A $4\,{\times }10$ -Gb/s Referenceless-and-Masterless Phase Rotator-Based Parallel Transceiver in 90-nm CMOS

A four-parallel 10-Gb/s referenceless-and-masterless phase rotator-based transceiver is presented. Entire lanes operate independently just like the conventional voltage-controlled-oscillator-based parallel referenceless designs while saving power and area. The measured recovered-clock jitter in each lane is 1.24 psrms and the transceiver surpasses the OC-192 jitter-tolerance specification. The pow...