Towards a sub-2.5V, 100-Gb/s serial transceiver

Proceedings of the Custom Integrated Circuits Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 471-478

  Voinigescu, S P ^a   Aroca, R ^a   Dickson, T O ^a,c   Nicolson, S T ^a   Chalvatzis, T ^a   Chevalier, P ^b   Garcia, P ^b   Garnier, C ^b   Sautreuil, B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b STMICROELECTRONICS   (France)

^c IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BICMOS TECHNOLOGY; ELECTRIC TRANSFORMERS; FREQUENCY DIVIDING CIRCUITS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SEMICONDUCTING SILICON COMPOUNDS; STATIC ANALYSIS;

CLOCK DISTRIBUTION NETWORKS; STATIC FREQUENCY DIVIDERS;

TRANSCEIVERS;

EID: 39549114333     PISSN: 08865930     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CICC.2007.4405776     Document Type: Conference Paper

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