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A robust high speed serial PHY architecture with feed-forward correction clock and data recovery

A robust high speed serial PHY architecture with feed-forward correction clock and data recovery
A robust high speed serial PHY architecture with feed-forward correction clock and data recovery
This paper describes a robust architecture for high speed serial links for embedded SoC applications, implemented to satisfy the 1.5 Gb/s and 3 Gb/s Serial-ATA PHY standards. To meet the primary design requirements of a sub-system that is very tolerant of device variability and is easy to port to smaller nanometre CMOS technologies, a minimum of precision analog functions are used. All digital functions are implemented in rail-to-rail CMOS with maximum use of synthesized library cells. A single fixed frequency low-jitter PLL serves the transmit and receive paths in both modes so that tracking and lock time issues are eliminated. A new oversampling CDR with a simple feed-forward error correction scheme is proposed which relaxes the requirements for the analog front-end as well as for the received signal quality. Measurements show that the error corrector can almost double the tolerance to incoming jitter and to DC offsets in the analog front-end. The design occupies less than 0.4 mm2 in 90 nm CMOS and consumes 75 mW
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Balmford, Richard
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Redman-White, William, Bugbee, Martin, Dobbs, Steve, Wu, XinYan, Balmford, Richard, Nuttgens, Jonah, Kiami, Umer, Clegg, Richard and den Besten, Gerrit (2009) A robust high speed serial PHY architecture with feed-forward correction clock and data recovery. IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits, 44 (7), 1914-1926. (doi:10.1109/JSSC.2009.2020230).

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This paper describes a robust architecture for high speed serial links for embedded SoC applications, implemented to satisfy the 1.5 Gb/s and 3 Gb/s Serial-ATA PHY standards. To meet the primary design requirements of a sub-system that is very tolerant of device variability and is easy to port to smaller nanometre CMOS technologies, a minimum of precision analog functions are used. All digital functions are implemented in rail-to-rail CMOS with maximum use of synthesized library cells. A single fixed frequency low-jitter PLL serves the transmit and receive paths in both modes so that tracking and lock time issues are eliminated. A new oversampling CDR with a simple feed-forward error correction scheme is proposed which relaxes the requirements for the analog front-end as well as for the received signal quality. Measurements show that the error corrector can almost double the tolerance to incoming jitter and to DC offsets in the analog front-end. The design occupies less than 0.4 mm2 in 90 nm CMOS and consumes 75 mW

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Published date: July 2009
Organisations: Nanoelectronics and Nanotechnology

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Local EPrints ID: 259242
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/259242
ISSN: 0018-9200
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Date deposited: 15 Jul 2011 13:20
Last modified: 14 Mar 2024 06:21

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Author: William Redman-White
Author: Martin Bugbee
Author: Steve Dobbs
Author: XinYan Wu
Author: Richard Balmford
Author: Jonah Nuttgens
Author: Umer Kiami
Author: Richard Clegg
Author: Gerrit den Besten

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