A 10-20GHz Wide Locking Range Multi-Phase Generator PLL for 80Gb/s Serial Data Communication

Author

Young Uk Yim ; Curran, P.F. ; McDonald, J.F.

Author_Institution

Rensselaer Polytech Inst., Troy

fYear

2006

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

An 8-phase 20 GHz PLL has been designed for a serial transceiver. The PLL has a wide locking range from 10 GHz to 20 GHz with a phase noise of -112 dBc/Hz at 10 kHz offset. The PLL uses a four-stage ring oscillator that has a wide tuning range with a feedforward interpolation topology for coarse frequency tuning and a varactor diode load capacitance variation for fine frequency tuning. The PLL is fabricated in 0.13-mum SiGe BiCMOS technology.

Keywords

BiCMOS integrated circuits; Ge-Si alloys; data communication; integrated circuit manufacture; microwave integrated circuits; oscillators; phase locked loops; transceivers; BiCMOS; PLL; SiGe; bit rate 80 Gbit/s; coarse frequency tuning; data communication; feedforward interpolation topology; frequency 10 GHz to 20 GHz; frequency 10 kHz; multiphase generator; ring oscillator; serial transceiver; size 0.13 mum; varactor diode load capacitance variation; Data communication; Frequency; Interpolation; Phase locked loops; Phase noise; Ring oscillators; Topology; Transceivers; Tuning; Varactors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Sarnoff Symposium, 2006 IEEE

Conference_Location

Princeton, NJ

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0002-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SARNOF.2006.4534766

Filename

4534766