100-Gb/s 2/sup 7/-1 and 54-Gb/s 2/sup 11/-1 PRBS generators in SiGe bipolar technology

This paper presents two monolithic pseudorandom bit sequence (PRBS) generators. One circuit uses a seven-stage shift register operating with a half-rate clock and provides output signals up to 100 Gb/s. The second circuit contains an eleven-stage shift register operating with a full-rate clock up to 54 Gb/s. Both PRBS generators provide a wide range of data rates down to below 1 Gb/s simply by cha...