Transceivers for 40 Gb/s Data Transmission over 50 m of Coaxial Cable

该项目的目标是以40 Gb/S的速度进行数据通信，相当于25个并行频道的未压缩高清晰度数字电视，超过50米的电视电缆。这大约比当前最先进的水平高一个数量级，接近电缆容量的理论极限。将寻求两种潜在的系统架构。第一种需要大功率发射器来克服电缆的损耗。第二种依靠复杂的信号处理来恢复噪声数据。研究人员是多伦多大学数字通信应用高频集成电路设计领域的两位世界领先者。该项目将利用多伦多大学独特的测试设施进行高频集成电路表征。研究生将利用世界上最先进的制造技术。在为期3年的项目过程中，将为加拿大1300亿美元的信息和通信技术部门培训8-10名高素质人员。*同时，研究成果将赋予加拿大通信电子行业强大的竞争优势。该项目得到了安大略省伯灵顿的Gennum Corporation的支持，该公司是视频传输和数字通信集成电路的行业领先者。

The goal of this project is to communicate data at 40 Gb/s, equivalent to 25 parallel channels of uncompressed high-definition digital television, over 50 meters of television cable.  This is roughly one order of magnitude beyond the current state-of-the-art and close to the theoretical limit of the cable's capacity.  Two potential system architectures will be pursued.  The first requires a high-power transmitter to overcome the cable's losses.  The second relies on sophisticated signal processing to recover the noisy data. The investigators are two world-leaders in the areas of high-frequency integrated circuit design for digital communication applications at the University of Toronto.  The project will leverage the University of Toronto's unique test facilities for high-frequency integrated circuit characterization.  Graduate students will make use of the world's most advanced fabrication technologies.  During the course of the 3-year project, 8 - 10 highly qualified personnel will be trained for Canada's $130-billion information and communications technologies sector.  At the same time, the research results will confer a strong competitive advantage in communications electronics to Candadian industry.  The project is supported by Gennum Corporation of Burlington, Ontario, an industry leader in video transport and digital communications integrated circuits.