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Fractional-N DPLL-Based Low-Power Clocking Architecture for 1–14 Gb/s Multi-Standard Transmitter
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits Solid-State Circuits, IEEE Journal of. 52(10):2647-2662 Oct, 2017
Subject
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Computing and Processing
Phase locked loops
Clocks
Voltage-controlled oscillators
Phase noise
Jitter
Tuning
Quantization (signal)
Dither-less digital phase-locked loop (PLL)
fractional-N PLL
low-power clocking
multi-standard transmitter
quarter-rate transmitter
Language
ISSN
0018-9200
1558-173X
Abstract
A low-power clocking solution is presented based on fractional-N highly digital LC-phase-locked loop (PLL) and sub-sampled ring PLL targeting multi-standard SerDes applications. The shared fractional-N digital LC-PLL covers 7–10 GHz frequency range consuming only 8-mW power and occupying 0.15 mm 2 of silicon area with integrated jitter of 264 fs. Frequency resolution of the LC-PLL is 2 MHz. Per lane clock is generated using wide bandwidth ring PLL covering 800 MHz to 4 GHz to support the data rates between 1 and 14 Gb/s. The ring PLL supports dither-less fractional resolution of 250 MHz, corrects I/Q error with split tuning, and achieves less than 400-fs integrated jitter. Transmitter works at 14 Gb/s with power efficiency of 0.80 pJ/bit.