EE290C: High-Speed Electrical Interfaces

Spring 2004



Class Schedule

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Lecture notes will be posted at least 1 hour before the lecture.

Week Lecture Date Day Lecture Notes Instr Due Reading
1 1 Jan. 20 Tues Introduction  Lecture1 (pdf) BN   Chapter 1
2 Jan. 22 Thurs Channels Lecture 2 (pdf) JZ   Chapter 3
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3 Jan. 27 Tues Channels 
Measurements
Lecture 3 (pdf) BC Chapter 3
4 Jan. 29 Thurs Communication techniques Lecture 4 (pdf) JZ
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5 Feb. 3 Tue Communication techniques
Adaptation
Lecture 5 (pdf) VS

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Feb. 5 Thu Components
Equalizers
Lecture 6 (pdf) BN
4 7 Feb. 10 Tues Components
Transmitters/Receivers
Lecture 7 (pdf) JZ
8 Feb. 12 Thurs Components
PLLs/DLLs
Lecture 8 (pdf) BN Hwk #1
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9 Feb. 17 Tues ISSCC Proceedings
10 Feb. 19 Thurs ISSCC Proceedings
6 11 Feb. 24 Tues ISSCC Presentations Students
12 Feb. 26 Thurs ISSCC Presentations Students
7 13 Mar. 2 Tues Components
PLLs
Lecture 13 (pdf) BN
14 Mar. 4 Thurs Components
Viterbi decoders
Lecture 14 (pdf) BN
8 15 Mar. 9 Tues Components
CDR
Lecture 15 (pdf) JZ
16 Mar. 11 Thurs Components
DFE
Lecture 16 (pdf) BN Hwk #2
9 17 Mar. 16 Tues FEC
Parity, Reed-Solomon
Lecture 17 (pdf) BN
18 Mar. 18 Thurs FEC
Reed-Solomon, LDPC
Lecture 18 (pdf) BN
March 22-March 26: Spring Break
10 19 Mar. 30 Tues System tradeoffs
Clocking, serial/parallel
Lecture 19 (pdf) JZ
20 Apr. 1 Thurs Case studies
1000BaseT/10GBaseT 
Lecure 20 (pdf) BN
11 21 Apr. 6 Tue Midterm reviews Midterm reports
22 Apr. 8 Thu Budgeting
BER analysis
Lecture 22 (pdf) VS
12 23 Apr. 13 Tues Case studies
PRML
Lecture 23 (pdf) BN
24 Apr. 15 Thurs Case studies
VDSL
Lecture 24 (pdf) BN
13 25 Apr. 20 Tues Case studies
History of T1 and DSL
No handouts MG
26 Apr. 22 Thurs Case studies
XAUI, PCI Express
Lecture 26 (pdf) JZ Hwk #3
14 27 Apr.  27 Tu Case studies
Optical channels 
Lecture 27 (pdf) BN
28 Apr. 29 Th Case studies
Optical receivers
Lecture 28 (pdf) BN
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29-30 May 11 Tu Project Presentations 2:30-5:30pm, BWRC Project reports