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Record W2141753131 · doi:10.1109/tim.2007.913760

BER Testing of Communication Interfaces

2008· article· en· W2141753131 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueIEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement · 2008
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicFormal Methods in Verification
Canadian institutionsMcGill University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsAdditive white Gaussian noiseBit error rateComputer scienceField-programmable gate arrayElectronic engineeringGenerator (circuit theory)Channel (broadcasting)Computer engineeringEmbedded systemEngineeringTelecommunicationsPower (physics)

Abstract

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This paper presents a versatile bit-error-rate (BER) testing scheme to characterize the quality of communication interfaces. Traditionally, the presilicon BER is evaluated using time-consuming software simulations. The stand-alone BER test products for postsilicon evaluation are expensive and do not include channel emulators, which are essential to testing the BER under the presence of noise. For both the design and evaluation phases, we present a scheme for BER testing in field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) that consists of a BER tester (BERT) core and a novel additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) generator core. The maximum output value of our AWGN generator is 53, whereas that of the existing solutions is less than 7. Therefore, our generator can better emulate the tail of a Gaussian distribution, which is suitable for exploring applications at very low BERs. We also present a pipelined structure that exploits the central limit theorem for speedups of four or more. Combining a BERT and an AWGN in FPGAs is orders of magnitude more efficient in cost, volume, and energy over the existing similar-speed stand-alone solutions and has a huge speed advantage over software simulations. We demonstrate the applications of our solution through two case studies.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

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metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.893
Threshold uncertainty score0.313

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Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.143
GPT teacher head0.299
Teacher spread0.156 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it