Acreo Uses Visual System Simulator™ to Successfully Optimize System Performance of Complex UWB Transceiver

The need for higher capacities within Internet infrastructure is driving the demand for network architectures capable of supporting 100Gb/s Ethernet (IP) based traffic. One such bandwidth-efficient technology being explored is sub-carrier multiplexing (SCM), where quadrature modulated (QAM) signals on different carrier frequencies are combined and subsequently encoded onto an optical carrier. This transceiver approach capitalizes on the increasing speed of silicon technology (65nm complementary metal oxide semiconductor CMOS process on HR-SOI substrate) to perform more of the signal processing in the electrical domain before converting to light.