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An 8 Gb/s all‐digital phase discrimination picosecond pulse generator
Author(s) -
Chen Bolin,
Zhang Youming,
Tang Xusheng,
Huang Fengyi
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
microwave and optical technology letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.304
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1098-2760
pISSN - 0895-2477
DOI - 10.1002/mop.31709
Subject(s) - pulse generator , impulse generator , pulse (music) , electrical engineering , impulse (physics) , pulse width modulation , cmos , generator (circuit theory) , materials science , clock generator , electronic engineering , computer science , power (physics) , physics , engineering , electronic circuit , voltage , clock signal , quantum mechanics
This article presents an oscillator‐free pulse generator using direct digital‐to‐impulse technique. The pulse generator is based on an all‐digital phase discrimination circuit fabricated in a standard 65 nm CMOS process. A 55.6 mV output pulse with an 18.9‐ps full width at half maximum can be achieved. The testing prototype consumes 0.72 mW in 8 Gb/s input data rate, suitable for low‐power ultrahigh speed wireless communication.