Sub-picosecond jitter SiGe BiCMOS transmit and receive PLLs for 12.5 Gbaud serial data communication

Author

Friedman, D. ; Meghelli, M. ; Parker, Brendon ; Ainspan, H. ; Soyuer, M.

Author_Institution

IBM Thomas J. Watson Res. Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA

fYear

2000

fDate

15-17 June 2000

Firstpage

132

Lastpage

135

Abstract

Fully integrated SiGe BiCMOS transmit and receive PLLs for 8B/10B coded 10 Gb/s serial links operate with excellent jitter characteristics. The transmit PLL (TxPLL) provides a 12.5 GHz clock with 0.4 ps rms jitter synthesized from a /spl sim/195.3 MHz reference. The receive PLL (RxPLL), which exhibits <0.56 ps rms jitter generation, extracts a full rate clock and recovers data from a 12.5 Gb/s input bit stream. The RxPLL operates error-free when tested with a 14 km optical link test bench. The power consumption of the TxPLL and RxPLL cores at 3.3 V are 270 mW and 330 mW, respectively.

Keywords

BiCMOS digital integrated circuits; Digital phase locked loops; High-speed integrated circuits; MMIC; Optical fiber communication; Optical receivers; Optical transmitters; Semiconductor materials; Timing jitter; 10 Gbit/s; 12.5 GHz; 12.5 Gbit/s; 14 km; 195.3 MHz; 270 mW; 3.3 V; 330 mW; RxPLL; SiGe; TxPLL; error-free operation; fully integrated SiGe BiCMOS; jitter characteristics; power consumption; receive PLL; serial data communication; sub-picosecond jitter SiGe BiCMOS receive PLL; sub-picosecond jitter SiGe BiCMOS transmit PLL; transmit PLL; BiCMOS integrated circuits; Clocks; Data mining; Energy consumption; Germanium silicon alloys; Jitter; Optical fiber communication; Phase locked loops; Silicon germanium; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

VLSI Circuits, 2000. Digest of Technical Papers. 2000 Symposium on

Conference_Location

Honolulu, HI, USA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6309-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VLSIC.2000.852870

Filename

852870