A 112-Gb/s PAM-4 long-reach wireline transceiver using a 36-way time-interleaved SAR ADC and inverter-based RX analog front-end in 7-nm FinFET

J Im, K Zheng, CHA Chou, L Zhou… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A 36-way time-interleaved 56-GS/s 7-bit ADC is designed to realize 112-Gb/s pulse-
amplitude modulation (PAM-4) transceiver in a 7-nm FinFET CMOS. The receiver analog …

6.2 A 460mW 112Gb/s DSP-based transceiver with 38dB loss compensation for next-generation data centers in 7nm FinFET technology

T Ali, E Chen, H Park, R Yousry… - … Solid-State Circuits …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Explosive growth in mega-scale data centers drives switch chips to transition from 12.8 Tb/s
to 51.2 Tb/s throughput. A 51.2 Tb/s switch requires 512 lanes operating at 106Gb/s PAM-4 …

A 224-Gb/s DAC-based PAM-4 quarter-rate transmitter with 8-tap FFE in 10-nm FinFET

J Kim, S Kundu, A Balankutty, M Beach… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents analysis, design details, and measurement result of a 224-Gb/s four-
level pulse amplitude modulation (PAM-4) transmitter (TX) consisting of a 7-bit voltage …

A 128-Gb/s 1.3-pJ/b PAM-4 transmitter with reconfigurable 3-tap FFE in 14-nm CMOS

Z Toprak-Deniz, JE Proesel… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article describes a 128-Gb/s pulse amplitude-modulation 4-level (PAM-4) transmitter
(TX) implemented in a 14-nm CMOS FinFET technology. Equalization is provided by a fully …

8.3 An 8b DAC-based SST TX using metal gate resistors with 1.4 pJ/b efficiency at 112Gb/s PAM-4 and 8-Tap FFE in 7nm CMOS

MA Kossel, V Khatri, M Braendli… - … Solid-State Circuits …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Digital-to-analog converter (DAC)-based transmitters are suited to support different
modulation formats (eg, NRZ, PAM-4, OFDM), long-channel equalization (incl. roaming taps) …

6.3 A 10-to-112Gb/s DSP-DAC-Based Transmitter with 1.2Vppd Output Swing in 7nm FinFET

E Groen, C Boecker, M Hossain, R Vu… - … Solid-State Circuits …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Internet of things (IoT) devices such as self-driven cars and home appliances are creating
massive amounts of data traffic. Obviously, such demand trickles down to every electrical …

A 1.24-pJ/b 112-Gb/s (870 Gb/s/mm) transceiver for in-package links in 7-nm FinFET

CF Poon, W Zhang, J Cho, S Ma… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article describes the design of a 1.24-pJ/b 112-Gb/s PAM4 transceiver test chip in 7-nm
FinFET for in-package die-to-die communication. The receiver supports 0–1.2-V input …

A 50–112-Gb/s PAM-4 transmitter with a fractional-spaced FFE in 65-nm CMOS

X Zheng, H Ding, F Zhao, D Wu, L Zhou… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents a 50–112-Gb/s current-mode four-level pulse amplitude modulation
(PAM-4) transmitter with a two-tap fractional-spaced feed-forward equalizer (FFE). The …

A 56-Gb/s PAM-4 transmitter/receiver chipset with nonlinear FFE for VCSEL-based optical links in 40-nm CMOS

PJ Peng, PL Lee, HE Huang, WJ Huang… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents a 56-Gb/s four-level pulse amplitude modulation (PAM-4)
transmitter/receiver (TX/RX) chipset for optical link. The optical transmitter (TX) adopts a …

A 112-Gb/s PAM-4 voltage-mode transmitter with four-tap two-step FFE and automatic phase alignment techniques in 40-nm CMOS

PJ Peng, YT Chen, ST Lai… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents a 112-Gb/s four-level pulse amplitude modulation (PAM-4) voltage-
mode transmitter (TX) with a four-tap feed-forward equalizer (FFE). A two-step coarse-/fine …