High-Speed CMOS Circuits for Optical Receivers

The exponential growth of the number of Internet nodes has suddenly created a widespread demand for high-speed optical and electronic devices, circuits, and systems. The new optical revolution has replaced modular, general-purpose building blocks by end-to-end solutions. Greater levels of integration on a single chip enable higher performance and lower cost. The mainstream VLSI technologies such as BiCmos and CMOS continue to take over the territories thus far claimed by GaAs and InP devices. This book describes the design of high-speed electronic circuits for optical communication using modern techniques in a low-cost CMOS process.