A Data and Clock Recovery Circuit for Gigabit Ethernet
Li Zhang, Wei Zhou, Jian Gang Guo, Yu Chen, Zhen Fang, Shiquan Liu, Dong Wang, Hua Yang · 2025
In this paper, a clock and data recovery circuit for Gigabit Ethernet applications is designed. Based on the traditional phase interpolation loop architecture, we introduce an additional quarter-data-rate loop based on the Delay-Locked loop clock chain, which achieves fast clock locking and improves the stability of the system. The circuit was designed and fabricated on a 40nm CMOS process and integrated into a self-developed Tine Sensitive Networking (TSN) chip. The test results indirectly show that the circuit works well in the temperature range of$-55^{\circ} \mathrm{C} \sim 125^{\circ} \mathrm{C}$. The data clock recovery circuit performs well and operates normally, with total jitter below 40 ps and Bit Error Rate below$10^{-12}$, which meets the requirements of the Gigabit Ethernet protocol.