In order to make a 10 Gbit/s 2:1 half-rate multiplexer operate without external clocks, a 5 Gbit/s clock recovery (CR) circuit is needed to extract the desired clock from one input data. For the CR circuit, a 3-stage ring voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) is employed to avoid an unreliable startup of a 2-stage VCO and a low oscillation frequency of a 4-stage VCO. A phase frequency detector (PFD) is used to expand the pull-in range to meet the wide tuning range of a VCO required by process-voltage-temperature (PVT) variation. SMIC 0. 18-μm CMOS technology is adopted and the core area is 170 μm ×270 μm. Measurements show that, under a 1.8 V supply voltage, it consumes only about 90 mW, and has an input sensitivity of less than 25 mV, an output single-ended swing of above 300 mV, a phase noise of - 114 dBc/Hz at 1 MHz offset and a pull-in range of 1 GHz.
本文根据数据恢复时,本地时钟与输入数据之间的相位关系及其实现方式的不同,将高速时钟与数据恢复(CDR,Clock and Data Recovery)电路技术分为三类,也即前馈相位跟踪型,反馈相位跟踪型,以及盲过采样型。进而又分别对每一类型进行了细分并分别进行了深入的剖析和比较。最后又给出了不同应用环境下,CDR技术的选择策略,并指出了CDR技术的发展趋势。本文通过对高速CDR技术详尽而又深刻的分析比较,勾勒出了一个高速CDR技术的关系及发展演化图,使读者能够对现存的高速CDR技术及其发展趋势有一个前面而又清晰的认识。