A 64Gb/s 1.4pJ/b NRZ Optical-Receiver Data-Path in 14nm CMOS FinFET
Cevrero, A; Ozkaya, I; Francese, P.A.; Menolfi, C; Morf, T; Braendli, M; Kuchta, D; Kull, L; Proesel, J; Kossel, M; Luu, D; Lee, B; Doany, F; Meghelli, M; Leblebici, Y; Toifl, T
2017

Abstract

This work describes a NRZ receiver data-path fabricated in 14nm bulk FinFET technology and characterized in an 850nm VCSEL based optical link up to 64Gb/s. It achieves 1.42pJ/bit energy efficiency while recovering PRBS-7 data (BER< 10-12) modulated by a VCSEL driver with 1-tap FFE. The receiver utilizes a self-referenced low-bandwidth TIA combined with a speculative 1-tap DFE to achieve high sensitivity. The measured sensitivity at 64 Gb/s, 56 Gb/s and 32 Gb/s are -5.5dBm, -9dBm and -13dBm OMA respectively.

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Title A 64Gb/s 1.4pJ/b NRZ Optical-Receiver Data-Path in 14nm CMOS FinFET
Author(s) Cevrero, A ; Ozkaya, I ; Francese, P.A. ; Menolfi, C ; Morf, T ; Braendli, M ; Kuchta, D ; Kull, L ; Proesel, J ; Kossel, M ; Luu, D ; Lee, B ; Doany, F ; Meghelli, M ; Leblebici, Y ; Toifl, T
Published in Proceedings of the 2017 International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC)
Pagination 1
Series IEEE International Solid State Circuits Conference
Pages 482-483
Conference 2017 International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), San Francisco, CA, February 5-10, 2017
Date 2017
Publisher New York, Ieee
ISBN 978-1-5090-3758-2
DOI https://doi.org/10.1109/ISSCC.2017.7870471
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Laboratories LSM
Record Appears in Scientific production and competences > STI - School of Engineering > IEM - Institut d'Electricité et de Microtechnique > LSM - Microelectronic Systems Laboratory
Peer-reviewed publications
Conference Papers
Work produced at EPFL
Published
Record creation date 2017-01-13

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