Title
A 0.14-to-0.29-pJ/bit 14-GBaud/s Trimodal (NRZ/PAM-4/PAM-8) Half-Rate Bang-Bang Clock and Data Recovery (BBCDR) Circuit in 28-nm CMOS
Abstract
This paper reports a half-rate bang-bang clock and data recovery (BBCDR) circuit supporting the trimodal (NRZ/PAM-4/PAM-8) operation. The observation of their crossover- points distribution at the transitions introduces the single-loop phase tracking technique. In addition, low-power techniques at both the architecture and circuit levels are employed to greatly improve the overall energy efficiency and multiply data throughput by increasing the number of levels on the magnitude. Fabricated in 28-nm CMOS, our BBCDR prototype scores a 0.29/0.17/0.14 pJ/bit efficiency at 14.4/28.8/43.2 Gb/s under NRZ/PAM-4/PAM-8 modes, respectively. The jitter is <; 0.53 ps (integrated from 100 Hz to 1 GHz) with approximately-equivalent constant loop bandwidth, and we achieve at least 1-UIpp jitter tolerance up to 10 MHz for all the three modes.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1109/TCSI.2020.3038865
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers
Keywords
DocType
Volume
CMOS,four- and eight-level pulse amplitude modulation (PAM-4/-8),bang-bang phase detector (BBPD),half rate,Hogge and Alexander PD,StrongARM comparator,bang- bang clock and data recovery (BBCDR),non-return-to-zero (NRZ),jitter transfer function (JTF),jitter tolerance (JTOL)
Journal
68
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
1549-8328
4
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.41
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xiaoteng Zhao1121.61
Yong Chen2368.00
Peng Un Mak330165.06
Rui Paulo Martins4437.21