ISSCC 2019
Session 30
Wireline I/O
A 32Gb/s 2.9pJ/b Transceiver for Sequence-Coded PAM-4 Signalling with 4-to-6dB SNR Gain in 28nm FDSOI CMOS
Intel, Santa Clara, CA 1 2 Multilevel signaling such as PAM-4 makes more efficient use of the better part of the channel response by mapping multiple bits in the same time interval (i.e. UI). At the same time, to achieve
ISSCC 2019
Session 30
Wireline I/O
A 25.6Gb/s Uplink-Downlink Interface Employing PAM-4-Based 4-Channel Multiplexing and Cascaded CDR Circuits in Ring Topology for High-Bandwidth and Large-Capacity Storage Systems
Yuji Satoh, Makoto Morimoto, Rui Ito, Mitsuyuki Ashida, Yuta Tsubouchi, Mai Nozawa, Go Urakawa, Jun Deguchi Toshiba Memory, Kawasaki, Japan High-bandwidth (BW) and large-capacity storage systems with NAND Flash memory (h
ISSCC 2019
Session 30
Wireline I/O
A 161mW 56Gb/s ADC-Based Discrete Multitone Wireline Receiver Data-Path in 14nm FinFET
Cosimo Aprile1,2, Thomas Morf2, Marcel Kossel2, Alessandro Cevrero2, Ilter Ozkaya1,2, Andreas Burg1, Thomas Toifl2, Yusuf Leblebici1 EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Rueschlikon, Switzerland 3 *
ISSCC 2019
Session 30
Wireline I/O
Single-Pair Automotive PHY Solutions from 10Mb/s to 10Gb/s and Beyond Gerrit W. den Besten
control busses to a high-performance data network for connecting sensors, processors, and actuators to enable autonomous driving [1]. A plurality of highbandwidth nodes like cameras, displays, radars, and wireless transc
ISSCC 2018
Session 6
Wireline I/O
A 32Gb/s 133mW PAM-4 Transceiver with DFE Based on Adaptive Clock Phase and Threshold Voltage in 65nm CMOS
With the proliferation of the Internet of Things and mobile computing, network speed is accelerating to support data-rich services. This drives the explosion of bandwidth requirement on backplane interconnects while chan
ISSCC 2018
Session 6
Wireline I/O
A 4.9pJ/b 16-to-64Gb/s PAM-4 VSR Transceiver in 28nm FDSOI CMOS
Hongyang Zhang2, Walter Audoglio1, Oscar Belotti1, Augusto Andrea Rossi1, Guido Albasini1, Massimo Pozzoni1, Simone Erba1, Andrea Mazzanti2 STMicroelectronics, Pavia, Italy University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy 1 2 PAM-4 mod
ISSCC 2018
Session 6
Wireline I/O
A 64Gb/s PAM-4 Transceiver Utilizing an Adaptive Threshold ADC in 16nm FinFET
for PAM-4 links above 50Gb/s [1,2], although fewer bits are sufficient and offer lower power for short reach (SR) channels. To further reduce the power consumption of ADC-based wireline transceivers, non-uniform quantiza
ISSCC 2018
Session 6
Wireline I/O
A Fully Adaptive 19-to-56Gb/s PAM-4 Wireline Transceiver with a Configurable ADC in 16nm FinFET
Arianne Roldan2, Wenfeng Zhang1, Jin Namkoong1, Toan Pham1, Bruce Xu1, Winson Lin1, Hongtao Zhang1, Nakul Narang2, Kee Hian Tan2, Geoff Zhang1, Yohan Frans1, Ken Chang1 Xilinx, San Jose, CA Xilinx, Singapore, Singapore 1
ISSCC 2018
Session 6
Wireline I/O
A 4-Lane 1.25-to-28.05Gb/s Multi-Standard 6pJ/b 40dB Transceiver in 14nm FinFET with Independent TX/RX Rate Support
Jennifer Pham, Kamran Farzan, Dominic Diclemente, Marcus van Ierssel, William Song, Saman Asgaran, Chris Holdenried, Saman Sadr Rambus, Toronto, Canada The scaling of CMOS technology together with continued innovations i
ISSCC 2018
Session 6
Wireline I/O
A 112Gb/s 2.6pJ/b 8-Tap FFE PAM-4 SST TX in 14nm CMOS
Thomas Morf1, Alessandro Cevrero1, Marcel Kossel1, Lukas Kull1, Danny Luu1,2, Ilter Ozkaya1,3, Thomas Toifl1 IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Rueschlikon, Switzerland 2 ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland 3 EPFL, Lausanne, Sw
ISSCC 2018
Session 6
Wireline I/O
A 112Gb/s PAM-4 Transmitter with 3-Tap FFE in 10nm CMOS
