High speed and low power transceiver design with CNFET and CNT bundle interconnect

In this paper, a low power capacitive 4-PWAM transmitter architectures and circuits design using Carbon Nanotube Field Effect Transistor (CNFET) and Carbon Nanotube bundle interconnects is presented along with its performances analysis considering random jitter and PVT variations. A novel technique is proposed to reduce power and to increase speed by using capacitive driven low swing transceiver. The proposed transceiver design saves power by factor of 5.7~6.4 and accomplishes 4 times higher data rate than the conventional CMOS technology designs. To implement 4-PWAM transmitter, new phase controller and adaptive capacitance network are designed while new architectures are proposed for PWM and PAM demodulation at the receiver side.