Overview
What you will study
The Mastering High-Speed Serial I-O Technology course offered by University of Oxford helps engineers master electrical signal analysis and hardware debug at data rates from 2.5 to 400 Gb/s.
- See how three key innovations—differential signaling, clock recovery, and equalization— enabled today’s high data rates; why they’re needed, how they work, and possible alternatives.
- Master the physical causes of signal distortion—loss, reflections, ISI (inter-symbol interference), crosstalk, and all types of jitter and noise—how to identify them, how to correct them, and, when necessary, how to live with them.
- Understand how signals behave in both the time and frequency domains and how to measure and interpret S-parameters, waveforms, eye diagrams, BER (bit error ratio) contours, and bathtub plots using oscilloscopes, VNAs (vector network analyzers), TDR (time-domain reflectometry), BER testers, and spectrum and phase noise analyzers.
- Explore the bandwidth-complexity tradeoff between NRZ and PAM4 signaling schemes for lane rates of 50+ Gb/s and the new measurement techniques for evaluating PAM4 signals along with the pros and cons of forward error correction (RS-FEC). Using examples from cutting edge technologies – PCIe, OIF-CEI, SATA, Fiber Channel, 50-400 Gigabit Ethernet
Programme Structure
The program focuses on:
- Multi-gigabit technology
- Waveforms, digits, and degradation
- Errors, jitter, and noise
- Clocks and Clock Recovery
- Crosstalk
- Equalization, SNDR, COM, and ERL
- High speed standards compliance and diagnostic testing
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 3 days
Start dates & application deadlines
Course dates are not yet confirmed.
Language
Delivered
Disciplines
Electrical Engineering View 11 other Short Courses in Electrical Engineering in United KingdomWhat students do after studying
Academic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.
Student insurance
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- Accidents
- Legal aid
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Other requirements
General requirements
- This 3-day intensive course is for research, design, manufacturing, system, and test engineers; digital and RF engineers; scientists and university students in electrical engineering and physics.
Tuition Fee
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International
1525 GBP/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 1525 GBP for the full programme during 3 days. -
National
1525 GBP/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 1525 GBP for the full programme during 3 days.
Living costs for Oxford
The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.