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Cable Bending Impact to High-Speed SERDES

2024· article· en· W4406014806 on OpenAlex
Din Abdullah, Abdul Rahim

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Venuenot available
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicMaterial Properties and Processing
Canadian institutionsAdvanced Micro Devices (Canada)
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSerDesBendingStructural engineeringComputer scienceElectrical engineeringEngineeringTelecommunications

Abstract

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PAM4 modulation such as PCIE6 link is prone to voltage noises due to reduction on signal to noise ratio to 9.6dB relative to NRZ signaling. One of the biggest contributors to voltage degradation is due to signal reflection at interconnect and mode-conversion cause by imbalanced in channel properties such as impedance variations and delay. This paper investigates intra-pair skew due to cable bending empirically using lab measurements. Firstly, the main concern for cable skew is on common-to-differential mode conversion since it will add as noise at differential receiver. Our studies indicated a small increase of Sdc21by 3dB for different bending cases compared to baseline thus alleviated the concerns of increase Sdc21 cause by cable bending. Secondly, excessive cable bending can cause damage or change of electrical properties such as characteristic impedance and propagation delay. Our studies indicated cable bending cause small impedance discontinuities of 1 to 2-ohm at locality of the bending. This studies also suggest cable impedance variations at location of bending to be modelled into end-end simulation. We also observed negligible differential propagation delay variations of <1 ps for all four cases. Effective intra-pair skew (EIPS) is also <3ps which is within PCIe Gen6 cable requirements. Simulations suggested negligible impact to margins since the cable impedance and skew variations are still within the expected high-volume manufacturing (HVM) variations and tolerances. These studies suggest there are possibility to bend cable beyond cable manufacture recommendation in a very tight system yet still passing the performance requirement. However, it is advice for system architect to work closely with cable vendor on mechanical and reliability risks. Cable vendor may have options to recommend a different option such as cable jackets reinforcement or other options.

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metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.235
Threshold uncertainty score0.998

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Opus teacher head0.010
GPT teacher head0.235
Teacher spread0.225 · 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

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