infrastructure has fueled the industry to develop ultra-high-speed/density wireline links compliant with electrical interface standards such as CEI-56G and 802.3bs400GbE. Recent publications have demonstrated CMOS transm
ISSCC 2018
Session 25
Wireline I/O
A -242dB FOM and -75dBc-Reference-Spur Ring-DCO-Based All-Digital PLL Using a Fast Phase-Error Correction Technique and a Low-Power Optimal-Threshold TDC
To improve efficiency in the use of silicon, there have been many efforts to develop ring-oscillator-based clock generators with low jitter. A PLL using a fast phaseerror correction (FPEC) technique [1] is one promising
ISSCC 2018
Session 25
Wireline I/O
A Fractional-N Digital PLL with Background-DitherNoise-Cancellation Loop Achieving <-62.5dBc WorstCase Near-Carrier Fractional Spurs in 65nm CMOS
Fractional-N digital phase-locked loops (DPLLs) are highly reconfigurable, scalable, and useful for synthesizing clocks with fine frequency resolution for modem RF, mixed-signal and digital VLSI systems. One critical des
ISSCC 2018
Session 25
Wireline I/O
A 5GHz 370fsrms 6.5mW Clock Multiplier Using a Crystal-Oscillator Frequency Quadrupler in 65nm CMOS
(RO-based) clock multipliers is typically limited by oscillator noise. The most power-efficient method for improving the phase noise of such clock multipliers is by increasing the oscillator noise suppression bandwidth (
ISSCC 2018
Session 25
Wireline I/O
A 4-to-16GHz Inverter-Based Injection-Locked Quadrature Clock Generator with Phase Interpolators for Multi-Standard I/Os in 7nm FinFET
suppress the supply noise, a voltage regulator is used to regulate the ILRO supply, Vreg_ILRO, which tracks Vctrl. Stanley Chen, Lei Zhou, Ian Zhuang, Jay Im, Didem Melek, Jinyung Namkoong, Mayank Raj, Jaewook Shin, Yoha
ISSCC 2018
Session 16
Wireline I/O
A 20Gb/s 79.5mW 127GHz CMOS Transceiver with Digitally Pre-Distorted PAM-4 Modulation for Contactless Communications
Taiwan 4 National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan 1 2 Contactless chip-to-chip or board-to-board proximity (~1mm) communications have been realized by using either wireless transmission [1-3], or inductive/capacit
ISSCC 2018
Session 16
Wireline I/O
A 1.17pJ/b 25Gb/s/pin Ground-Referenced SingleEnded Serial Link for Off- and On-Package Communication in 16nm CMOS Using a Process- and Temperature-Adaptive Voltage Regulator
Xi Chen2, Sudhir S. Kudva2, Sanquan Song2, Stephen G. Tell1, Nikola Nedovic2, Wenxu Zhao1a, Sunil R. Sudhakaran2, C. Thomas Gray1, William J. Dally2 Nvidia, Durham, NC; 2Nvidia, Santa Clara, CA 1 a now with Broadcom, Irv
ISSCC 2018
Session 16
Wireline I/O
A 126mW 56Gb/s NRZ Wireline Transceiver for Synchronous Short-Reach Applications in 16nm FinFET
Pedro Neto1, Mayank Raj2, Scott McLeod3, Hongtao Zhang2, Arianne Roldan2, Hongyuan Zhao4, Ping-Chuan Chiang4, Haibing Zhao4, KeeHian Tan4, Yohan Frans2, Ken Chang2 Xilinx, Cork, Ireland Xilinx, San Jose, CA 3 Acacia Comm
ISSCC 2018
Session 16
Wireline I/O
A 7.8Gb/s/pin 1.96pJ/b Compact Single-Ended TRX and CDR with Phase-Difference Modulation for Highly Reflective Memory Interfaces
strongly demanded by the memory industry. Although discontinuous reflective channels like multi-drop DRAM interfaces are less suitable for high data rates than continuous point-to-point channels, their great advantages i
ISSCC 2018
Session 16
Wireline I/O
A 20Gb/s Transceiver with Framed-Pulsewidth Modulation in 40nm CMOS
interference (ISI), which necessitates the enhancement of spectral efficiency. Recently, various modulation schemes including pulse amplitude modulation (PAM) [1], pulsewidth modulation (PWM) [2], permutation modulation
ISSCC 2018
Session 16
Wireline I/O
A 56Gb/s Burst-Mode NRZ Optical Receiver with 6.8ns Power-On and CDR-Lock Time for Adaptive Optical Links in 14nm FinFET CMOS
