Design of high-speed high-performance, serial bus data transceiver
Saravanan K. Kuppusamy, S. M. Rezaul Hasan · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 2000
Recent developments in digital data transport shows that the general trend is moving towards high-speed, low-cost serial networks. Standards such as USB and the relatively new IEEE1394, provide inexpensive, scalable and truly universal I/O connection for virtually any form of digital hardware. Bandwidth requirements for multimedia applications such as real-time digital audio and video, digital broadcasting, wide-band ethernet and the emergence of consumer products such as digital camcorders and VCRs makes data rates of up to 400Mbit/s and beyond, a necessity. In this work we have developed a high-speed high-performance serial bus transceiver, which conforms to the IEEE1394 standards. The HP 0.5micrometers scalable CMOS process available through MOSIS was used for the hardware design. Data rates of up to 800Mbit/s are achieve din comparison to previous similar works that only achieves 300Mbit/s using a BiCMOS process.