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Abstract

A system level integration of simulation methods for high data-rate transmission circuit design applications is developed in this paper. While the elementary circuit theory was responsible for designing the circuits to meet the required performance specifications, three dimensional full-wave electromagnetic simulation technique was adopted to characterize the off-chip parasitic effects induce from the packages. The developed technique was applied for the design of optical Pick-Up Head (PUH) driver circuitry and a data transmission rate up to 640Mega bits per second (Mb/s) was achieved with standard 0.35 μm CMOS technology, showing the promising feature of applying such technique in successful design for high data-rate transmission circuits.

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Dr. Heng-Shou Hsu

Dr. Heng-Tung Hsu