Title
A Single-Pair Serial Link for Mobile Displays With Clock Edge Modulation Scheme
Abstract
A low-power, single-channel clock-edge modulated serial link has been fabricated in a standard 0.18-mum CMOS technology. The link core size is 343 times 188 mum2 for the transmitter and 173 times 83 mum2 for the receiver. The link consumes 3.12 mW when operating at 270 Mb/s with a 1.2-V supply. The proposed link transfers all necessary signals between a graphic processor and a mobile display device over a single pair channel, thereby greatly saving the power and cost of the existing full swing parallel lines. The proposed clock edge modulation (CEM) encoding can keep the channel DC-balanced without an additional bit overhead. Since a clock edge is present for each bit, an external reference clock is not needed and its operating frequency can be varied without the possibility of harmonic locking typically found in a referenceless clock and data recovery circuit. A simple DLL-based CEM decoder is described that recovers the data with low power consumption and high jitter tolerance. An analysis of the jitter tolerance to sinusoidal jitter is included along with measured data. The measurement results show jitter tolerance of 20 UIP-P with 1-MHz sinusoidal jitter. The use of a push-pull voltage-mode driver further reduces the power consumption.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1109/JSSC.2007.903038
Solid-State Circuits, IEEE Journal of
Keywords
Field
DocType
bit rate 270 mbit/s,cmos integrated circuits,power 3.12 mw,mobile displays,power consumption,microprocessor chips,clock-edge modulation,phase-locked loop (pll),voltage 1.2 v,display devices,modulation,jitter,low-power electronics,jitter tolerance (jtol),delay-locked loop (dll),clock-edge modulated serial link,jitter tolerance,cmos technology,single pair channel,timing jitter,dc-balancing,sinusoidal jitter,serial link,mobile,delay lock loops,graphic processor,size 0.18 micron,display,phase lock loop,low power electronics,delay lock loop
Phase-locked loop,Clock recovery,Computer science,Clock domain crossing,Communication channel,Electronic engineering,Clock skew,Jitter,Signal edge,Low-power electronics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
42
9
0018-9200
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
7
0.84
5
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Won-Jun Choe171.18
B.-J. Lee210419.31
Jaeha Kim338251.63
Deog-Kyoon Jeong4626119.05
Gyudong Kim5577.40