High speed broadband digital communication over lossy and dispersive media such as backplanes, optical fibers, or ethernet cables needs equalization at either end of the communication link to achieve low bit error rates. We have worked on linear and decision feedback equalizers for backplane and multi mode fiber links. We are investigating various types of passive and active high speed equalizers with a focus on compact and low power realizations.

• S. Pavan, “Power and Area Efficient Adaptive Equalization at Microwave Frequencies”, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I : Regular Papers, July 2008.(paper)
• S. Pavan, “Power and Area Efficient Analog Adaptive Equalization”, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Seattle, May 2008.(paper)
• K. Balemarthy and S. Pavan, “Signal Processing for Optical Fiber Communication”, Tutorial at the National Conference on Communication, February 1-3, Bombay, India.slides
• S. Pavan, “Singly Terminated Transmission Line Filters for High Speed Adaptive Equalization”, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, ISCAS, May 2007, New Orleans.(paper)
• S. Pavan and R. Tiruvuru, “Analysis and Design of Singly Terminated Transmission-Line FIR Adaptive Equalizers” IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems : Regular Papers, February 2007. (paper)
• T. Rajesh and S. Pavan, “Transmission Line based FIR Structures for High Speed Adaptive Equalization,” IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, ISCAS 2006, Kos, Greece , May 2006.(paper) (slides)
• S. Pavan and S. Shivappa,“ Nonidealities in Traveling Wave and Transversal FIR Filters Operating at Microwave Frequencies ”, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems : Regular Papers , January 2006. (paper)
• S. Pavan and S. Shivappa,“ Analysis of Traveling Wave and Transversal Analog Adaptive Equalizers”, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, ISCAS 2005, Kobe , May 2005.(paper) (slides)
• N. Krishnapura, M. Barazande-Pour, Q. Chaudhry, J. Khoury, K. Lakshmikumar, A. Aggarwal, “A 5Gb/s NRZ Transceiver with Adaptive Equalization for Backplane Transmission”, IEEE International Solid State Circuits Conference, pp. 60-61,585, Feb. 6-9 2005, San Fransisco, USA.(paper, slides)
• S. Pavan, “ Continuous-Time Integrated FIR Filters at Microwave Frequencies”, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-II, Analog and Digital Signal Processing, January 2004. (paper)