A Bang-Bang Clock and Data Recovery Using Mixed Mode Adaptive Loop Gain Strategy Hyung-Joon Jeon, Student Member , IEEE

Abstract

A Bang-Bang Clock and Data Recovery (CDR) with adaptive loop gain strategy is presented. The proposed strategy en- hances CDR jitter performance even if jitter spectrum information is limited a priori. By exploiting t he inherent hard-nonlinearity of Bang-Bang Phase Detector (BBPD), the CDR loop gain is adap- tively adjusted based on a posterio ri jitter spectrum estimation. Maximizing advantages of analog and digital implementations, the proposed mixed-mode techniq ue achieves PVT insensitive and power ef ficient loop gain adaptation for high speed applications even in limited technologies. A modified CML D-latch improves CDR input sensitivity and BBPD performance. A folded-cascode- based Charge Pump (CP) is proposed to minimize CP latency. The 5 G/10 G CDR prototype is fabricated in 0.18 µm CMOS tech- nology to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed techniques for applications with high ratio of data-rate to . The proposed CDR recovers data with BER and generates only 1.04 ps RMS and 7.5 ps peak-peak jitter. Jitter Tolerance (JTOL) test shows that the proposed CDR enhances low frequency jitter tracking and high frequency jitter filtering simultaneously for various jitter pro files. The CDR power consumption is 110.6 mW where only 3.9 mW is used for loop gain adaptation circuitry.