A 9.8 Gbps, 6.5 mW forwarded-clock receiver with phase interpolator and equalized current sampler in 65 nm CMOS

A full-rate energy-efficient forwarded-clock (FC) receiver is demonstrated in this paper. A current sampler with continuous-time equalization is realized with 20 GHz bandwidth in sampling for data recovery. Moreover, a phase interpolator is introduced to generate sampling clock with deskew for data recovery. The testing chip was fabricated in 65 nm CMOS process in area of 0.16 mm². Measurement shows that the FC receiver can achieve a data-rate up to 9.8 Gbps and power consumption is 6.5 mW.