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10Gb/s transceiver for backplane transmission

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References

General information on 10GBase-KR

  1. John D'Ambrosia, Driving 10-Gbit Serial ATCA Backplanes , CommsDesign.
  2. John D'Ambrosia, Follow the road to signaling selection, CommsDesign.
  3. John D'Ambrosia, Getting a handle on fast backplanes, CommsDesign.
  4. John D'Ambrosia, Passive Channel Holds Key to 10-Gbit Backplanes, CommsDesign.

Transceivers

  1. Bulzacchelli, J. F. et al., “A 10-Gb/s 5-Tap DFE/4-Tap FFE Transceiver in 90-nm CMOS Technology”, IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits, pp 2885-2900, vol. 41, no. 12, Dec. 2006.(conference paper, slides)
  2. Kenney J. G. et al., “A 9.95–11.3-Gb/s XFP Transceiver in 0.13-μm CMOS”, IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits, pp 2901-2910, vol. 41, no. 12, Dec. 2006.
  3. Analui, B. et al., “A Fully Integrated 20-Gb/s Optoelectronic Transceiver Implemented in a Standard 0.13-μm CMOS SOI Technology”, IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits, pp 2945-2955, vol. 41, no. 12, Dec. 2006.
  4. N. Krishnapura et al. “A 5Gb/s NRZ Transceiver with Adaptive Equalization for Backplane Transmission”, IEEE International Solid State Circuits Conference, pp. 60-61,585, Feb. 6-9 2005, San Fransisco, USA.(paper, slides)

Equalizers

  1. Azita Emami, et al., “Switched Capacitor Equalizer 90nm CMOS, JSSC,April 2007
  2. Bulzacchelli, J. F. et al., ”A 10-Gb/s 5-Tap DFE/4-Tap FFE Transceiver in 90-nm CMOS Technology“, IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits, pp 2885-2900, vol. 41, no. 12, Dec. 2006.(conference paper, slides)
  3. N. Krishnapura et al. “A 5Gb/s NRZ Transceiver with Adaptive Equalization for Backplane Transmission”, IEEE International Solid State Circuits Conference, pp. 60-61,585, Feb. 6-9 2005, San Fransisco, USA.(paper, slides)
  4. T. Beukema et al., "A 6.4-Gb/s CMOS SerDes Core With Feed-Forward and Decision-Feedback Equalization", IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits, pp 2633-2645, vol. 40, no. 12, Dec. 2005.
  5. R. Payne et al., "A 6.25-Gb/s Binary Transceiver in 0.13-μm CMOS for Serial Data Transmission Across High Loss Legacy Backplane Channels", IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits, pp 2646-2657, vol. 40, no. 12, Dec. 2005.
  6. J. Sewter and A. C. Carusone, "A 3-Tap FIR Filter With Cascaded Distributed Tap Amplifiers for Equalization Up to 40 Gb/s in 0.18-μm CMOS", IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits, pp 1919-1929, vol. 41, no. 8, Aug. 2006.

Front End Amplifiers

  1. S. Galal and B. Razavi, "10-Gb/s Limiting Amplifier and Laser/Modulator Driver in 0.18-μm CMOS Technology", IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits, pp 2138-2146, vol. 38, no. 12, Dec. 2003.
  2. Huang et al., "A 10-Gb/s Inductorless CMOS Limiting Amplifier With Third-Order Interleaving Active Feedback", IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits, pp 1111-1120, vol. 42, no. 5, May 2007.

Clock/data recovery circuits

  1. Nose K. et al., ”A 1-ps Resolution Jitter-Measurement Macro Using Interpolated Jitter Oversampling“, IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits, pp 2911-2920, vol. 41, no. 12, Dec. 2006.
  2. Kromer C. et al., ”A 25-Gb/s CDR in 90-nm CMOS for High-Density Interconnects“, IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits, pp 2921-2929, vol. 41, no. 12, Dec. 2006.
  3. Perrott, M. H. et al., ”2.5-Gb/s Multi-Rate 0.25-μm CMOS Clock and Data Recovery Circuit Utilizing a Hybrid Analog/Digital Loop Filter and All-Digital Referenceless Frequency Acquisition“, IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits, pp 2930-2944, vol. 41, no. 12, Dec. 2006.

Mux/Demux Circuits

Single ended and differential s-parameters

Process technology: TSMC 65nm CMOS

Documentation

/cad/library/tsmc65nm.old/PDK_doc/*.pdf PDK usage guide
/cad/library/tsmc65nm/models/mixedSignal/current/CMN65GP V1d1_mismatch_models_released note.pdf Mismatch model info
/cad/library/tsmc65nm/models/mixedSignal/current/CMN65GP_V1d1_stat_model_ release_ note.pdf Statistical modeling info
/cad/library/tsmc65nm/models/mixedSignal/043007/TN65CMSP005_1_1.pdf Device model info(Apr. 07)
/cad/library/tsmc65nm/ansoft/TN65CMSP008_1_0/Using Ansoft HFSS for TSMC UTM Inductors and ALRDL Inductors and Regular Metal Lines_65nm.pdf Information for using Ansoft HFSS for inductor modeling. Also has interconnect thickness and dielectric info
/cad/library/tsmc65nm/models/mixedSignal/043007/doc_graphs/fitqual/MOSFET/lod_wpe/65Gplus_v1d0_LOD_WPE.ppt
/cad/library/tsmc65nm/models/gplus/current/CLN65GPlus_V1d2_release_note.ppt Model vs. meas. correlation
/cad/library/tsmc65nm_RF/PDK_doc/TSMC_DOC_WM/N65_PDK_rf_flow_guide_v0d1.pdf RF design flow guide

Summary

  1. MOS: Vtn = 0.2V-0.25V, Vtp=0.25V-0.3V
  2. Resistor: Non-silicided n+poly 130Ω/sq, Non-silicided p+poly 800Ω/sq, silicided n+poly 15Ω/sq, silicided p+poly 15Ω/sq
  3. AVTn=2.5mV·μm, AVTp=2.5mV·μm, AIDn=0.6%·μm, AIDp=0.6%·μm(There is some discrepancy between the tables and the figures. I have taken the worst case.)
  4. Arppolywo=1%·μm, Arnpolywo=4.7%·μm, Arppoly=1.6%·μm, Arnpoly=1.1%·μm
  5. Plots of key parameters(fT, gm, etc.) with temp. and process: mosplots.pdf

Results

Front End Amplifiers and VGA

This file contains a decent documenatation on the important results of front end amplifier circuit.

Res Loaded Diff pair

Common mode : 700 mV.

Corner (mos,res) Temperature DC-gain 3-dB Bandwidth (GHz)
ss 0 31.6 8.26
sf 0 25.7 12.4
fs0 31 8.9
ff025.213.5
tt028.8 10.2
ss 100 30 8.1
sf 100 23.5 12
fs100 30 8.9
ff10024 13.1
tt10027.210.2
Important Plots

Deserializer