DocumentCode
57081
Title
A 13.5-mW 10-Gb/s 4-PAM Serial Link Transmitter in 0.13- 
CMOS Technology
Author
Bongsub Song ; Kyunghoon Kim ; Junan Lee ; Jinil Chung ; Youngjung Choi ; Jinwook Burm
Author_Institution
Dept. of Electron. Eng., Sogang Univ., Seoul, South Korea
Volume
61
Issue
9
fYear
2014
fDate
Sept. 2014
Firstpage
646
Lastpage
650
Abstract
A 13.5-mW 10-Gb/s four-level pulse-amplitude modulation (4-PAM) serial link transmitter is presented. To improve the power efficiency, a voltage-mode 4-PAM driver is proposed. It consists of voltage-scaled pull-up and pull-down networks, instead of conventional current switching networks. Not employing a tail current source, the proposed 4-PAM driver achieves the higher output voltage swing and lower power dissipation than conventional 4-PAM drivers. As a result, the proposed 4-PAM transmitter implemented in a 0.13-μm CMOS process achieved 10-Gb/s data rate with only 13.5-mW power dissipation.
Keywords
CMOS integrated circuits; driver circuits; low-power electronics; pulse amplitude modulation; radio transmitters; 4-PAM serial link transmitter; CMOS process; bit rate 10 Gbit/s; four-level pulse amplitude modulation; power 13.5 mW; power dissipation; pull-down networks; size 0.13 mum; voltage-mode 4-PAM driver; voltage-scaled pull-up networks; CMOS integrated circuits; Generators; Impedance; Power dissipation; Transceivers; Transmitters; Voltage control; CMOS; high-speed integrated circuits; pulse-amplitude modulation (PAM); serial link; transceiver;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, IEEE Transactions on
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
1549-7747
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/TCSII.2014.2331101
Filename
6837466
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