Digital signal transmission over lossy and dispersive channels: Eye diagrams; Eye closure; crosstalk, and jitter; Synchronization: clock and data recovery circuits using phase locked loops and delay locked loops; Equalization: Transmit pre-emphasis, Receive feedforward equalization, and decision feedback equalization; Integrated circuit implementation of broadband amplifiers for transmission and reception, feedforward and decision feedback equalization, clock and data recovery circuits, multiplexers, and demultiplexers.