摘要
In the development of transceiver chips for wireline communication, comprehensive instruments are required for measurement and verification. Major manufacturers provides high-speed measurement instruments in the market. These advanced instruments are not only expensive, but having larger size due to their extensive functionalities. To meet the substantial production capacity of wireline SerDes products, the automatic verification platform is indispensable. This work developes a 4∿20-Gb/s broadband bit-error-rate-tester (BERT) chiplet with 9.83 pJ/b efficiency. It fulfills the next-generation BERT module for the automatic test equipment (ATE) of the wireline communication devices.