학위논문(석사) -- 서울대학교대학원 : 공과대학 전기·정보공학부, 2023. 2. 정덕균.In this thesis, a design of high-speed single-ended PAM-4 receiver with adaptive nonlinearity compensating techniques for DRAM test is proposed. The receiver incorporates 3 parallel Cherry-Hooper continuous-time linear equalizers (CTLEs) and a 1-tap 9-coefficient adaptive decision feedback equalizer (DFE). CTLEs provide a variable gain with offset-canceling calibration. The DFE detects the level separation mismatch ratio (RLM) of the transmitted data and nonlinear distortion within the receiver analog front-end (AFE). The nonlinearity is compensated by simultaneously adapting 9 coefficients of the nonlinearity compensator. The proposed receiver is fabricated in the 40nm CMOS technology, oc...