Get Started with SerDes Toolbox

SerDes Toolbox™ provides a MATLAB^® and Simulink^® model library and a set of analysis tools and apps for the design and verification of serializer/deserializer (SerDes) systems or high-speed memory PHYs such as DDR5. These models include modulation schemes, such as NRZ, PAM3, PAM4, PAM8, and PAM16, to support industry standards like USB4 2.0 and MIPI A-PHY.

With the SerDes Designer app, you can use statistical analysis to rapidly design wired communications links. The app provides parameterized models and algorithms that let you explore a wide range of equalizer configurations to improve channel performance. You can assess metrics such as eye diagram, bathtub curve, and channel operating margin (COM), including the effects of jitter and crosstalk.

With MATLAB based building blocks such as CTLE, DFE, FFE, and CDR, you can describe your chosen architecture using datasheets or measurement data and simulate control and adaptive algorithms. White-box examples of typical applications such as PCIe, USB, Ethernet, and DDR provide reference designs that you can use as a basis for your own designs.

Tutorials

• Design SerDes System and Export IBIS-AMI Model
  

  Create and analyze a SerDes system, and export an IBIS-AMI model using the SerDes Designer app.

About SerDes Systems

• Fundamentals of SerDes Systems
  

  Basic components that build up a SerDes system.

• Statistical Analysis in SerDes Systems
  

  Customize and explore the statistical analysis of SerDes systems.

• Clock and Data Recovery in SerDes System
  

  Explore the behavior, control and characteristics of a first order clock data recovery (CDR).

• Manage Contents of IBIS and AMI files
  

  Manage the contents of the generated IBIS and AMI files using SerDes IBIS-AMI Manager.

Featured Examples

Find Zeros, Poles, and Gains for CTLE from Transfer Function

Use the CTLE Fitter app to configure a CTLE block from SerDes Toolbox™ in the SerDes Designer app or in Simulink®. You can use the CTLE Fitter app to fit zeros, poles, and gains from a transfer function to create a GPZ Matrix and then export to your workspace. The CTLE Fitter app finds the GPZ Matrix by performing a fit comparison to a transfer function using the rational function from RF Toolbox™.

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Globally Adapt Receiver Components Using Pulse Response Metrics to Improve SerDes Performance

Perform optimization of a set of receiver components as a system using function optPulseMetric to calculate metrics such as eye height, width and channel operating margin (COM) estimate from a pulse response at a target bit error rate (BER) to evaluate the optimal performance of a particular configuration. The adaptation is performed as statistical analysis (Init), then the optimized result is passed to time-domain (GetWave).

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