Seminars

Simplifying Serial Link Design & Standards

Achieving Electrical Sign-off of High-Speed Serial Links and Standards

A full-day Seminar detailing design and analysis techniques for achieving robust operation above 5 Gbps and compliance with third-generation standards such as PCI Express (PCIe), USB 3.0, and SATA, pre-hardware. This Seminar covers design and sign-off considerations for serial links from an electrical layer and signal integrity perspective.

There are thousands of pages of serial standards to wade through, yet they're all similar electrically. This one-day Seminar helps engineers quickly understand how to succeed with the design and validation of serial interfaces by detailing the similarities and nuances of the various standards. And while standards tend to specify compliance in a post-hardware setting, new methodologies, modeling techniques and tools now make it possible to validate compliance before hardware is built. Proper design techniques for silicon, package, board and system are covered.

The Seminar is helpful for Signal Integrity and Hardware Engineers, System Validation and Silicon Test Engineers, and the Managers of these organizations.

Serial link design concepts are covered in the first two morning sessions, laying the foundation to take a deeper look at standards and compliance in the afternoon sessions. While the concepts presented comprehend over a dozen serial standards, particular focus is given to PCIe, SATA, and USB (additional standards available upon request).  The day is concluded with a short look at the future covering issues and techniques associated with higher data rate links (>10 Gbps).

The Seminar is taught by Donald Telian, who has spent the last 12 years focused entirely on the design and adoption of high-speed serial links and standards.  After running SI Consulting at Cadence, he was called upon to integrate the first high-speed SerDes models into an EDA environment in 2001.  He then worked with a team of SI experts to bring the first system-level million-bit serial link simulation environment to the open market in 2004.  In 2005 he became an independent SI Consultant with SiGuys, helping customers succeed implementing the industry’s rapid transition to serial links.  His customers now have thousands of links in production spanning dozens of standard and proprietary signaling schemes.

This Seminar is taught on-site at your facility. Please Contact us to arrange a Seminar for your company or organization.