Wireline transceivers

High-bandwidth wireline communication continues to be crucial for many electronic systems today. Numerous research efforts are dedicated to enhance speed, power efficiency, flexibility, and ease-of-use of these transceivers. This session includes some of the latest advances in this domain. The first transceiver paper employs a sub-sampling ring oscillator phase-locked loop (PLL) to obtain a large frequency range with low jitter performance. The PLL is one of the most important blocks in a high-speed I/O link that generates the clocks for the receiver and transmitter of the system. In this paper the transmitter achieves 160fs RMS jitter and 10.9ps total jitter at 15.625 Gbps.