Christian Menolfi1, Matthias Braendli1, Thomas Morf1, Dan Kuchta3, Lukas Kull1, Marcel Kossel1, Danny Luu1, Mounir Meghelli3, Yusuf Leblebici2, Thomas Toifl1 IBM Research, Ruschlikon, Switzerland EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerl
ISSCC 2018
Session 16
Wireline I/O
A 28Gb/s Transceiver with Chirp-Managed EDC for DML Systems
medium-reach optical links owing to their simplicity and cost effectiveness. However, the chirp phenomenon under direct modulation limits the reach (2-10km) in a standard single-mode fiber (SMF). Although diverse optical
ISSCC 2017
Session 6
Wireline I/O
A 28Gb/s Digital CDR with Adaptive Loop Gain for Optimum Jitter Tolerance
(CDR) circuits becomes increasingly important in maintaining low bit error rates (BER) in wireline links. Digital CDRs are popular in part for their robustness, but their use of bang-bang phase detectors (BB-PD) makes th
ISSCC 2017
Session 6
Wireline I/O
A 22.5-to-32Gb/s 3.2pJ/b Referenceless Baud-Rate Digital CDR with DFE and CTLE in 28nm CMOS
circuits (CDRs) are becoming more prevalent in high-speed receiver designs as they offer lower power consumption by sampling the received data only once per UI [1,2]. This reduces the number of front-end comparators and
ISSCC 2017
Session 6
Wireline I/O
A 1.8pJ/b 56Gb/s PAM-4 Transmitter with Fractionally Spaced FFE in 14nm CMOS
As data rates in electrical links rise to 56Gb/s, standards are gravitating towards PAM-4 modulation to achieve higher spectral efficiency. Such approaches are not without drawbacks, as PAM-4 signaling results in reduced
ISSCC 2017
Session 6
Wireline I/O
A 64Gb/s PAM-4 Transmitter with 4-Tap FFE and 2.26pJ/b Energy Efficiency in 28nm CMOS FDSOI
Walter Audoglio1, Augusto Andrea Rossi1, Simone Erba1, Matteo Bassi2, Andrea Mazzanti2 STMicroelectronics, Pavia, Italy University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy 1 2 Electrical link migration requires serial interfaces to operat
ISSCC 2017
Session 6
Wireline I/O
A 40-to-56Gb/s PAM-4 Receiver with 10-Tap Direct Decision-Feedback Equalization in 16nm FinFET
Adam Chou1, Tim Cronin1, Kevin Geary3, Scott McLeod1, Lei Zhou1, Ian Zhuang1, Jaeduk Han4, Sen Lin4, Parag Upadhyaya1, Geoff Zhang1, Yohan Frans1, Ken Chang1 Xilinx, San Jose, CA Xilinx, Singapore, Singapore 3 Xilinx, Co
ISSCC 2017
Session 6
Wireline I/O
A 60Gb/s 288mW NRZ Transceiver with Adaptive Equalization and Baud-Rate Clock and Data Recovery in 65nm CMOS Technology
Qualcomm Atheros, San Jose, CA 1 2 The demand for ultra-high speed transceivers continues to explode, and while the data-rate for high-speed I/O standards has increased accordingly, the historically constant or even decr
ISSCC 2017
Session 6
Wireline I/O
A 56Gb/s PAM-4/NRZ Transceiver in 40nm CMOS
Ultra-high speed data links such as 400GbE continuously push transceivers to achieve better performance and lower power consumption. This paper presents a highly parallelized TRX at 56Gb/s with integrated serializer/dese
ISSCC 2017
Session 29
Wireline I/O
A 2.5GHz Injection-Locked ADPLL with 197fsrms Integrated Jitter and -65dBc Reference Spur Using Time-Division Dual Calibration
7.3 shows the implemented schematic of the TDDC. The ILO is based on a pseudo-differential 4-stage ring oscillator, whose frequency is controlled by the 10b FCW. The frequency resolution is 100kHz/LSB. The FEPMD controls
ISSCC 2017
Session 29
Wireline I/O
A 3-to-10Gb/s 5.75pJ/b Transceiver with Flexible Clocking in 65nm CMOS
This 2-step truncation and cancellation method provides higher order modulation while avoiding -1 to 1 and 1 to -1 jumps, which limits the needed DCDL range to 1 cycle of CKHF, independent of output frequency/data rate.
