A 5-Gb/s low-power transmitter with voltage-mode output driver in 90nm CMOS technology

Author

Rhim, Jinsoo ; Choi, Woo-Young

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Yonsei Univ., Seoul, South Korea

fYear

2011

fDate

17-18 Nov. 2011

Firstpage

231

Lastpage

234

Abstract

A 5-Gb/s low-power transmitter having an output impedance calibration circuit and a voltage-mode output driver is implemented for high-speed serial link applications. The output impedance calibration circuit matches the output impedance of output driver to the characteristic impedance of the channel. This transmitter includes 32:1 serializer based on voltage-mode logic which operates successfully at 5-Gb/s. In addition, on-chip parallel PRBS7 (2⁷-1) generator is implemented for testing. The transmitter consumes 8.6mW with 300mVp-p output swing and occupies 60 μm × 70 μm of area.

Keywords

CMOS digital integrated circuits; calibration; driver circuits; electric generators; electric impedance; integrated circuit testing; low-power electronics; network-on-chip; transmitters; CMOS technology; high-speed serial link application; low-power transmitter; on-chip parallel PRBS7 generator; output impedance calibration circuit; size 90 nm; voltage-mode logic; voltage-mode output driver; low power; output-impedance calibration; transmitter; voltage-mode output driver;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

SoC Design Conference (ISOCC), 2011 International

Conference_Location

Jeju

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0709-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4577-0710-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISOCC.2011.6138752

Filename

6138752