Title :
A 16Gb/s area-efficient LD driver with interwoven inductor in a 0.18µm CMOS
Author :
Kuboki, Takeshi ; Ohtomo, Yusuke ; Tsuchiya, Akira ; Kishine, Keiji ; Onodera, Hidetoshi
Author_Institution :
Dept. Commun. & Comput. Eng., Kyoto Univ., Kyoto, Japan
fDate :
Jan. 30 2012-Feb. 2 2012
Abstract :
This paper presents the fastest laser-diode driver with interwoven peaking inductor in 0.18μm CMOS. Six and four inductors are interwoven into two sets of inductors for area-effective implementation as well as performance enhancement. The operation speed enhancement of the proposed circuit is achieved by tuning mutual inductances of interwoven inductors. The circuit area is 0.34-mm2 and the maximum operating speed is 16-Gb/s.
Keywords :
CMOS analogue integrated circuits; driver circuits; inductors; semiconductor lasers; CMOS; area-efficient LD driver; bit rate 16 Gbit/s; interwoven peaking inductor; laser-diode driver; mutual-inductance tuning; operation speed enhancement; performance enhancement; size 0.18 mum; Bandwidth; CMOS integrated circuits; CMOS process; Educational institutions; Inductors; Modulation; Semiconductor device measurement;
Conference_Titel :
Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC), 2012 17th Asia and South Pacific
Conference_Location :
Sydney, NSW
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-0770-3
DOI :
10.1109/ASPDAC.2012.6165018
