Automatic within-pair-skew compensation for 6.25 Gbps differential links using wide-bandwidth delay units

Author

Zheng, Yuxiang ; Li, Jiang ; Liu, Jin ; Yu, Qian

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Texas Univ., Richardson, TX

fYear

2006

fDate

21-24 May 2006

Lastpage

2124

Abstract

This paper presents an automatic on-chip skew compensation scheme for within-pair-skew (WPS) in differential high-speed links. The skew compensation is achieved by cascading a series of wide-bandwidth delay cells to obtain constant group delay over the signal bandwidth. A continuous-time correlation circuit with current-mode logic XOR gate followed by a RC low-pass filter is proposed for skew detection. The effects of WPS and the proposed skew compensation scheme have been studied for various time skew and channel attenuation values. Simulation results show that the proposed skew compensation circuits can successfully restore the signal quality close to the condition without WPS, even when the signal with WPS has completely closed eyes

Keywords

current-mode logic; differential detection; high-speed integrated circuits; logic gates; low-pass filters; 6.25 Gbit/s; RC low-pass filter; WPS; XOR gate; automatic compensation; channel attenuation; continuous-time correlation circuit; current-mode logic; high-speed differential links; integrated circuit compensation; on-chip compensation; skew detection; wide-bandwidth delay units; within-pair-skew compensation; Attenuation; Bandwidth; Cable TV; Circuit simulation; Communication cables; Connectors; Costs; Delay; Low pass filters; Signal restoration;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuits and Systems, 2006. ISCAS 2006. Proceedings. 2006 IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Island of Kos

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9389-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCAS.2006.1693036

Filename

1693036