An 11Gb/s Inductive-Coupling Link with Burst Transmission

Abstract

An inductive-coupling link is presented whose data rate is 11Gb/s for a distance of 15mum and 8.5Gb/s for a distance of 45mum. The data rate is increased by 11 to 8.5x over past inductive-coupling links. Compared with the capacitive-coupling link (Cu et al., 2007), the communication distance is extended by 5x for the same data rate, layout area, and bit error rate (BER), even by using a less- scaled device technology, 0.18mum CMOS.