Title :
A 27Gb/s Forwarded-Clock I/O Receiver Using an Injection-Locked LC-DCO in 45nm CMOS
Author :
Mahony, Frank O. ; Shekhar, Sudip ; Mansuri, Mozhgan ; Balamurugan, Ganesh ; Jaussi, James E. ; Kennedy, Joseph ; Casper, Bryan ; Allstot, David J. ; Mooney, Randy
Author_Institution :
Intel, Hillsboro, OR
Abstract :
This paper describes a method for both filtering and deskewing a link clock using a differential injection-locked LC-DCO and demonstrates a forwarded-clock data receiver using this technique operating at 27 Gb/s.
Keywords :
CMOS digital integrated circuits; clocks; crystal oscillators; injection locked oscillators; CMOS process; bit rate 27 Gbit/s; differential injection-locked LC-DCO; digitally controlled oscillators; forwarded-clock I/O data receiver; size 45 nm; Clocks; Frequency; Injection-locked oscillators; Jitter; Linearity; Phase measurement; Testing; Transceivers; Tuning; Very large scale integration;
Conference_Titel :
Solid-State Circuits Conference, 2008. ISSCC 2008. Digest of Technical Papers. IEEE International
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2010-0
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2011-7
DOI :
10.1109/ISSCC.2008.4523252