Enhanced LVDS for signaling on the RapidIO/sup TM/ interconnect architecture

Low voltage differential signaling (LVDS) is an established signaling standard for data rates up to about 600 Mb/s. The RapidIO interconnect architecture is an emerging protocol that uses LVDS for unidirectional point-to-point communication between two components on a board or in a backplane environment. The simulated performance and design trade-offs of source-terminated LVDS are shown for enhanced data rates of over 2 Gb/s.