processing to properly pre-equalize the transmitted signal and to recover clock and data at the receiver end.
An overview of the transceiver architecture, analog, digital or mixed, will be given and how it better fit the data communication scheme: NRZ or PAM.
The talk will analyze the technical challenges to design robust and low power transceivers. In particular the trade-offs between data-rate and connection length (signal attenuation) will be addressed.
In the end, the present trend to move part of the copper based links to optical will be described. A trend which is already well established for very long reach communications. Eventually Silicon Photonics, a promising technology to reduce costs and complexity in the usage of optical links, will be briefly presented.
SPEAKER -
Ivan Bietti was born in Cremona, Italy, in 1967. He received the degree in electronic engineering from the University of Pavia in 1992. In the same year he joined SGS-Thomson Microelectronics Agrate, where he was involved in the design of analog and mixed analog/digital integrated circuits for telecommunications. From 1996 to 1998 he was in Dublin, Ireland, working in the Computer and Peripherals Group designing analog CMOS filters, equalizers and PLLs for Disk Drives Read/Write Channels. In 1999 he joined the Radio Frequency group within the "Studio di Microelettronica" in Pavia where he led a research group working on the design of CMOS high speed Frequency Synthesizers and Low Noise Amplifiers mainly for mobile phone applications. In 2005 he moved to Grenoble, taking the responsibility of the Consumer High Speed Serial Interfaces development for the overall STMicroelectronics. This activity has been extended to the serial enterprise interfaces for networking applications in 2009.
Ivan Holds about 10 US patents, mainly in the telecommunications area and published 25 papers in international conferences mostly on analog high speed signal processing.
In 2008 he became a member of the International Technical Program Committee (ITPC) for the international Solid State Circuit Conference (ISSCC).
Invited lecture
Challenges and perspectives in nanoscale electromagnetics
Sergey A. Maksimenko
Institute for Nuclear Problems, Belarus State University, Minsk, Belarus
ABSTRACT -
A great progress has been achieved during last two decade
in the synthesis and fabrication of different nanostructured artificial materials with fascinating mechanical,
electronic and optical properties irreducible to properties of bulk media. Accompanied by the impressive parallel
development of the characterization techniques and measurement instrumentation, this process necessitates the revision
of traditional concepts of physics and chemistry of condensed matter, adapting them to peculiarities of the nanoworld
and significantly extending our knowledge of the nature of solids and our capabilities to control their properties.
A new research discipline - nanoelectromagnetics - is introduced as a synthesis of macroscopic electrodynamics and
microscopic theory of electronic properties of different nanostructures. The approach is exemplified by carbon nanotubes
as prospective components of high-frequency electric circuits and briefly touches upon other nanocarbon forms.
SPEAKER -
Sergey A. Maksimenko received the M.S. degree in physics of heat and mass transfer in 1976, the Ph.D. degree in theoretical physics in 1988, both from Belarus State University (BSU), Minsk, Belarus, and the Doctor of Science degree in theoretical physics in 1996 from the Institute of Physics, Belarus Nat. Acad. Sci. Since 1992 he has been working as head of the Laboratory of electrodynamics of nonhomogeneous media at the Institute for Nuclear Problems, BSU. He also teaches at the BSU physical department. He has authored or coauthored more than 150 conference and journal papers. In 2003, 2004 and 2006 years he co-chaired conferences "Nanotubes and nanowires", "Nanomodelling" and "Nanomodelling II" as parts of SPIE's 48th and 49th Annual Meetings, and SPIE's Optics & Photonics, respectively. He is SPIE Fellow and he is the Associate Editor of the Journal of Nanophotonics. His current research interests are electromagnetic wave theory and electromagnetic processes in quasi one- and zero-dimensional nanostructures in condensed matter and nanocomposites with the focus on nanocarbon.
Participates in a number of international research projects, coordinator of EU FP7 project FP7-226529 BY-NANOERA.Participates in a number of international research projects, coordinator of EU FP7 project FP7-226529 BY-NANOERA.
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