Title
Design And Characterization Of Low Power And Low Noise Truly All-Digital Clock And Data Recovery Circuit For Serdes Devices
Abstract
This paper presents a true all-digital referenceless mixed FLL/DLL quarter-rate clock and data recovery (CDR) circuit for SERDES devices. Key circuit blocks include a quarter-rate frequency detector, a quarter-rate phase detector, an eight-phase signal generator, and a low-jitter digitally-controlled oscillator (DCO). The circuit is referenceless operating at an internally generated signal with a frequency equal to one-fourth of the incoming data rate. It can achieve phase and frequency detection at a PRBS data stream as well as inherent 1-to-4 demultiplexing. Though, there exists few numbers of dual-loop fractional rate CDR circuits, however the proposed circuit is entirely digital, synthesizable from a Verilog hardware description language and hence requires no filter, analog or off-FPGA components. Furthermore, a Verilog-based description of the circuit makes it easy to implement on various FPGA platform as well as an integrated circuit with inconsiderable modification. The design has been synthesized and implemented on the Altera DE2-70 development board. The CDR achieves BER lower than 10-12 (using bathtub plot), consumes 590 mu W power while operating at 167.5 Mb/s, the tracking range of the CDR corresponds to 167.32 Mb/s to 193.6 Mb/s data range. The measured RMS and peak-to-peak jitters of the recovered clock are 47.3 ps and 297 ps, respectively, at 167.5 Mb/s and 2(23)-1 PRBS input stream.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1166/jolpe.2013.1241
JOURNAL OF LOW POWER ELECTRONICS
Keywords
Field
DocType
System-on-Chip (SoC), Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), Clock and Data Recovery (CDR), Early-Late Phase Detector, Quarter-Rate Phase Detector, QuarterRate Frequency Detector, Digitally-Controlled Oscillator (DCO)
Data recovery circuit,Low noise,Electronic engineering,Real-time computing,Digital clock,Engineering,SerDes
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
9
1
1546-1998
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.37
0
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Maher Assaad142.49
Mohammed H. Alser2525.34
Amine Bermak349390.25