• DocumentCode
    3414526
  • Title

    A 4 Gb/s/pin dual-reference simultaneous bidirectional I/O circuit for memory-bus interface

  • Author

    Woo-Seop Kim ; Jung-Hwan Choi ; Jin-Hyun Kim ; Chang-Hyun Kim ; Soo-In Cho ; Suki Kim

  • Author_Institution
    Korea Univ., Seoul, South Korea
  • fYear
    2004
  • fDate
    15-19 Feb. 2004
  • Firstpage
    412
  • Abstract
    This paper proposes a receiver with dual reference levels and a pre-emphasis circuit, which reduces ISI and improves input margin and linearity characteristics by 100% for data communication in memory applications. A test chip fabricated with a 0.10 μm 1.8 V CMOS memory process achieves a data rate of 4 Gb/s/pin.
  • Keywords
    CMOS memory circuits; integrated circuit testing; interference suppression; intersymbol interference; network interfaces; receivers; transceivers; 0.10 micron; 1.8 V; 4 Gbit/s; CMOS memory process; ISI improvement; data communication; data rate; dual reference level receiver; dual-reference simultaneous bidirectional I/O circuit; input margin; linearity characteristics; memory applications; memory-bus interface; pre-emphasis circuit; test chip; Bandwidth; Capacitance; Circuit testing; Crosstalk; Data communication; Driver circuits; Intersymbol interference; Linearity; Pins; Read-write memory;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Solid-State Circuits Conference, 2004. Digest of Technical Papers. ISSCC. 2004 IEEE International
  • ISSN
    0193-6530
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-8267-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ISSCC.2004.1332769
  • Filename
    1332769