Xilinx_Ansoft_design_white_paperDesigning For Signal Integrity You can use the Xilinx/Ansoft 10 Gbps Backplane Design Kit to predict interconnect performance. by Suresh Sivasubramaniam Senior Design Engineer Xilinx, Inc. suresh.subramaniam@xilinx.com Once the transfer characteristics of the physical channel are well understood, you can effectively employ features such as transmit pre-emphasis/voltage swing and receive equalization (Figure 2) to overcome losses and attenuation in the channel, thus ensuring high signal integrity at the receiver. MK322 Evaluation Board Case Study The MK322 platform is the primary board used for the electrical evaluation and characterization of the RocketIO X high-speed serial multi-gigabit transceivers in Virtex-II Pro X FPGAs. This board was specifically designed to evaluate and test the R……