Clocking and circuit design for a parallel I/O on a first-generation CELL processor

Ken Chang, Sudhakar Pamarti, Kambiz Kaviani, E. Alon, Xudong Shi, T. Chin, Jie Shen, G. L. Yip, C. Madden, Ralf Schmitt,

2005 · 59 citations · 5 references

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Abstract

A parallel I/O is integrated on a first-generation CELL processor in 90nm SOI CMOS. A clock-tracking architecture suppresses reference jitter to achieve 6.4Gbit/s/link operation at 21.6mW/Gbit/s. SOI effects on analog circuits, in particular high-speed receivers, are addressed to achieve a receiver sensitivity of /spl plusmn/12mV at 6.4Gbit/s with BER <10/sup -14/ measured using 7b PRBS data.

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