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High-Speed ADC Design and Optimization for Wireline Links

The ever-growing global internet traffic has increased demand for higher speed data transmission. As the bandwidth requirements of wireline links increase, extensive digital equalization techniques are required to compensate for the high-frequency channel ...

EPFL2021

A 32 Gb/s PAM-16 TX and ADC-Based RX AFE with 2-tap embedded analog FFE in 28 nm FDSOI

Yusuf Leblebici, Firat Çelik, Ayça Akkaya

This paper presents a 32 Gb/s 16-level pulse amplitude modulation (PAM-16) source-series-terminated transmitter (TX) and a receiver (RX) analog front-end (AFE) in 28 nm FDSOI. The 8-way time-interleaved successive-approximation register (SAR) analog-to-dig ...

2021

A Low-Power 9-Bit 222 MS/s Asynchronous SAR ADC in 65 nm CMOS

Yusuf Leblebici, Firat Çelik, Ayça Akkaya

This paper presents a 9-bit 222 MS/s low-power asynchronous single-bit/cycle successive approximation register (SAR) ADC. The SAR ADC combines techniques such as asynchronous clocking, binary-weighted custom-designed capacitive DAC with small unit capacito ...

IEEE2020

A 10b SAR ADC with Widely Scalable Sampling Rate and AGC Amplifier Front-End

Yusuf Leblebici, Seyed Armin Tajalli, Firat Çelik, Ayça Akkaya

This paper presents a low power successive approximation register (SAR) ADC and its front-end automatic gain control (AGC) amplifier designed in 65nm CMOS technology. Digitally controlled variable gain amplifier (VGA) in AGC loop is used to maximize the dy ...

IEEE2018

An 8-Bit 800 MS/s Loop-Unrolled SAR ADC With Common-Mode Adaptive Background Offset Calibration in 28 nm FDSOI

Yusuf Leblebici, Firat Çelik, Ayça Akkaya

This paper presents a low-power single-channel 8-bit loop-unrolled (LU) successive approximation register (SAR) analog-to-digital-converter (ADC) with a novel common-mode adaptive background comparator offset calibration scheme. LU-SAR ADCs use multiple co ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2021

A 32-Gb/s PAM-4 SST Transmitter With Four-Tap FFE Using High-Impedance Driver in 28-nm FDSOI

Yusuf Leblebici, Firat Çelik, Ayça Akkaya

With increasing modulation order, a larger number of parallel source-series-terminated (SST) segments are required to implement precise feedforward equalization (FFE) tap-weight control in SST transmitters (TX). Due to the data routing complexity of the se ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2021

ISI Sensitivity of PAM Signaling for Very High-Speed Short-Reach Copper Links

Yusuf Leblebici, Seyed Armin Tajalli, Firat Çelik, Ayça Akkaya

This paper presents a comparative study, analyzing the potentials of pulse amplitude modulation (PAM) for implementing next generation high-speed copper wireline links. This comparative study analyzes the sensitivities of PAM2, PAM4 and PAM8 to inter-symbo ...

IEEE2019

JESD204B Compliant 12.5 Gb/s LVDS and SST Transmitters in 28 nm FD-SOI CMOS

Yusuf Leblebici, Andreas Peter Burg, Seyed Armin Tajalli, Firat Çelik, Ayça Akkaya

JESD204B compliant low-voltage differential signaling (LVDS), and source-series-terminated (SST) transmitters in 28 nm FD-SOI CMOS technology are presented with 1.1 pJ/bit and 1.7 pJ/bit at 12.5 Gb/s, respectively. An external 6.25 GHz single-ended clock, ...

IEEE2019