A novel half-rate architecture for high-speed clock and data recovery

A bang-bang half-rate architecture is presented for high-speed random input clock and data recovery. In contrast to the conventional half-rate architectures, which contain two separated full-rate phase detectors and additional complicated logic and clock distribution circuits, the proposed architecture utilizes a genuine half-rate phase detector and eliminates the logic circuits. Therefore, it significantly simplifies the circuit complexity. A SiGe clock and data recovery circuit using this architecture is designed with 40Gb/s input data rate.