10 Gb/s SerDes for Bidirectional Chip-to-Memory Optical Interconnection

A new hybrid serializer/deserializer (SerDes) of shift-register and tree structures is proposed. Shared common blocks between multiplexer/demultiplexer (Mux/Demux) on a single chip save power of 63% and 37% in Mux/Demux mode respectively compared to using separate chips. The chip is simulated in a 0.18 mum CMOS technology, operates up to 10 Gb/s.