622 Mbps 8 mW CMOS Low-Voltage Interface Circuit

Takashi TOMITA  Koichi YOKOMIZO  Takao HIRAKOSO  Kazukiyo HAGA  Kuniharu HIROSE  

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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics   Vol.E78-C   No.12   pp.1726-1732
Publication Date: 1995/12/25
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Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Issue on Low-power Analog, Digital LSIs and ASICs for Multimedia)
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CMOS,  interface circuit,  high speed,  small swing,  low voltage,  

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This paper describes ALINX (Advanced Low-voltage Interface Circuit System), a low-power and high-speed interface circuit of submicron CMOS LSI for digital information and telecommunications systems. Differential and single-ended ALINXs are low-voltage swing I/O interface circuits with less than 1.0 V swing from a 1.2 V supply. Specifically, the differential ALINX features a pair of complementary NMOS push-pull drivers operating from a 1.2 V supply, reducing power consumption compared to conventional high-speed interface circuits operating from a 5 V or 3.3 V supply. The DC power consumption is approximately 11% of ECL. We observed 622 Mbps differential transmission with 8 mW power consumption and single-ended transmission at 311 Mbps with 14 mW with a PN23 pseudo-random pattern. We also describe a noise characteristic and ALINX applications to high-speed data buses and LSI for telecommunications systems. A time/space switch LSI with 0.9 W total power consumption was fabricated by 0.5 µm CMOS process technology. This chip can use a plastic QFP.