Historical Trends in Wireline Communications: 60? Improvement in Speed in 20 Years

In this article, we study historical trends, inflection points, and the dramatic progress that we have witnessed in wireline communications. The trend charts produced here are a result of surveying approximately 400 papers published in the past three decades. We consider mainly bipolar/BiCMOS and CMOS implementations and refer to the former as “bipolar” for the sake of brevity. We also focus on communication in copper media.