0.37mW/Gb/s low power SLVS transmitter for battery powered applications

Author

Youngkyun Jeong ; Yoon-Chul Choi ; Eun-Ji Choi ; Seogheon Ham ; Kee-Won Kwon ; Young-Hyun Jun ; Jung-Hoon Chun

Author_Institution

Coll. of Inf. & Commun. Eng., Sungkyunkwan Univ., Suwon, South Korea

fYear

2012

fDate

20-23 May 2012

Firstpage

1955

Lastpage

1958

Abstract

A power-efficient voltage-mode transmitter for battery powered mobile applications was designed. The proposed transmitter consists of a power optimized 16:2 serializer, a data-aligner, 2:1 multiplexing pre-driver, and an I/O driver with segment control for impedance matching. With scalable low-voltage signaling (SLVS) with the output swing of 200mVp-p and power optimization for digital blocks, 0.37mW/Gb/s power consumption was achieved. The test chip for 4.8 Gb/s interfaces was designed in a 65nm 1.2V supply CMOS logic process. The proposed I/O specifications are appropriate for MIPI M-PHY systems.

Keywords

CMOS logic circuits; driver circuits; impedance matching; low-power electronics; multiplexing equipment; radio transmitters; 2:1 multiplexing predriver; CMOS logic process; I/O driver; MIPI M-PHY systems; battery powered mobile applications; data aligner; impedance matching; low power SLVS transmitter; power optimized 16:2 serializer; scalable low voltage signaling; segment control; size 65 nm; voltage 1.2 V; voltage mode transmitter; Batteries; Clocks; Impedance; Impedance matching; Mobile communication; Multiplexing; Power demand;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), 2012 IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Seoul

ISSN

0271-4302

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0218-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCAS.2012.6271658

Filename

6271658