A 780 mW 4 × 28 Gb/s Transceiver for 100 GbE Gearbox PHY in 40 nm CMOS

This paper describes a reconfigurable 4 × 28 Gb/s transceiver supporting 100 GbE/40 GbE standards. In each lane, the transmitter incorporates a 3-tap FIR with independent output phase adjustment, and the receiver has a half-rate CDR with a dedicated eye-monitor channel. There is a global resonant clock distribution network implemented using programmable distributed on-chip inductors. Implemented in a 40 nm CMOS process, the TX output measures 1.87 pspp DJ and 202 fsrms RJ. The RX jitter tolerance is 0.46 UIpp at 80 MHz with an input sensitivity of 27 mVpp-diff. The transceiver achieves BER on a channel with 20 dB loss at Nyquist, dissipating only 780 mW from a 0.9 V supply for all four lanes at 28 Gb/s operation.