Yeshik Shin

1.04 GBd low EMI digital video interface system using small swing serial link technique

In a high-resolution flat panel system, a conventional interface that directly connects a liquid crystal display (LCD) controller to a flat panel cannot overcome the problems of excess EMI (electromagnetic interference) and power caused by full-swing transmission signals in parallel lines. This paper presents a high-speed digital video interface system implemented with a low-cost standard CMOS (complimentary metal-oxide-semiconductor) technology that can mitigate EMI and power problems in high-resolution flat panel display systems. The combined architecture of the high-speed, small number of parallel lines and low-voltage swing serial interface can support resolutions from VGA (640/spl times/480 pixels) up to XGA (1024/spl times/768 pixels) with significant power improvement and drastic EMI reduction. To support high-speed, low-voltage swing signaling and overcome channel-to-channel skew problems, a robust data recovery system is required. The proposed digital phase-locked loop enables robust skew-insensitive data recovery of up to 1.04 GBd.

Design and implementation of OTCA MAC protocol for high-speed point-to-point ring network

In this paper, we describe the design and implementation of OTCA (ownership-tagged cell allocation) MAC protocol for a unidirectional slotted ring network with a distributed fair medium access. A point-to-point (p2p) interconnection network in a ring topology with a high-speed serial link and the sharing of network bandwidth among multiple communicating nodes offers a very promising low cost solution in the growing gigabit communication system, where it is a challenge to run high quality real-time multimedia. Some services have explicit timing requirements. The OTCA MAC protocol provides the deterministic network behavior guaranteeing the worst latency bound and the minimum bandwidth availability. On a 1.063 Gpbs p2p ring network comprising 4 nodes, the OTCA MAC protocol ensures a bandwidth of 265 Mbps for synchronous data, 232 Mbps for asynchronous data (thus a total of 497 Mbps for a mode), and the worst medium access latency is bounded with 17.46 us.