A 9 Gb/s/ch Transceiver with Reference-Less Data-Embedded Pseudo-Differential Clock Signaling for Graphics Memory Interfaces

Junyoung Song, Yongtae Kim, Chulwoo Kim

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    Abstract

    A 9 Gb/s/ch transceiver with a reference-less data-embedded pseudo-differential clock signaling (RDCS) for graphics memory interfaces is proposed in a 65-nm CMOS technology. In the RDCS transceiver, the output data is embedded into differential clock signal by adopting a multi-level amplitude modulation in the transmitter (TX), and the data is recovered by extracting the data information from clock signal without reference clock in the receiver (RX) side. Because the data is synchronized with the clock at the TX, the received data can be recovered without DLL in the RX side. In addition, the additional pins required in the graphics memory interfaces can be removed by applying the proposed RDCS. The proposed design achieves less than 10-12 bit error rate with 9 Gb/s/ch data rate, and measured jitter in the recovered clock is 1.42 psRMS. In addition, the power efficiencies of the TX and RX are 2.33 and 1.03 pJ/bit, respectively.

    Original languageEnglish
    Article number8628259
    Pages (from-to)1982-1986
    Number of pages5
    JournalIEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs
    Volume66
    Issue number12
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2019 Dec

    Bibliographical note

    Funding Information:
    Manuscript received October 14, 2018; revised November 19, 2018; accepted January 1, 2019. Date of publication January 28, 2019; date of current version December 6, 2019. This work was supported by the Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education under Grant NRF-2018R1D1A1A02086062. This brief was recommended by Associate Editor M. H. Chowdhury. (Corresponding author: Chulwoo Kim.) J. Song is with the Department of Electronics Engineering, Incheon National University, Incheon 22012, South Korea.

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    © 2004-2012 IEEE.

    Keywords

    • DRAM
    • data-embedded clock signaling
    • graphics DRAM
    • memory interface
    • multi-level signaling
    • reference-less interface
    • transceiver

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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