3.7 A 7Gb/s rapid on/off embedded-clock serial-link transceiver with 20ns power-on time, 740μW off-state power for energy-proportional links in 65nm CMOS
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...To achieve instantaneous phase locking, the DCO is kick-started by a pulse to synchronize its power-on phase with the reference clock [6]....
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...While these techniques are often well-tailored for their specific use-case, they are either not suitable for system clocking [17], remain vulnerable to PVT variation [22], degrade steady-state performance in the form of excessive jitter [18], or do not support large changes in frequency divider ratios to avoid cycle-slipping limitations [19], [23]....
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...Several efforts in Tlock reduction for PLLs have been reported in the literature [17]–[21]....
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...Recently, start up times of 20 ns have been reported [12], which is three orders of magnitude smaller...
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...Idle and active I/O power are similar because high-speed links need to continuously transmit data even when idle to maintain synchronization between the transmitter and receiver [5], [18]....
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...We also examine 20ns wakeup latency [18] for sensitivity analysis....
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"3.7 A 7Gb/s rapid on/off embedded-c..." refers background in this paper
...Energy-proportional operation of serial links is imperative for realizing energy-efficient data centers and low-power mobile interfaces such as MIPI [1]....
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...64 • 2015 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference 3.7 A 7Gb/s Rapid On/Off Embedded-Clock Serial-Link Transceiver with 20ns Power-On Time, 740μW Off-State Power for Energy-Proportional Links in 65nm CMOS Tejasvi Anand1, Mrunmay Talegaonkar1, Ahmed Elkholy1, Saurabh Saxena1, Amr Elshazly2, Pavan Kumar Hanumolu1 1University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, 2Intel, Hillsboro, OR Energy-proportional operation of serial links is imperative for realizing energy-efficient data centers and low-power mobile interfaces such as MIPI [1]....
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...This Work [3] [2] [4] Dunwell Architecture PLL PLL PLL MDLL MILO Technology 65nm GP 40nm 40nm LP 90nm 65nm Supply [V] 1 NA 1....
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...Burst-mode communication, where the link is powered-off when idle and powered-on when needed, achieves energy proportional operation [2]....
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...This Work [3] [2] [4] Dunwell Architecture PLL PLL PLL MDLL MILO Technology 65nm GP 40nm 40nm LP 90nm 65nm Supply [V] 1 NA 1....
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"3.7 A 7Gb/s rapid on/off embedded-c..." refers background in this paper
...This Work [3] [2] [4] Dunwell Architecture PLL PLL PLL MDLL MILO Technology 65nm GP 40nm 40nm LP 90nm 65nm Supply [V] 1 NA 1....
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