%0 Electronic Article %A J.H. Sinsky %A A. Gnauck %A B. Kozicki %A S. Sercu %A A. Konczykowska %A A. Adamiecki %A M. Kossey %K low-loss Megtron 6 electrical backplane %K bit rate 42.8 Gbit/s %K four-level pulse amplitude modulated data %K early-late gate timing recovery %K PAM-4 data transmission %K bit error rate performance %K serial transmission rate %K finite-impulse-response-based least-mean-squares equaliser %X Demonstrated is a record serial transmission rate of 42.8 Gbit/s by sending four-level pulse amplitude modulated (PAM-4) data over a low-loss Megtron 6 electrical backplane. The data is processed and equalised using early–late gate timing recovery and a finite-impulse-response-based least-mean-squares equaliser. Bit error rate performance is reported over several different links. %@ 0013-5194 %T 42.8 Gbit/s PAM-4 data transmission over low-loss electrical backplane %B Electronics Letters %D September 2012 %V 48 %N 19 %P 1206-1208 %I Institution of Engineering and Technology %U https://digital-library.theiet.org/;jsessionid=16n9i6l5z16nj.x-iet-live-01content/journals/10.1049/el.2012.1226 %G EN