{"title":"An 800GbE PAM-4 PHY Transceiver for 42 dB Copper and Direct-Drive Optical Applications in 7 nm","authors":"Chang Liu;Burak Catli;Yong Liu;Anand Vasani;Guansheng Li;Kun Chuai;Lakshmi Rao;Yang Liu;Xin Meng;Jiawen Zhang;Tim He;Batu Dayanik;Vadim Milirud;Meisam Honarvar Nazari;Hyo Gyuem Rhew;Derui Kong;Arvindh Iyer;Nan Wang;Alireza Nilchi;Aminghasem Safarian;Ray Wang;Hyung-Joon Jeon;Xiaochen Yang;Boyu Hu;Jerry Han;Adesh Garg;Kumar Thasari;Heng Zhang;Namik Kocaman;Ali Nazemi;Delong Cui;Afshin Momtaz;Jun Cao","doi":"10.1109/LSSC.2025.3608134","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This work presents a low power DSP-based single-chip 800GbE PAM-4 PHY transceiver in 7 nm process capable of driving eight lanes of up to 112-Gb/s. It supports both electrical and optical links with monolithic integrated laser driver enabling direct-drive PAM-4 output capability for EML and silicon photonics. The transceiver supports 42 dB IL channel at Nyquist with pre-FEC BER<3E-8. The per-lane analog power efficiency is 2.59pJ/b for low-swing drive mode and 4.58 pJ/b for direct-drive mode.","PeriodicalId":13032,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters","volume":"8 ","pages":"281-284"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0000,"publicationDate":"2025-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"IEEE Solid-State Circuits Letters","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11157760/","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"COMPUTER SCIENCE, HARDWARE & ARCHITECTURE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This work presents a low power DSP-based single-chip 800GbE PAM-4 PHY transceiver in 7 nm process capable of driving eight lanes of up to 112-Gb/s. It supports both electrical and optical links with monolithic integrated laser driver enabling direct-drive PAM-4 output capability for EML and silicon photonics. The transceiver supports 42 dB IL channel at Nyquist with pre-FEC BER<3E-8. The per-lane analog power efficiency is 2.59pJ/b for low-swing drive mode and 4.58 pJ/b for direct-drive mode.