The Race for Efficiency in Short Wireline Video

Abstract: Information explosion and its exponentially increasing demands on data traffic and processing are pushing a rapid and diverse evolution in short reach wireline interconnect technologies. In the background of this race, CMOS technology is not providing the usual node over node boost in performance to help SerDes designers cope with higher bandwidth and data rates. Breakthroughs in high speed electrical interconnect and new approaches in optical interconnect, such SiPho, NPO (near package optics) and CPO (co-packaged optics) promise improved performance, energy efficiency and density. How are these new technologies going to address the ever more complex energy efficiency and density problems facing our industry?