Receiver equalization for a 10 gigabit per second high-speed serial link in 65 nm CMOS technology

This thesis addresses the receiver equalization techniques for a 10 Gbps USB 3.1 link in 65 nm CMOS technology. Two types of equalizers are implemented: a continuous time linear equalizer (CTLE) and a 1-tap full-rate decision feedback equalizer (DFE). The combined CTLE and DFE architecture is simulated with an rms receiver clock jitter of 5.3 ps and achieves a BER < 10E−12 while consuming 3.3 mW at the Nyquist frequency of 5 GHz