Artificial Bee Colony Optimization to Accelerate High-Speed Serial I/O Tx Equalization

• Published in: Proceedings - IEEE VLSI Test Symposium pp. 1 - 5
• Main Authors: Sanchez-Martinez, Cesar A., Lopez-Meyer, Paulo, Viveros-Wacher, Andres
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 28.04.2025
• Subjects: Approximation algorithms; artificial bee colony; Artificial bee colony algorithm; Eye Margins; Heuristic algorithms; HSIO; Optimization; Proposals; Space exploration; Technological innovation; Testing; Tx Equalization; Very large scale integration; Visualization

A critical activity during electrical testing for High-Speed Serial l/O is the search for optimal Tx equalization settings that yield the cleanest eye diagram possible. Typical practices consist of performing an exhaustive grid search over two variables to define the best solution region, known as t...