Inductor-less, 10Gb/s limiter with 10mV sensitivity and offset/temperature compensation in baseline CMOS18

Author

Sanduleanu, Mihai A T ; Stikvoort, Eduard

Author_Institution

Philips Res. Eindhoven, Netherlands

fYear

2003

fDate

16-18 Sept. 2003

Firstpage

153

Lastpage

156

Abstract

The paper presents an inductor-less 10Gb/s limiting amplifier with offset and temperature compensation for high-speed data communications realized in a baseline CMOS process. For achieving the sensitivity required in long-haul applications (SONET/SDH) a new technique described as slew-boosting is introduced. A balanced integrator circuit amplifies the offset from the output and feeds back a correct signal at the input for the offset compensation. The limiter has been implemented in the standard CMOS18 process. The measured sensitivity of the circuit is 10mV@10GB/s. The circuit can work up to 12Gb/s with reduced performance. At 10Gb/s and 10 mV input, the output amplitude is 300mV with 2.5ps jitter-rms and rise/fall times of 17 ps. The active area of the circuit without bonding pads is 0.8/spl times/0.5mm/sup 2/ and the power consumption is 144mW from a 1.8V supply voltage at room temperature.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; SONET; amplifiers; compensation; high-speed integrated circuits; integrating circuits; limiters; sensitivity analysis; synchronous digital hierarchy; 1.8 V; 10 Gbit/s; 10 mV; 144 mW; 17 ps; 300 mV; SDH; SONET; balanced integrator circuit; baseline CMOS process; baseline CMOS18; circuit sensitivity; high-speed data communications; inductorless limiting amplifier; long-haul applications; offset compensation; slew-boosting technique; temperature compensation; Bonding; CMOS process; Data communication; Energy consumption; Feeds; Integrated circuit measurements; SONET; Synchronous digital hierarchy; Temperature sensors; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Solid-State Circuits Conference, 2003. ESSCIRC '03. Proceedings of the 29th European

Conference_Location

Estoril, Portugal

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7995-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ESSCIRC.2003.1257095

Filename

1257095