A 70 mW 25 Gb/s Quarter-Rate SerDes Transmitter and Receiver Chipset With 40 dB of Equalization in 65 nm CMOS Technology.

A 25 Gb/s transmitter (TX) and receiver (RX) chipset designed in a 65 nm CMOS technology is presented. The proposed quarter-rate TX architecture with divider-less clock generation can not only guarantee the timing constraint for the highest-speed serialization, but also save power compared with the conventional designs. A source-series terminated (SST) driver with a 2-tap feed-forward equalizer (F...