The ever-increasing demand for bandwidth triggered by mobile and video Internet traffic requires advanced interconnect solutions satisfying functional and economic constraints. A new interconnect called E-TUBE is proposed as a cost-and-power-effective all-electrical-domain wideband waveguide solution for high-speed high-volume short-reach communication links. The E-TUBE achieves an unprecedented level of performance in terms of bandwidth-per-carrier frequency, power, and density without requiring a precision manufacturing process unlike conventional optical/waveguide solutions. The E-TUBE exhibits a frequency-independent loss-profile of 4 dB/m and has nearly 20-GHz bandwidth over the V band. A single-sideband signal transmission enabled by the inherent frequency response of the E-TUBE renders two-times data throughput without any physical overhead compared to conventional radio frequency communication technologies. This new interconnect scheme would be attractive to parties interested in high throughput links, including but not limited to, 100/400 Gbps chip-to-chip communications.
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机译:由移动和视频Internet流量触发的对带宽的不断增长的需求需要满足功能和经济约束的高级互连解决方案。提出了一种称为E-TUBE的新型互连,作为具有成本效益的全电域宽带波导解决方案,用于高速大容量短距离通信链路。与传统的光学/波导解决方案不同,E-TUBE在每载波带宽,功率和密度方面实现了前所未有的性能水平,而无需精密的制造过程。 E-TUBE的频率损耗曲线为4 dB / m,在V波段具有近20 GHz的带宽。与传统的射频通信技术相比,通过E-TUBE固有的频率响应实现的单边带信号传输可提供两倍的数据吞吐量,而无任何物理开销。对于对高吞吐量链接感兴趣的各方(包括但不限于100/400 Gbps芯片对芯片通信),这种新的互连方案将有吸引力。
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