Advances in Ultra-High-Speed Transceiver IC

Dear Colleagues,

The explosive growth of internet traffic and computing power drives the increasing demand for wireline transceiver data rates. In recent years, various transceiver architectures have been proposed to optimize the link performance in emerging applications. DSP-based transceivers demonstrate robust PAM-4 data transmission on high-loss channels, while the analog counterparts achieve better energy efficiency and lower latency. Although differential signaling provides better signal integrity, single-ended signaling achieves higher bandwidth density in memory interfaces and in-package communications. Simultaneously bi-directional signaling is another attractive technique that doubles the data rate by transmitting and receiving data on the same wire in a full-duplex fashion. Because the loss of electrical channels is proportional to the baud rate and transmission distance, optical links have replaced electrical links in long-reach scenarios. Waveguide links eliminate the frequency-dependent loss and are more energy-efficient than optical links. With the continuous increase in the data rate, broadening analog bandwidth, compensating for heavy channel loss and reducing sampling clock jitter while maintaining reasonable power consumption are challenging.

This Special Issue of Electronics aims to report recent advances in ultra-high-speed transceiver IC, including wireline transceivers achieving outstanding performance, circuit innovations, and new design methodology. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Backplane transceivers
• High-speed memory interfaces
• In-package communications
• Die-to-die chiplet transceivers
• Optical links
• Plastic waveguide links
• Advanced clock and data recovery
• Building blocks for transceivers
• Equalization techniques

Prof. Dr. Weixin Gai
Prof. Dr. Xiaoyan Gui
Prof. Quan Pan
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Electronics is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

• Wireline transceiver
• SerDes
• Simultaneously bi-directional signaling
• Single-ended signaling
• Double data rate (DDR)
• Four-level pulse amplitude modulation (PAM-4)
• Clock and data recovery (CDR)
• Equalizer