Fast FPGA-based Serial Receiver Design

This paper describes a fast serial digital signal receiver for applications in nuclear instrumentation. The proposed design uses a Microsemi Polarfire FPGA embedded Ethernet transceiver for data oversampling (with frequency up to 12.7 GHz) and deserialization. The subsequent FPGA implemented digital signal processing chain then analyses the oversampled data array (at least 4 samples per data bit a...