Title | ||
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3.7 A 7Gb/s rapid on/off embedded-clock serial-link transceiver with 20ns power-on time, 740μW off-state power for energy-proportional links in 65nm CMOS |
Abstract | ||
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Energy-proportional operation of serial links is imperative for realizing energy-efficient data centers and low-power mobile interfaces such as MIPI. Burst-mode communication, where the link is powered-off when idle and powered-on when needed, achieves energy proportional operation. Ideally, a burst mode link must be turned on/off in zero time, must consume zero power in the off-state and must incur zero energy overhead while making on/off transitions. However, these requirements are difficult to meet in practice and as a consequence, the efficacy of burst mode communication in achieving energy proportional operation is reduced. The main challenges in achieving small power-on time and off-state power include the design of fast-locking PLLs, CDRs and achieving fast settling of bias node voltages. In this paper, we present a complete 7Gb/s energy-proportional embedded-clock transceiver that achieves less than 20ns power-on time while consuming 63.7mW on-state power, 0.74mW off-state power and 1.2nJ of total transition energy penalty per burst. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2015 | 10.1109/ISSCC.2015.7062927 | ISSCC |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
generators,phase locked loops,energy efficiency,transceivers,transmitters | Serial communication,Phase-locked loop,Transceiver,Burst mode (photography),Computer science,Efficient energy use,Idle,Voltage,CMOS,Electronic engineering,Electrical engineering | Conference |
Citations | PageRank | References |
5 | 0.71 | 1 |
Authors | ||
6 |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
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Tejasvi Anand | 1 | 110 | 16.98 |
Mrunmay Talegaonkar | 2 | 123 | 15.61 |
Ahmed Elkholy | 3 | 77 | 16.19 |
Saurabh Saxena | 4 | 174 | 16.84 |
Amr Elshazly | 5 | 242 | 28.08 |
Pavan Kumar Hanumolu | 6 | 554 | 84.82 |