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Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Volume 2011 (2011), Article ID 701730, 7 pages
doi:10.1155/2011/701730
A Wide Lock-Range Referenceless CDR with Automatic Frequency Acquisition
Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), San 31, Hyojadong, Pohang 790-784, Republic of Korea
Received 26 April 2011; Accepted 16 June 2011
Academic Editor: Woogeun Rhee
Copyright © 2011 Seon-Kyoo Lee et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
A wide lock-range referenceless CDR circuit is proposed with an automatic tracking of data rate. For efficient frequency acquisition, a DLL-based loop is used with a simple phase/frequency detector to extract 1-bit period of input data stream. The CDR, implemented in a 65 nm CMOS, shows a lock range of 650 Mb/s-to-8 Gb/s and BER of less than 10−12 at 8 Gb/s with low power consumption.