16 Gbps high-speed I/O link

Designed 16 Gbps I/O link with mesochronous clocking over a lossy 12" backplane channel in Cadence Virtuoso (65 nm CMOS). TX consists of 4:1 serializer, multi-phase clock generator, predrivers, segmented VM driver with SST and 3-tap FFE. RX is composed of active CTLE, quarter rate slicers (Strong-Arm Latch topology), 4:1 synchronizer. Energy efficiency of 0.766 pJ/bit was achieved.

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