1. A 32 Gb/s, 4.7 pJ/bit Optical Link With −11.7 dBm Sensitivity in 14-nm FinFET CMOS.
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Proesel, Jonathan E., Toprak-Deniz, Zeynep, Cevrero, Alessandro, Ozkaya, Ilter, Kim, Seongwon, Kuchta, Daniel M., Lee, Sungjae, Rylov, Sergey V., Ainspan, Herschel, Dickson, Timothy O., Bulzacchelli, John F., and Meghelli, Mounir
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CMOS integrated circuits ,OPTICAL links (Optical communications) ,FIELD-effect transistors - Abstract
This paper presents a 32 Gb/s non-return-to-zero optical link using 850-nm vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser-based multi-mode optics with 14-nm bulk FinFET CMOS circuits. The target application is the integration of optics on to the first-level package, connecting high-speed optical I/O directly to an advanced CMOS host chip (e.g., processor and switch) to increase package I/O bandwidth density and lower overall system power and cost. The optical link is designed for maximum link margin to tolerate high optical losses created by low-cost optical packaging. The transmitter (TX) uses a three-tap, 1/2-unit-interval-spaced feed-forward equalizer to improve eye opening. The receiver (RX) uses a low-bandwidth, low-noise transimpedance amplifier and a speculative one-tap decision-feedback equalizer for high sensitivity. The TX and RX power efficiencies are 3.3 and 1.4 pJ/bit, respectively. The TX optical modulation amplitude (OMA) is 1.2 dBm, and the RX sensitivity is −11.7 dBm OMA at a bit error rate of 10−12 with PRBS31 data, providing 12.9-dB link margin. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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