A Cmos 500 Mbps/pin Synchronous Point to Point Link Interface

Abstract

This paper describes the design of a high speed interface for a multiprocessor interconnection network. To achieve higher transfer rates, the interface utilizes a voltage swing of 1 V, a Delay Line PLL and sampling of the data on both edges of the clock. Chips fabricated in a 0.8 pm CMOS technology achieve transfer rates of 700 Mbpdpin operating from a 3.3-V supply. Worst case measured peak-to-peak clock jitter is 260 ps (63 ps RMS). The layout area occupied by the DLL and the associated clock duty cycle adjuster is 460x800 pni2.