A 20Gbps on-chip transceiver with equalization technique for global signal transmission
Wei Mo, Keng Chen, Yi Liu, Qi Wang · 2012
In order to achieve high-speed and low-power signal transmission in long interconnection of Network on Chip (NoC), the performance of co-planar differential transmission line (DTL) is analyzed by HFSS in this paper. Current Mode Logic (CML) transmitter and Continuous-Time Linear Equalizer (CTLE) are adopted to reduce the impact of line loss and inter-symbol interference (ISI). Simulation results by Spectre show that the transceiver can transmit 20Gbps data through 10mm DTL in 130nm standard CMOS process, the unit power is only 0.44pj/bit.