A 20Gbaud/s PAM-4 65nm CMOS optical receiver using 3D solenoid based bandwidth enhancement
Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems Conference Proceedings(2017)
摘要
This paper presents an optical receiver (RX) suitable for amplifying a high-speed PAM-4 signal. To achieve a high gain-bandwidth product at low power consumption, a triple inductively peaked regulated cascode (RGC) transimpedance amplifier is used. The inductors are implemented as small 3D solenoids to reduce chip area and optimized for minimum group delay variation. The receiver further includes a Cherry Hooper variable gain amplifier, a continuous time linear equalizer and a 50 Omega differential buffer, and achieves a gain of 65 dB Omega at 14 GHz bandwidth. The chip was fabricated using a 65nm CMOS technology and integrated with an 80fF Germanium photodiode by a microbump flip-chip process onto a Silicon Photonic chip. The input referred noise current density is 23.4 pA/root Hz. Clear eye diagrams up to 20Gbaud/s (40Gbit/s) have been measured. At this baud rate, the RX's power consumption is 80mW, corresponding to an energy efficiency of 2pJ/bit.
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Silicon Photonics,optical interconnects,CMOS technology,PAM-4,optical receiver,regulated cascode (RGC),linear equalization
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