MOSFET modeling with SPICE: principles and practice
MOSFET modeling with SPICE: principles and practice
New CMOS Class AB Transmitter for 10 Gb/s Serial Links
Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing
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This paper presents a new class AB transmitter with a low supply voltage/ground bouncing sensitivity for 10 Gb/s serial links. The low sensitivity of the output current to supply voltage fluctuation and ground bouncing is achieved by operating the system in a rail-to-rail swing mode. High data rates are obtained by multiplexing at low-impedance nodes and inductive shunt peaking with active inductors. The fully differential configuration and bipolar signaling of the transmitter minimize the effect of both common-mode disturbances and electro-magnetic interferences exerted from channels to neighboring devices. The class AB operation of the transmitter minimizes its static power consumption. The proposed transmitter is implemented in a 1.2 V 0.13驴m CMOS technology and analyzed using Spectre from Cadence Design Systems with BSIM3v3 device models. Both pre and post-layout simulation results demonstrate that the transmitter conveys a sufficiently large differential output current that is insensitive to supply voltage fluctuation and ground bouncing at 10 Gb/s.