A 4.8pJ/b 56Gb/s ADC-Based PAM-4 Wireline Receiver Data-Path with Cyclic Prefix in 14nm FinFET

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

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Abstract

This work presents an ADC-based receiver (RX) data-path for frame-based PAM-4 modulation with a cyclic prefix (CP). Similar to discrete multi-tone (DMT) modulation, a frame of PAM-4 symbols are protected from the channel delay spread by the CP taps. A PAM-4 frame window including CP taps is viewed as a DMT symbol and is equalized similarly to a DMT signal equalization, based on a discrete-time Fourier transform (DFT) and frequency-domain equalizer (FDE). The RX prototype implemented in 14nm FinFET achieves 56Gb/s data-rate at less than 3e-5 pre-FEC BER over a 19dB loss channel at 14GHz dissipating 270mW including the ADC and the DSP data-path excluding the inverse DFT and the BER checker.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2019 IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference, A-SSCC 2019
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages239-240
Number of pages2
ISBN (Electronic)9781728151069
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 2019
Event15th IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference, A-SSCC 2019 - Macao, China
Duration: 4 Nov 20196 Nov 2019

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2019 IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference, A-SSCC 2019

Conference

Conference15th IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference, A-SSCC 2019
Country/TerritoryChina
CityMacao
Period4/11/196/11/19

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