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Design and Simulate SerDes Systems

Design and simulate SerDes systems using the SerDes Designer app

High-speed electronic systems suffer from signal degradation caused by various impairments such as impedance mismatch, attenuation, and cross talk. Using the equalization and gain modulation blocks in the SerDes Toolbox™, you can compensate for the distortions introduced by the lossy channels.

Starting with theSerDes Designerapp, you can design the top-level SerDes systems and perform statistical analysis. Use the building blocks and system objects to design, configure, simulate and analyze the SerDes system including the transmitter and the receiver.

Apps

SerDes Designer Design and analyze SerDes systems for export to Simulink, MATLAB and IBIS-AMI

Blocks

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DFECDR Decision feedback equalizer (DFE) with clock and data recovery (CDR)
CDR Models a clock data recovery circuit
FFE Models a feed-forward equalizer
CTLE Models continuous time linear equalizer (CTLE)
AGC Automatically adjusts gain to maintain output waveform amplitude
VGA Models a variable gain amplifier
SaturatingAmplifier Models a saturation amplifier
PassThrough Propagates baseband signal without modification
Analog Channel Construct loss model from channel loss metric or impulse response
配置 Configure system wide settings in a SerDes system model
Eye Diagram Scope Display eye diagram of time-domain signal
Stimulus Set pseudorandom binary sequence (PRBS) pattern and number of symbols to simulate in SerDes model

Objects

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serdes.DFECDR Decision feedback equalizer (DFE) with clock and data recovery (CDR)
serdes.CDR Performs clock data recovery function
serdes.FFE Models a feed-forward equalizer
serdes.CTLE Continuous time linear equalizer (CTLE) or peaking filter
serdes.AGC Automatically adjusts gain to maintain output waveform amplitude
serdes.VGA Models a variable gain amplifier
serdes.SaturatingAmplifier Models a saturating amplifier
serdes.PassThrough Propagates baseband signal without modification
serdes.ChannelLoss Create simple lossy transmission line model

Topics

Fundamentals of SerDes Systems

Basic components that build up a SerDes system

Design SerDes System and Export IBIS-AMI Model

This example shows how to use the SerDes Designer app to create and analyze a SerDes system, and create the IBIS-AMI models for the transmitter and receiver from Simulink®.