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Design of a Reliable Broadband I/O Employing T-coil

  • Kim, Seok (Department of Semiconductor Systems Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University) ;
  • Kim, Shin-Ae (Department of Semiconductor Systems Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University) ;
  • Jung, Goeun (Department of Semiconductor Systems Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University) ;
  • Kwon, Kee-Won (Department of Semiconductor Systems Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University) ;
  • Chun, Jung-Hoon (Department of Semiconductor Systems Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University)
  • Received : 2009.08.23
  • Published : 2009.12.30
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Abstract

Inductive peaking using T-coils has been widely used in broadband I/O interfaces. In this paper, we analyze technical effects and limitations of the T-coil, and discuss several methods that can overcome these restrictions and improve the practicality of the T-coil. In particular we also propose and verify a circuit topology which can further extend bandwidth beyond the limit that conventional T-coil can achieve, and transfer 20 Gb/s data without noticeable distortion.

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