access icon free High-speed mobile memory I/O interface using multi-modulation signalling

The proposed multi-band multi-modulation I/O (MMI) for mobile memory interface consists of two RF-band and 4-PAM (pulse-amplitude modulation) transceivers for simultaneous bidirectional read/write operations on a shared single-ended 5 cm off-chip transmission line. A novel band-selective transformer is introduced to combine and split two amplitude shift keying modulated RF-bands with a 4-PAM baseband for transmitting and receiving multiple data concurrently. The MMI interface consumes 2.8 pJ/b from a 1.2 V supply voltage. Testing results show that the MMI interface achieves an overall data rate of 14 Gb/s/pin. It is implemented in a 65 nm CMOS process with chip area of 0.25 mm2.

Inspec keywords: amplitude shift keying; transformers; CMOS integrated circuits; pulse amplitude modulation

Other keywords: CMOS process; MMI interface; novel band-selective transformer; multi-modulation signalling; RF-band; 4-PAM baseband; high-speed mobile memory I/O interface; amplitude shift keying

Subjects: CMOS integrated circuits; Modulation and coding methods; Inductors and transformers

http://iet.metastore.ingenta.com/content/journals/10.1049/el.2017.4685
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