A 161-mW 56-Gb/s ADC-Based Discrete Multitone Wireline Receiver Data-Path in 14-nm FinFET

Gain Kim, Marcel Kossel, Alessandro Cevrero, Ilter Ozkaya, Andreas Burg, Thomas Toifl, Yusuf Leblebici, Lukas Kull, Danny Luu, Matthias Braendli, Christian Menolfi, Pier Andrea Francese, Hazar Yueksel, Cosimo Aprile, Thomas Morf

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Abstract

This article introduces a wireline receiver (RX) data-path employing discrete multi-tone (DMT) modulation for communicating over electrical links. The DMT RX incorporates a fully digital equalization data-path, with a synthesized and automatically placed and routed digital signal processor (DSP) following a 10-bit time-interleaved pipelined successive-approximation register analog-to-digital converter (TI-PISAR ADC). The prototype RX chip implemented in a 14-nm FinFET process demonstrates a lane data rate of 56 Gb/s dissipating 161 mW including the ADC and the DSP power. The energy efficiency of 1.2 pJ/b for the DSP and 2.9 pJ/b for the entire RX was achieved with the data-rate of 56 Gb/s for communicating over channels exhibiting up to 28-dB loss at 14 GHz with a bit-error-rate (BER) better than 2e-4.

Original languageEnglish
Article number8846586
Pages (from-to)38-48
Number of pages11
JournalIEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits
Volume55
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 2020

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Keywords

  • Discrete multi-tone (DMT)
  • SerDes
  • inter-symbol interference (ISI)
  • orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM)
  • receiver
  • serial-data transceiver
  • wireline

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