High-speed circuits for a multi-lane 12 Gbps CMOS PRBS generator

Shubha Bommalingaiahnapallya, Kin Joe Sham, Mahmoud Reza Ahmadi, Ramesh Harjani

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Abstract

This paper presents the design of a 12 Gbps multilane 231 -1 pseudo-random binary sequence (PRBS) generator in 0.18 μm TSMC process. The design incorporates a traditional CMOS latch optimized to operate at frequencies close to the fT of the process. In order to operate at frequencies higher than the limit imposed by the fT of the PMOS devices, the PRBS uses current-mode logic (CML) multiplexers (MUX) with modified active inductors, resulting in an improved large-signal behavior. As the architecture of choice for the PRBS generator, we chose to generate four sub-sequences at 3 Gbps and multiplex them up to obtain a 12 Gbps data stream. Furthermore, we multiplexed delayed versions of the 3 Gbps sub-sequences to obtain multiple non-correlated versions of the 231 - 1 pseudo-random sequence,. A prototype was implemented in 0.18 μm TSMC process. The high-speed CML MUX consumes 4 mA off a 1.8 V power supply, while the CMOS latch clocked at 1.5 GHz with an activity factor of 100% consumes 1 mA. The CMOS core consumes 340 mA and the CML circuitry consumes 32 mA per lane.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number4253533
Pages (from-to)3896-3899
Number of pages4
JournalProceedings - IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems
DOIs
StatePublished - 2007
Event2007 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, ISCAS 2007 - New Orleans, LA, United States
Duration: May 27 2007May 30 2007

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