SerDes Toolbox
Design SerDes systems and generate IBIS-AMI models for high-speed digital interconnects
SerDes Toolbox™ provides a MATLAB® and Simulink® model library and a set of analysis tools and apps for the design and verification of serializer/deserializer (SerDes) systems.
With the SerDes Designer app, you can use statistical analysis to rapidly design wired communications transmitters and receivers. The app provides MATLAB based parameterized models and algorithms that let you explore a wide range of equalizer configurations and generate eye diagrams to assess performance metrics.
With building blocks such as CTLE, DFE, FFE, and CDR, you can describe your chosen architecture and simulate control and adaptation algorithms. White-box examples of typical applications such as PCIe, USB, Ethernet, and DDR provide reference designs that you can use as a basis for your own designs.
SerDes Toolbox supports automatic generation of dual IBIS-AMI models. These models can be used with third-party channel simulators for system integration and verification.
Get Started:
SerDes Designer App
Design, configure, and analyze SerDes systems using the SerDes Designer app. Check performance metrics using reports, eye diagrams, bathtub curves, and other visualizations. Generate Simulink and IBIS-AMI models for further refinement and verification. Use MATLAB to automate design and analysis.
The SerDes Designer app.
Building Blocks for Adaptive Equalizers
Use white-box models such as DFE, CTLE, AGC, and CDR to develop adaptive equalizers. Use parametrized blocks and algorithms for single-ended and differential signals. Generate pseudorandom binary sequences (PRBS) and custom stimulus patterns supporting PAM4 and NRZ modulation.
Simulink building blocks for SerDes design.
Statistical Analysis
Perform statistical analysis to compute and visualize eye-contours, bit error rates (BER), bathtub curves, and other metrics using the SerDes Designer app. Explore the design space of your equalization algorithms and channels until you meet the specifications.
Statistical analysis of PAM4 SerDes system.
Time-Domain Simulation
Perform time-domain simulation of adaptive algorithms using customizable Simulink blocks and channel models that capture frequency-dependent attenuation, reflections, and arbitrary impulse responses.
Simulink model generated with the SerDes Designer app for time-domain simulation. System-level configuration (left) and channel parameters (right).
Dual Model Generation
Generate IBIS-AMI statistical (Init) and time-domain (GetWave) algorithmic models with associated analog IBIS models. Customize the model interface by managing IBIS-AMI parameters from the SerDes Designer app and Simulink.
The IBIS-AMI parameter manager allows customization of the generated IBIS-AMI model.
Integration with Third-Party Channel Simulators
Import generated IBIS-AMI models into third-party channel simulators such as SiSoft QCD and QSI, Keysight™ ADS, Synopsys® HSPICE, Mentor Graphics® HyperLynx®, Cadence® Sigrity SystemSI. Use IBIS-AMI models in your verification flow and share them with customers.
QCD simulation results of IBIS-AMI model generated with the SerDes Designer app.
Standards-Compliant Reference Models
Use standards-compliant reference designs of PCIe Gen4, DDR5, and OIF CEI-56G. Get started with reference models and refine them to design next-generation communication protocols using NRZ and higher-order modulation schemes such as PAM4.
PAM4 reference design simulated and analyzed in Simulink.
Channel Impulse Response
Specify impulse response and crosstalk in the SerDes Designer app channel mode
Equalizers Tap Support
Use additional options for introducing and customizing taps in the SerDes IBIS-AMI manager
Jitter and Noise
Include standard compliant jitter and noise specifications in generated AMI files
See release notes for details on any of these features and corresponding functions.
