Design and characterization of a CMOS off-chip driver/receiver withreduced power-supply disturbance |
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Authors: | Hanafi HI Dennard RH Chen C-L Weiss RJ Zicherman DS |
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Affiliation: | IBM Thomas J. Watson Res. Center, Yorktown Heights, NY; |
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Abstract: | A CMOS off-chip signal driver that achieves a 2.5-3 times smaller di/dt noise than the conventional design while not incurring the penalty of signal delay is described. It minimizes L di/dt effects by reducing the output signal swing by about a factor of 2 and by providing a controlled ramp rate for the output current. The circuit has a nearly constant output resistance for source termination of transmission lines, and includes a receiver designed for the smaller signal swing. Simulations show a driver-receiver delay of 3 ns for a 7.5-cm line on a multichip package with a peak di/dt of only 12 mA/ns. Driver-receiver delay and noise measurements are also presented |
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