{"title":"A 10Gb/s CMOS AGC Amplifier with 35dB Dynamic Range for 10Gb Ethernet","authors":"Chih-Fan Liao, Shen-Iuan Liu","doi":"10.1109/ISSCC.2006.1696269","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"A 10Gb/s AGC amplifier is implemented in 0.18mum CMOS technology. The circuit uses a linear-in-dB controlled VGA with 58dB tuning range. For input swings from 18mV<sub>pp</sub> to 1V<sub>pp</sub>, the output swing is 430mV<sub>pp</sub> within +0.4 to -0.8dB variations. The measured dynamic range is 35dB with BER <10 <sup>-12</sup>. The AGC consumes 54mW from a 1.8V supply","PeriodicalId":166617,"journal":{"name":"2006 IEEE International Solid State Circuits Conference - Digest of Technical Papers","volume":"376 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2006-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"23","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2006 IEEE International Solid State Circuits Conference - Digest of Technical Papers","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISSCC.2006.1696269","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 23
Abstract
A 10Gb/s AGC amplifier is implemented in 0.18mum CMOS technology. The circuit uses a linear-in-dB controlled VGA with 58dB tuning range. For input swings from 18mVpp to 1Vpp, the output swing is 430mVpp within +0.4 to -0.8dB variations. The measured dynamic range is 35dB with BER <10 -12. The AGC consumes 54mW from a 1.8V supply