A 32 Gb/s Low Power Little Area Re-timer with PI Based CDR in 65 nm CMOS Technology

This paper presents a 32 Gb/s low power little area re-timer with Phase Interpolator (PI) based Clock and Data Recovery (CDR). To further ensure signal integrity, both a Continuous Time Linear Equalizer (CTLE) and Feed Forward Equalizer (FFE) are adapted. To save power dissipation, a quarter-rate based 3-tap FFE is proposed. To reduce the chip area, a Band-Band Phase Discriminator (BBPD) based PI CDR is employed. In addition, a 2-order digital filter is adopted to improve the jitter performance in the CDR loop. This re-timer is achieved in 65 nm CMOS technology and supplied with 1.1 V. The simulation results show that the proposed re-timer can work at 32 Gb/s and consumes 91 mW. And it can equalize >−12 dB channel attenuation, tolerate the frequency difference of 200 ppm.