Low-Power Techniques for Wireline Systems

As wireline transceivers continue to push for higher speeds, their power consumption becomes increasingly more critical. This paper describes methods that can reduce the power drawn by drivers and multiplexers on the transmit side and equalizers and clock and data recovery circuits on the receive side. These concepts have been incorporated in designs ranging from 40 Gb/s to 80 Gb/s in 45-nm and 28-nm process nodes.