TY - GEN
T1 - A TDC-based skew compensation technique for high-speed output driver
AU - Dhar, Debashis
AU - Jung, Inhwa
AU - Kim, Chulwoo
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - A time-to-digital converter (TDC)-based skew compensation technique is proposed to minimize timing skew between main and pre-emphasis signals of high-speed current mode output driver. Skew between signals of main and pre-emphasis branches of output driver increases jitter. The proposed technique measures and compensates the timing skew to reduce the jitter in the output data. With the compensation technique, maximum jitter reduction achieved is as high as 49%. The power overhead for the compensation block is only 7% of the total power consumption. The output driver with the proposed compensation technique is designed using 110 nm CMOS process technology.
AB - A time-to-digital converter (TDC)-based skew compensation technique is proposed to minimize timing skew between main and pre-emphasis signals of high-speed current mode output driver. Skew between signals of main and pre-emphasis branches of output driver increases jitter. The proposed technique measures and compensates the timing skew to reduce the jitter in the output data. With the compensation technique, maximum jitter reduction achieved is as high as 49%. The power overhead for the compensation block is only 7% of the total power consumption. The output driver with the proposed compensation technique is designed using 110 nm CMOS process technology.
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U2 - 10.1109/ISOCC.2012.6406925
DO - 10.1109/ISOCC.2012.6406925
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84873943206
SN - 9781467329880
T3 - ISOCC 2012 - 2012 International SoC Design Conference
SP - 61
EP - 64
BT - ISOCC 2012 - 2012 International SoC Design Conference
T2 - 2012 International SoC Design Conference, ISOCC 2012
Y2 - 4 November 2012 through 7 November 2012
ER -