Design of a high speed and power efficient quarter-rate clock and data recovery circuit

Due to the advantage in technology and multi-media, the demand for data communication has increased tremendously. More standards for high speed low power communication have been established, i.e. Serial Advanced-Technology Attachment (SATA), Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe), Universa...

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Main Author: Tan, Yung Sern
Other Authors: Yeo Kiat Seng
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Published: 2012
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-506672023-07-04T16:15:13Z Design of a high speed and power efficient quarter-rate clock and data recovery circuit Tan, Yung Sern Yeo Kiat Seng School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering DRNTU::Engineering::Electrical and electronic engineering::Integrated circuits Due to the advantage in technology and multi-media, the demand for data communication has increased tremendously. More standards for high speed low power communication have been established, i.e. Serial Advanced-Technology Attachment (SATA), Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe), Universal Serial Bus (USB) and etc. In the receiver design, the clock and data recovery (CDR) circuit is an important block as the clock signal is embedded in the receiving data. This thesis presents several new circuit designs to improve the performance of the CDR circuit. First, a new quarter-rate linear phase detector (PD) is proposed to reduce the circuit complexity of the reported quarter-rate linear PD design. Besides that, the proposed PD applies UP pulse-widening technique to resolve the issue of small UP pulses. The existing PDs with UP pulse-widening techniques have more output signals, which increases the difficulties in designing the Charge Pump (CP). In the proposed PD, the number of output signals has been successfully minimized. This thesis also provides propagation delay analysis of the proposed PD. A set of equations is derived from the analysis to predict the characteristic curve of the proposed PD. At the linear region, the accuracy of the prediction results is 98% of the simulation results. The effect on propagation delay at various phase differences is also being discussed. DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (EEE) 2012-08-27T07:25:31Z 2012-08-27T07:25:31Z 2012 2012 Thesis Tan, Y. S. (2012). Design of a high speed and power efficient quarter-rate clock and data recovery circuit. Doctoral thesis, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. https://hdl.handle.net/10356/50667 10.32657/10356/50667 en 198 p. application/pdf
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Tan, Yung Sern
Design of a high speed and power efficient quarter-rate clock and data recovery circuit
description Due to the advantage in technology and multi-media, the demand for data communication has increased tremendously. More standards for high speed low power communication have been established, i.e. Serial Advanced-Technology Attachment (SATA), Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe), Universal Serial Bus (USB) and etc. In the receiver design, the clock and data recovery (CDR) circuit is an important block as the clock signal is embedded in the receiving data. This thesis presents several new circuit designs to improve the performance of the CDR circuit. First, a new quarter-rate linear phase detector (PD) is proposed to reduce the circuit complexity of the reported quarter-rate linear PD design. Besides that, the proposed PD applies UP pulse-widening technique to resolve the issue of small UP pulses. The existing PDs with UP pulse-widening techniques have more output signals, which increases the difficulties in designing the Charge Pump (CP). In the proposed PD, the number of output signals has been successfully minimized. This thesis also provides propagation delay analysis of the proposed PD. A set of equations is derived from the analysis to predict the characteristic curve of the proposed PD. At the linear region, the accuracy of the prediction results is 98% of the simulation results. The effect on propagation delay at various phase differences is also being discussed.
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author Tan, Yung Sern
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title Design of a high speed and power efficient quarter-rate clock and data recovery circuit
title_short Design of a high speed and power efficient quarter-rate clock and data recovery circuit
title_full Design of a high speed and power efficient quarter-rate clock and data recovery circuit
title_fullStr Design of a high speed and power efficient quarter-rate clock and data recovery circuit
title_full_unstemmed Design of a high speed and power efficient quarter-rate clock and data recovery circuit
title_sort design of a high speed and power efficient quarter-rate clock and data recovery circuit
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