An 8.5-11.5Gbps SONET transceiver with referenceless frequency acquisition

Namik Kocaman, Siavash Fallahi, Mahyar Kargar, Mehdi Khanpour, Afshin Momtaz

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Abstract

An 8.5-11.5Gbps SONET transceiver with a referenceless CDR employing an algorithmic frequency acquisition scheme (without using any training sequence) is designed in a 65nm digital CMOS process. A modified digital quadricorrelator frequency detector (M-DQFD) is incorporated into an LC-based VCO coarse tuning adjustment. The transceiver complies with stringent SONET OC-192 jitter requirements. Within a 400μs acquisition time, the RX achieves a high-frequency jitter tolerance of 0.58UIpp at 10mVpp-diff input sensitivity. The TX serial output exhibits a random jitter (RJ) of 205fs (rms). The transceiver occupies 0.97mm2 and consumes 141mA at 1.0V.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings of the IEEE 2012 Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, CICC 2012
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 26 2012
Externally publishedYes
Event34th Annual Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, CICC 2012 - San Jose, CA, United States
Duration: Sep 9 2012Sep 12 2012

Publication series

NameProceedings of the Custom Integrated Circuits Conference
ISSN (Print)0886-5930

Other

Other34th Annual Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, CICC 2012
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySan Jose, CA
Period9/9/129/12/12

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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