A 2-chip 1.5 Gb/s bus-oriented serial link interface

Author

Walker, R. ; Wu, J.-T. ; Stout, C. ; Lai, B. ; Yen, C.-S. ; Hornak, T. ; Petruno, P.

Author_Institution

Hewlett-Packard Lab., Palo Alto, CA, USA

fYear

1992

fDate

19-21 Feb. 1992

Firstpage

226

Lastpage

227

Abstract

The authors report a monolithic transmitter and receiver chip pair which implements a full-duplex virtual ribbon cable interface. For short-distance applications, on-chip equalizer is provided to allow use of coaxial cables rather than a more costly fiber link. The chips require no external frequency-determining elements or user adjustments and operate over a range of 600 to 1500 MHz using an on-chip VCO (voltage-controlled oscillator). Only one in-package capacitor per chip is required. A state-machine controller (SMC) is also implemented on the RX chip to transparently handle a start-up handshake protocol. This is the highest-speed-link-interface chipset reported to date at this level of functionality and integration.<>

Keywords

mixed analogue-digital integrated circuits; optical communication equipment; variable-frequency oscillators; 1.5 Gbit/s; 600 to 1500 MHz; BER; RX chip; bus-oriented serial link interface; chip pair; coaxial cables; fiber link; full-duplex virtual ribbon cable interface; in-package capacitor; on-chip VCO; on-chip equalizer; receiver chip; short-distance applications; start-up handshake protocol; state-machine controller; transmitter chip; two chip chipset; two chip link interface; voltage-controlled oscillator; Baseband; Circuits; Clocks; Coaxial cables; Coaxial components; Computer interfaces; Decoding; Local area networks; Sliding mode control; Voltage-controlled oscillators;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Solid-State Circuits Conference, 1992. Digest of Technical Papers. 39th ISSCC, 1992 IEEE International

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-0573-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISSCC.1992.200494

Filename

200494