Reference is made to the article “A 4.8-6.4 Gbps Serial Link for Back-plane Applications
using Decision Feedback Equalization” by the same inventors identi? ed herein, pub lished
at Proceedings of the IEEE 2004 Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, pages 31-34,
October 2004, the content of Which is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety.
Copper traces on printed circuit boards (PCBs) are used as data channels to transmit digital
data from a transmitting unit to a receiving unit on the PCB. These traces exhibit several loss …