Abstract:
This paper presents a 4-tap coefficient-error-robust feed-forward equalization (FFE) transmitter (TX) for massively parallel links. Recently, massively parallel links suc...Show MoreMetadata
Abstract:
This paper presents a 4-tap coefficient-error-robust feed-forward equalization (FFE) transmitter (TX) for massively parallel links. Recently, massively parallel links such as on-chip links [1-3], silicon interposers [4,5], or wide I/Os [6] are gaining popularity to meet increasing demand for data transmission with a limited power budget. However, calibration overhead for thousands I/Os to compensate coefficient errors due to nano-scale variation has a high hardware cost. To reduce this overhead, we develop a coefficient-error-robust FFE (B-FFE) TX architecture that uses the channel loss to suppress eye perturbation due to coefficient errors while behaving identically to a conventional FFE.
Published in: 2014 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference Digest of Technical Papers (ISSCC)
Date of Conference: 09-13 February 2014
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 06 March 2014
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