12Gb/s duobinary signaling with /spl times/2 oversampled edge equalization

A backplane transceiver in 90 nm CMOS that employs duobinary signaling over copper traces is described. To introduce duobinary signaling into data transfers on printed boards, three techniques are developed: 1) edge equalization for equalizer adaptation; 2) 2/spl times/ oversampled transmitter equalizer for ISI control; and 3) 2b-transition-ensure encoding for clock recovery.