Recent advances in high-speed serial I/O trends, standards and techniques

The goal of this paper is to provide the reader with an overview of the recent advances (in the past year) made in the industry with respect to high-speed data transport. The latest developments in the industry's main high-speed I/O protocols and the attempted standardization of the high-speed physical interface are presented. In reviewing these advanced techniques, examples will use the basic circuit-level building blocks within a high-speed serial transceiver and will give the basics behind the design techniques required to successfully design and implement a typical multi-Gigahertz serial I/O device