December 1, 2019. LCAS successfully accomplished development of an extremely high-throughput wireline link for next generation high-performance computing systems. Collaborating with industrial partner, the LCAS team developed new signaling schemes and circuit topologies in order to enhance the communication bandwidth at very low level of energy consumption. Targeting 100 Gb/s, this research work showed that energy consumption can be reduced down to 1.2 pJ/b for ultra-short reach channels. This type of channels are widely used in modern chip-to-chip communications.
