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Elad Alon
Dept. of EECS
EE290C Lecture 3 2
• TX Circuit Design
• Z control
• CML, VM drivers
• Power vs. swing
• Serialization options
- +
d
VS/2 ref -
shared
Differential
+ -
- d
d
• RX opposite of TX
• Signal integrity implications?
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Rs L
• Main issue is variation: +/-20% at one temperature 0.80
Normalized amplitude
LI
• But Gd C 0.60
CI
• It’s relatively linear RI
0.40
"low_CL"
• Low parasitics…
"8_drop"
Ci, Ri 0.00
1e+008 1e+009
typically dominate Freq (Hz)
• VM, CM
• HCM, LCM
50Ω 50Ω
Zo = 50Ω
Tx Rx
Zo = 50Ω
Io = - 21m A
• “High-swing” driver:
• Low-swing VM driver:
Higher Speeds
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