Design and simulation of a PCI Express Gen 3.0 communication channel

PCI Express (PCIe) is a serial interconnect technology, developed by the PCI-Sig organization, which provides high bandwidth data transmission with the added benefits of reduced board space requirements, smaller connectors and simplified PCB layouts. Since faster and faster data rates are more desirable, PCIe Gen 3.0 attempts to transmit data at 8GT/s. As part of the thesis work, an existing model of a PCIe channel which connects two controller boards over a backplane, was simulated and measured under PCIe Gen 2.0 speeds (5GT/s). The resulting data from these tests were used to provide the basis for improving the model to make it function under PCIe Gen 3.0 specifications. This was achieved by exploring new receiver equalization techniques and transmitter de-emphasis and board characteristics. An integrated circuit manufacturer's model was used as the base model for PCIe Gen 2.0. This model was further developed to simulate Gen 3.0 speeds. Simulation software tools such as HSPICE, Ansoft HFSS, Ansoft Via Wizard 3.0 and MATLAB were utilized. A simulation model of the system functioning under PCIe Gen 3.0 specifications was successfully developed by using CTLE equalization technique.

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2010

Author dc:creator

• Warnakulasuriyarachchi, Dilini (Dilini M.)

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Scott Westbrook and Vladimir Stojanovic.

• Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

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eng

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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/61581

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