A 200Gb/s PAM-4 Transmitter with Hybrid Sub-Sampling PLL in 28nm CMOS Technology
Zhongkai Wang (University of California)
Minsoo Choi (Samsung Semiconductor)
Paul Kwon (University of California)
Kyoungtae Lee (University of California)
Bozhi Yin (University of California)
Zhaokai Liu (University of California)
Kwanseo Park (University of California)
Ayan Biswas (University of California)
Sijun Du (TU Delft - Electronic Instrumentation)
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Abstract
This paper presents a complete 200Gb/s PAM-4 transmitter (TX) in 28nm CMOS technology. The transmitter features a hybrid sub-sampling PLL (SSPLL) with a delta-sigma (?S) modulator, clock distribution network with flexible timing control, and data path with a hybrid 5-tap Feed-Forward Equalizer (FFE) and T-coil for bandwidth extension. The prototype chip achieves 4.69 pJ/bit efficiency, 54mV eye height, 0.27UI eye width, and 97% RLM under -6dB channel loss at 50GHz.