In this webinar you'll learn how MATLAB® and RF Toolbox™ fit into signal integrity engineering.

Reliable data transmission between semiconductor devices in modern high-speed systems requires a mini-communication system consisting of the transmitting chip output pin driver, the PCB traces and backplane, and the receiver chip input pin circuitry.

We'll demonstrate a typical signal integrity workflow: First characterize the backplane with N-port network parameters, and then use RF Toolbox to build a behavioral model of the channel impairment. Finally, design the high-speed semiconductor I/O circuitry. Specifically, you:

• Measure the network parameters with a vector network analyzer
• Import the Touchstone data file
• Convert one or more paths from a set of single-ended N-port S-parameters to 2-port differential S-parameters
• Compute the transfer function
• Fit the transfer function to a closed-form rational function model, reducing the order as needed
• Export the model to Simulink or in Verilog-A format for use as a test environment for Model-Based Design or in the SPICE-like analog circuit simulator, which you use to design the I/O circuitry

Colin Warwick RF Product Manager

Dr. Colin Warwick is RF Product Manager at The MathWorks, Inc. He is focused on tools that leverage RF theory and techniques to solve challenges in signal integrity and wireless communication engineering. Prior to joining The MathWorks, he worked on wireless communications as a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at Bell Labs research in Holmdel, New Jersey. He also designed devices for phased-array radar as Senior Scientific Officer at the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment in Malvern, England. Colin has authored twelve patents, and completed his bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees in physics at the University of Oxford, England.