• DocumentCode
    1616062
  • Title

    A Scalable 3.6-to-5.2mW 5-to-10Gb/s 4-tap DFE in 32nm CMOS

  • Author

    Lidong Chen ; Xuguang Zhang ; Spagna, F.

  • Author_Institution
    Intel, Santa Clara, CA
  • fYear
    2009
  • Firstpage
    180
  • Lastpage
    181
  • Abstract
    This paper presents a power-scalable 5-to-10Gb/s 4-tap DFE that provides further power savings by using three circuit techniques: 1:2 demultiplexed current- integrating summer, sense-amplifier (SA) latched-decision feedback, and fully differential current-recycled DACs (l-DACs).
  • Keywords
    CMOS integrated circuits; decision feedback equalisers; digital-analogue conversion; low-power electronics; summing circuits; bit rate 5 Gbit/s to 10 Gbit/s; decision-feedback equalization; demultiplexed current-integrating summer; fully differential current-recycled DAC; power 3.6 mW to 5.2 mW; power saving circuit technique; scalable 4-tap DFE; sense-amplifier latched-decision feedback; size 32 nm; Adders; Bit error rate; CMOS technology; Clocks; Decision feedback equalizers; Intersymbol interference; Latches; Output feedback; Solid state circuits; Strontium;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Solid-State Circuits Conference - Digest of Technical Papers, 2009. ISSCC 2009. IEEE International
  • Conference_Location
    San Francisco, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-3458-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ISSCC.2009.4977367
  • Filename
    4977367