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High-Pass Filter bandwidth Consideration for 8b/10b coding
May 13th, 2009, 8:33pm
 
How we calculate the necessary HPF bandwidth for a 1Gb/s 8b10b coded NRZ bit stream?

I think in some spec it is defined as 75nF and 50ohm. What's the theory behind this number?
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Reply #1 - May 17th, 2009, 11:07am
 
whats the spectral content of 8b/10b at a particular data rate?

Might want to look at that in the frequency domain and my guess is that the answer will fall out of that.
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Reply #2 - May 21st, 2009, 9:06pm
 
Is there a pre-able or some training waveform?

The data rate x # of training bits will set your HPF settling requirement, relative to your Comparator / ADC resolution.

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Reply #3 - Jun 29th, 2009, 2:41am
 
Hi neoflash?

I guess what you need is AC couple between the transmitter and receiver. What Jerry said was correct. You must look at the spectral of the bit stream.

8b10b coding is used to scramble the bit stream in order to avoid consecutive 1's or 0's longer than 5 bit. I don't remember very clear, perhaps 4 bit. But the detailed length of 0's or 1's is not important. As well known, long length of consecutive 0's or 1's deteriorate the inter symbol interference (ISI). It is one kind of deterministic jitter in serial data communication. So the 8b10 coded bit stream does not have low-frequency spectral. Probable that is the theory what you want to know.


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Reply #4 - Jul 11th, 2009, 1:01am
 
I did not remember it exactly but I guess the lower corner is 1/8 of the brutto baudrate. The design approach is to limit the DC-wander. So each of the 256 codes have a specific DC content. You can interprete the high pass filter as a integrator as feedback element. So a long sequence of symbols which have the highest number of ones or zeros change the DC-value of the feedback integrator. The DC-value reduce the useable eye-size. So independend of the integrator value a long sequence of the critical symbol will set the limit.
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Reply #5 - Jul 12th, 2009, 2:23pm
 
DC wander is something I'm worrying about.

One question is that 8B10B coding is defined as DC balanced. However, it is hard to define the low end of spectrual content.

By the way, what is the definition of brutto baud rate?

rf-design wrote on Jul 11th, 2009, 1:01am:
I did not remember it exactly but I guess the lower corner is 1/8 of the brutto baudrate. The design approach is to limit the DC-wander. So each of the 256 codes have a specific DC content. You can interprete the high pass filter as a integrator as feedback element. So a long sequence of symbols which have the highest number of ones or zeros change the DC-value of the feedback integrator. The DC-value reduce the useable eye-size. So independend of the integrator value a long sequence of the critical symbol will set the limit.

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