Roadmap toward the 10 ps time-of-flight PET challenge

P Lecoq, C Morel, JO Prior, D Visvikis… - Physics in Medicine …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Since the seventies, positron emission tomography (PET) has become an invaluable
medical molecular imaging modality with an unprecedented sensitivity at the picomolar …

CMOS inverter as analog circuit: An overview

W Bae - Journal of Low Power Electronics and Applications, 2019 - mdpi.com
Since the CMOS technology scaling has focused on improving digital circuit, the design of
conventional analog circuits has become more and more difficult. To overcome this …

Supply-scalable high-speed I/O interfaces

W Bae - Electronics, 2020 - mdpi.com
Improving the energy efficiency of computer communication is becoming more and more
important as the world is creating a massive amount of data, while the interface has been a …

A fully adaptive 19–58-Gb/s PAM-4 and 9.5–29-Gb/s NRZ wireline transceiver with configurable ADC in 16-nm FinFET

P Upadhyaya, CF Poon, SW Lim, J Cho… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The design of a dual-mode, 19-58-Gb/s four-level pulse-amplitude modulation (PAM-4) and
9.5-29-Gb/s nonreturn to zero (NRZ), transceiver in 16-nm FinFET is presented. The fully …

A 112-Gb/s PAM-4 voltage-mode transmitter with four-tap two-step FFE and automatic phase alignment techniques in 40-nm CMOS

PJ Peng, YT Chen, ST Lai… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents a 112-Gb/s four-level pulse amplitude modulation (PAM-4) voltage-
mode transmitter (TX) with a four-tap feed-forward equalizer (FFE). A two-step coarse-/fine …

A 32-Gb/s PAM-4 SST transmitter with four-tap FFE using high-impedance driver in 28-nm FDSOI

F Celik, A Akkaya, A Tajalli… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With increasing modulation order, a larger number of parallel source-series-terminated
(SST) segments are required to implement precise feedforward equalization (FFE) tap …

A 112-Gb/s PAM4 transmitter in 16nm FinFET

KH Tan, PC Chiang, Y Wang, H Zhao… - … IEEE Symposium on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work reports a 112-Gb/s low power voltage-mode transmitter (TX) with four-tap feed
forward equalization (FFE), designed and fabricated in 16nm FinFET technology. The …

GUI-enhanced layout generation of FFE SST TXs for fast high-speed serial link design

S Han, S Jeong, C Kim, HJ Park… - 2020 57th ACM/IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present the first FFE SST TX layout generator enhanced by various software techniques
including a GUI-based template engine. Seven different DRC/LVS-clean TXs were …

A 40-Gb/s PAM-4 transmitter using a 0.16-pJ/bit SST-CML-hybrid (SCH) output driver and a hybrid-path 3-Tap FFE scheme in 28-nm CMOS

C Fan, WH Yu, PI Mak… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes an SST-CML-Hybrid (SCH) output driver, and its corresponding hybrid-
path feed-forward equalization (FFE) scheme, to enhance the energy efficiency of a PAM-4 …

Design and comparative study of voltage regulation-based 2-tap flexible feed-forward equalizer for voltage-mode transmitters

JH Chae, YU Jeong, BD Choi - IEEE Access, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Herein, the analog-based, 2-tap feed-forward equalization (FFE) voltage-mode transmitter
using dual supply/ground voltage regulation is presented. In an FFE data modulator, the …