ISSCC 2017
Session 29
Wireline I/O
12Gb/s Over Four Balanced Lines Utilizing NRZ Braid Clock Signaling with 100% Data Payload and Spread Transition Scheme for 8K UHD Intra-Panel Interfaces
29.5.1 is generally adopted in an intra-panel interface due to the poor signal integrity of the multi-drop topology, data and clock channel skews and EMI emission from the forwarded clock signal channels. Clock recovery
ISSCC 2017
Session 29
Wireline I/O
A 16Gb/s 3.6pJ/b Wireline Transceiver with Phase Domain Equalization Scheme: Integrated Pulse Width Modulation (iPWM) in 65nm CMOS
Asymmetric links such as memory interfaces and display drivers require the transmitter to perform necessary equalization, while the receiver remains simple and has minimal or no equalization capability. Traditionally, FF
ISSCC 2017
Session 29
Wireline I/O
A 40Gb/s PAM-4 Transmitter Based on a RingResonator Optical DAC in 45nm SOI CMOS
Milos A. Popovic5, Vladimir Stojanovic1 University of California, Berkeley, CA Ayar Labs, San Francisco, CA 3 ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland 4 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 5 Boston University, Bo
ISSCC 2017
Session 29
Wireline I/O
A Transmitter and Receiver for 100Gb/s Coherent Networks with Integrated 4×64GS/s 8b ADCs and DACs in 20nm CMOS
Mehdi Khanpour, Kangmin Hu, Tamer Ali, Heng Zhang, Hairong Yu, Ben Rhew, Shiwei Sheng, Yonghyun Shim, Bo Zhang, Afshin Momtaz Broadcom, Irvine, CA At rates of 100Gb/s and above, CMOS DSP-based transceivers integrated wit
ISSCC 2017
Session 29
Wireline I/O
A 64Gb/s 1.4pJ/b NRZ Optical-Receiver Data-Path in 14nm CMOS FinFET
Christian Menolfi1, Thomas Morf1, Matthias Brandli1, Dan Kuchta2, Lukas Kull1, Jon Proesel2, Marcel Kossel1, Danny Luu1, Benjamin Lee2, Fuad Doany2, Mounir Meghelli2, Yusuf Leblebici3, Thomas Toifl1 IBM Research, Rueschl
ISSCC 2017
Session 17
Wireline I/O
A 105Gb/s 300GHz CMOS Transmitter
Ruibing Dong2, Akifumi Kasamatsu2, Iwao Hosako2, Koichi Mizuno3, Kazuaki Takahashi3, Takeshi Yoshida1, Minoru Fujishima1 Hiroshima University, Higashihiroshima, Japan National Institute of Information and Communications
ISSCC 2017
Session 17
Wireline I/O
A Compact 130GHz Fully Packaged Point-to-Point Wireless System with 3D-Printed 26dBi Lens Antenna Achieving 12.5Gb/s at 1.55pJ/b/m detection using mixers, which are power hungry. With the choice of an optimum current density for maximum gain (enhanced nonlinearity regime), and device size to fulfill the NF requirement based on input power, the ED consumes only 750μW, with NF<15dB at input sensitivity levels.
