This paper presents a CML transceiver for a PCI-express generation 2 physical layer protocol that has been fabricated by SMIC's 0.13μm CMOS technology.The active area of the transceiver is 0.016 mm^2 and it consumes...This paper presents a CML transceiver for a PCI-express generation 2 physical layer protocol that has been fabricated by SMIC's 0.13μm CMOS technology.The active area of the transceiver is 0.016 mm^2 and it consumes a total of 150 mW power at a 1.2 V supply voltage.The transmitter uses two stage pre-emphasis circuits with active inductors,reducing inter-symbol interference and extended bandwidth;the receiver uses a time-domain adaptive equalizer,the circuit uses an inductive peaking technique and extends the bandwidth,and the use of active inductors reduces the circuit area and power consumption effectively.The measurement results show that this circuit could stably transmit the signal at the data rate of 5 Gbps,the output signal swing of the transmitter is 350 mV with jitter of 14 ps,the eye opening of the receiver is 135 mV and the eye width is 0.56 UI.The circuit performance sufficiently meets the requirements of the PCI-Express 2.0 protocol.展开更多
This paper presents a 0.18μm CMOS 6.25 Gb/s equalizer for high speed backplane communication. The proposed equalizer is a combined one consisting of a one-tap feed-forward equalizer (FFE) and a two-tap half-rate de...This paper presents a 0.18μm CMOS 6.25 Gb/s equalizer for high speed backplane communication. The proposed equalizer is a combined one consisting of a one-tap feed-forward equalizer (FFE) and a two-tap half-rate decision feedback equalizer (DFE) in order to cancel both pre-cursor and post-cursor ISI. By employing an active-inductive peaking circuit for the delay line, the bandwidth of the FFE is increased and the area cost is minimized. CML-based circuits such as DFFs, summers and multiplexes all help to improve the speed of DFEs. Measurement results illustrate that the equalizer operates well when equalizing 6.25 Gb/s data is passed over a 30-inch channel with a loss of 22 dB and consumes 55.8 mW with the supply voltage of 1.8 V. The overall chip area including pads is 0.3 × 0.5 mm^2.展开更多
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.60676016)
文摘This paper presents a CML transceiver for a PCI-express generation 2 physical layer protocol that has been fabricated by SMIC's 0.13μm CMOS technology.The active area of the transceiver is 0.016 mm^2 and it consumes a total of 150 mW power at a 1.2 V supply voltage.The transmitter uses two stage pre-emphasis circuits with active inductors,reducing inter-symbol interference and extended bandwidth;the receiver uses a time-domain adaptive equalizer,the circuit uses an inductive peaking technique and extends the bandwidth,and the use of active inductors reduces the circuit area and power consumption effectively.The measurement results show that this circuit could stably transmit the signal at the data rate of 5 Gbps,the output signal swing of the transmitter is 350 mV with jitter of 14 ps,the eye opening of the receiver is 135 mV and the eye width is 0.56 UI.The circuit performance sufficiently meets the requirements of the PCI-Express 2.0 protocol.
文摘This paper presents a 0.18μm CMOS 6.25 Gb/s equalizer for high speed backplane communication. The proposed equalizer is a combined one consisting of a one-tap feed-forward equalizer (FFE) and a two-tap half-rate decision feedback equalizer (DFE) in order to cancel both pre-cursor and post-cursor ISI. By employing an active-inductive peaking circuit for the delay line, the bandwidth of the FFE is increased and the area cost is minimized. CML-based circuits such as DFFs, summers and multiplexes all help to improve the speed of DFEs. Measurement results illustrate that the equalizer operates well when equalizing 6.25 Gb/s data is passed over a 30-inch channel with a loss of 22 dB and consumes 55.8 mW with the supply voltage of 1.8 V. The overall chip area including pads is 0.3 × 0.5 mm^2.