Title :
A wide bandwidth sige broadband amplifier for 100 Gb/s Ethernet applications
Author :
Mukherjee, Tonmoy S. ; Howard, Duane C. ; Cressler, John D. ; Kornegay, Kevin T.
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Georgia Inst. of Technol., Atlanta, GA, USA
Abstract :
We present a low-voltage, low-power SiGe broadband amplifier with a bandwidth of 62 GHz, which is intended for use in 100 Gb/s Ethernet applications. The amplifier consumes only 125 mW from a 2.5 V supply. To the authors´ knowledge this is the lowest reported power for a non-distributed amplifier with more than 60 GHz bandwidth in a SiGe process technology.
Keywords :
Ge-Si alloys; local area networks; low-power electronics; wideband amplifiers; Ethernet application; SiGe; bandwidth 62 GHz; bit rate 100 Gbit/s; low-power amplifier; low-voltage amplifier; nondistributed amplifier; power 125 mW; voltage 2.5 V; wide bandwidth broadband amplifier; Bandwidth; Broadband amplifiers; Circuits; Energy consumption; Ethernet networks; Germanium silicon alloys; Optical amplifiers; Radiofrequency amplifiers; Semiconductor device measurement; Silicon germanium; 100 Gb/s; CDR; Cherry-Hooper; SiGe; low-power; low-voltage; wireline;
Conference_Titel :
Circuits and Systems, 2009. ISCAS 2009. IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Taipei
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3827-3
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3828-0
DOI :
10.1109/ISCAS.2009.5118135