Afshin Babveyh1, Siavash Kananian1, Aimeric Bisognin3,4, Cyril Luxey3, Frederic Gianesello4, Jorge Costa5,6, Carlos Fernandes7, Amin Arbabian1 To address the stringent link requirements, and also to utilize spatial degre
ISSCC 2017
Session 17
Wireline I/O
A Packaged 90-to-300GHz Transmitter and 115-to325GHz Coherent Receiver in CMOS for Full-Band Continuous-Wave mm-Wave Hyperspectral Imaging
Millimeter-wave/THz hyperspectral imaging has numerous applications in security, non-destructive evaluation, material characterization, and medical diagnostics [1]. Unlike single-frequency imaging, hyperspectral imaging
ISSCC 2017
Session 17
Wireline I/O
Rapid and Energy-Efficient Molecular Sensing Using Dual mm-Wave Combs in 65nm CMOS: A 220-to-320GHz Spectrometer with 5.2mW Radiated Power and 14.6-to-19.5dB Noise Figure
Millimeter-wave/terahertz rotational spectroscopy offers ultra-wide-detection range of gas molecules for chemical and biomedical sensing. Therefore, wideband, energy-efficient, and fast-scanning CMOS spectrometers are in
ISSCC 2017
Session 17
Wireline I/O
An Intrinsically Linear Wideband Digital Polar PA Featuring AM-AM and AM-PM Corrections Through
Mohsen Hashemi1, Yiyu Shen1, Mohammadreza Mehrpoo1, Mustafa Acar2, René van Leuken1, Morteza S. Alavi1, Leonardus de Vreede1 Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands Ampleon, Nijmegen, The Netherlands 1 2 T
ISSCC 2017
Session 17
Wireline I/O
A Sub-mW Antenna-Impedance Detection Using Electrical Balance for Single-Step On-Chip Tunable Matching in Wearable/Implantable Applications
g., heart-rate-monitor straps and implanted wireless sensors, need to be ultra-low-power (ULP), compact, and also robust against the proximity effect, which can significantly degrade the antenna and frontend performance
ISSCC 2017
Session 17
Wireline I/O
A 60GHz On-Chip Linear Radiator with Single-Element 27.9dBm Psat and 33.1dBm Peak EIRP Using Multifeed Antenna for Direct On-Antenna Power Combining
links, e.g., for the 5G communication, is to provide large transmitter (Tx) output power (Pout) with high energy efficiency and linearity from a limited supply voltage, so that the high path loss and limited link budget
ISSCC 2017
Session 17
Wireline I/O
A 28GHz Magnetic-Free Non-Reciprocal Passive CMOS Circulator Based on Spatio-Temporal Conductance Modulation
A significant challenge for silicon-based mm-wave systems is a low-loss sharedantenna (ANT) interface with high linearity, isolation (ISO) and bandwidth (BW). Shared ANT interfaces with simultaneous transmit and receive
ISSCC 2017
Session 17
Wireline I/O
A 318-to-370GHz Standing-Wave 2D Phased Array in 0.13μm BiCMOS
Fully integrated implementation of mm-wave/THz radiators and phased arrays presents new potentials for applications like spectroscopy, imaging, and high data-rate communication. These applications demand sufficient radia
ISSCC 2017
Session 17
Wireline I/O
A Digitally Assisted CMOS WiFi 802.11ac/11ax FrontEnd Module Achieving 12% PA Efficiency at 20dBm Output Power with 160MHz 256-QAM OFDM Signal
James F. Wang1, Osama Shanaa1 MediaTek, San Jose, CA, 2MediaTek, Kent, United Kingdom 1 Front-end modules (FEM) typically employ expensive III-V or SiGe technologies to provide relatively higher PA output power and lower
ISSCC 2016
Session 3
Wireline I/O
A 40-to-64Gb/s NRZ Transmitter with SupplyRegulated Front-End in 16nm FinFET
Jin Namkoong, Winson Lin, Jay Im, Parag Upadhyaya, Ken Chang Xilinx, San Jose, CA Due to increasing bandwidth demand in data centers and telecommunication infrastructures, the maximum data-rate of wireline transceivers i
ISSCC 2016
Session 3
Wireline I/O
A 45Gb/s PAM-4 Transmitter Delivering 1.3Vppd Output Swing with 1V Supply in 28nm CMOS FDSOI
electrical link technology to support 400Gb/s standards is underway [1-5]. Physical constraints paired to the small area available to dissipate heat, impose limits to the maximum number of serial interfaces and therefore
ISSCC 2016
Session 3
Wireline I/O
A 56Gb/s NRZ-Electrical 247mW/lane Serial-Link Transceiver in 28nm CMOS
Yasufumi Sakai1, Hiroki Miyaoka2, Futoshi Terasawa2, Masahiro Kudo2, Hideki Kano2, Atsushi Matsuda2, Shigeaki Kawai2, Tomoyuki Arai2, Hirohito Higashi2, Naoaki Naka2, Hisakatsu Yamaguchi1, Toshihiko Mori1, Yoichi Koyanag
ISSCC 2016
Session 3
Wireline I/O
A 40/50/100Gb/s PAM-4 Ethernet Transceiver in 28nm CMOS
Arun Tiruvur1, Belal Helal1, Chang-Feng Loi2, Chris Jiang1, Halil Cirit1, Irene Quek2, Jamal Riani1, James Gorecki1, Jennifer Wu1, Jorge Pernillo1, Lawrence Tse1, Michael Le3, Mohammad Ranjbar1, Pui-Shan Wong1, Pulkit Kh