What is NRZ?

Non-return-to-zero: the most basic signaling scheme, sending 1 bit per symbol with two voltage levels.

Field: I/O Interfaces & Buses

NRZ in the explanations

Questions that mention NRZ (2)

  1. Why does forward error correction (FEC) become more important with PAM4 than with NRZ?
  2. What is a characteristic of PAM4 (four-level pulse amplitude modulation), adopted in PCI Express 6.0?

Related terms

PAM4 PCI Express ECC (error-correcting code) 128b/130b encoding 8b/10b encoding AXI Bit error rate (BER) Characteristic impedance Clock and data recovery (CDR) Compute Express Link (CXL)

Back to the glossary