Challenges in Modelling and Verification of Transmitter Circuits for Advanced Mobile Storage Physical layer

Abstract

Abstract: Flash memory is a key component of today’s mobile phones providing embedded storage for text and media and removable storage for a variety of purposes e.g. Video. Many standard bodies support mobile storage e.g. sdcard.org, Universal flash storage org. Mobile storage today is evolving continuously with ever increasing bandwidth and capacity demands. IP Blocks and Technologies Groups specializes in providing Host controller and Physical Layer solution for variety of mobile devices including phones, tablets, laptops/ultra-books Current project is focusing on Physical layer design and verification – which consists of Digital Frontend (DFE) including Serial/De-serializer, encoding, decoding schemes, and an analog front-end (AFE) which consists of Transmitter/Receiver Circuits. The Phy also includes PLL, Clock Distribution and Compensation circuits to support DFE and AFE. The focus of the current project is to develop methodology and techniques to validate transmitter circuit for mobile storage comprehensively.
DOI: 10.17762/ijritcc2321-8169.150667