Title

Automotive SerDes PCS Design and PAM-4 Receiver BER Characterization With RS-FEC and Correlated Noise

Alternative Title

RS-FEC 및 상관 잡음 환경에서의 자동차용 SerDes PCS 설계와 PAM-4 수신기 BER 특성 분석

DGIST Authors

Songi Cheon ; Gain Kim ; Kyoungtae Lee

Advisor

김가인

Co-Advisor(s)

Kyoungtae Lee

Issued Date

2026

Awarded Date

2026-08-01

Type

Thesis

Description

Automotive SerDes, physical coding sublayer (PCS), Reed-Solomon forward error correction (RS-FEC), PAM-4 signaling, FPGA validation, decision-feedback equalizer (DFE), correlated noise, burst error, 9b10b line coding

Table Of Contents

List of Contents
Abstract i
List of Contents ii
List of Figures iv
List of Tables v

Ⅰ. Introduction 1
1.1 Background and Motivation 1
1.2 Thesis Organization 4

ⅠⅠ. Background 6
2.1 Physical Coding Sublayer 6
2.2 Reed-solomon Forward Error Correction 8

III. PCS Design and FPGA Validation 12
3.1 RS-FEC Implementation 12
3.1.1 Overall Architecture and 3-slice Mapping 12
3.1.2 CRC-Assisted RS Encoder 13
3.1.3 RS Decoder Architecture and Pipeline Flow 14
3.1.4 Syndrome Generation and Berlekamp-Massey Implementation 15
3.1.5 Parallel Chien Search and Forney Algorithm 16
3.2 Scrambler and 9b10b Encoder Implementation 18
3.3 Experimental Setup and Verification Platform 20

IV. Modeling and Simulation of PAM-4 Receiver with RS-FEC 22
4.1 FFE and DFE Structures 22
4.2 Noise Environment 26
4.3 Simulation Results 27

V. Conclusion 33

URI

https://scholar.dgist.ac.kr/handle/20.500.11750/60805
http://dgist.dcollection.net/common/orgView/200001007642

DOI

10.22677/THESIS.200001007642

Degree

Master

Department

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Publisher

DGIST

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