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    ํ•™์œ„๋…ผ๋ฌธ(๋ฐ•์‚ฌ) -- ์„œ์šธ๋Œ€ํ•™๊ต๋Œ€ํ•™์› : ๊ณต๊ณผ๋Œ€ํ•™ ์ „๊ธฐยท์ •๋ณด๊ณตํ•™๋ถ€, 2022. 8. ์ •๋•๊ท .In this dissertation, major concerns in the clocking of modern serial links are discussed. As sub-rate, multi-standard architectures are becoming predominant, the conventional clocking methodology seems to necessitate innovation in terms of low-cost implementation. Frequency synthesis with active, inductor-less oscillators replacing LC counterparts are reviewed, and solutions for two major drawbacks are proposed. Each solution is verified by prototype chip design, giving a possibility that the inductor-less oscillator may become a proper candidate for future high-speed serial links. To mitigate the high flicker noise of a high-frequency ring oscillator (RO), a reference multiplication technique that effectively extends the bandwidth of the following all-digital phase-locked loop (ADPLL) is proposed. The technique avoids any jitter accumulation, generating a clean mid-frequency clock, overall achieving high jitter performance in conjunction with the ADPLL. Timing constraint for the proper reference multiplication is first analyzed to determine the calibration points that may correct the existent phase errors. The weight for each calibration point is updated by the proposed a priori probability-based least-mean-square (LMS) algorithm. To minimize the time required for the calibration, each gain for the weight update is adaptively varied by deducing a posteriori which error source dominates the others. The prototype chip is fabricated in a 40-nm CMOS technology, and its measurement results verify the low-jitter, high-frequency clock generation with fast calibration settling. The presented work achieves an rms jitter of 177/223 fs at 8/16-GHz output, consuming 12.1/17-mW power. As the second embodiment, an RO-based ADPLL with an analog technique that addresses the high supply sensitivity of the RO is presented. Unlike prior arts, the circuit for the proposed technique does not extort the RO voltage headroom, allowing high-frequency oscillation. Further, the performance given from the technique is robust over process, voltage, and temperature (PVT) variations, avoiding the use of additional calibration hardware. Lastly, a comprehensive analysis of phase noise contribution is conducted for the overall ADPLL, followed by circuit optimizations, to retain the low-jitter output. Implemented in a 40-nm CMOS technology, the frequency synthesizer achieves an rms jitter of 289 fs at 8 GHz output without any injected supply noise. Under a 20-mVrms white supply noise, the ADPLL suppresses supply-noise-induced jitter by -23.8 dB.๋ณธ ๋…ผ๋ฌธ์€ ํ˜„๋Œ€ ์‹œ๋ฆฌ์–ผ ๋งํฌ์˜ ํด๋ฝํ‚น์— ๊ด€์—ฌ๋˜๋Š” ์ฃผ์š”ํ•œ ๋ฌธ์ œ๋“ค์— ๋Œ€ํ•˜์—ฌ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ํ•œ๋‹ค. ์ค€์†๋„, ๋‹ค์ค‘ ํ‘œ์ค€ ๊ตฌ์กฐ๋“ค์ด ์ฑ„ํƒ๋˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋Š” ์ถ”์„ธ์— ๋”ฐ๋ผ, ๊ธฐ์กด์˜ ํด๋ผํ‚น ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์€ ๋‚ฎ์€ ๋น„์šฉ์˜ ๊ตฌํ˜„์˜ ๊ด€์ ์—์„œ ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ํ˜์‹ ์„ ํ•„์š”๋กœ ํ•œ๋‹ค. LC ๊ณต์ง„๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋Œ€์‹ ํ•˜์—ฌ ๋Šฅ๋™ ์†Œ์ž ๋ฐœ์ง„๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์‚ฌ์šฉํ•œ ์ฃผํŒŒ์ˆ˜ ํ•ฉ์„ฑ์— ๋Œ€ํ•˜์—ฌ ์•Œ์•„๋ณด๊ณ , ์ด์— ๋ฐœ์ƒํ•˜๋Š” ๋‘๊ฐ€์ง€ ์ฃผ์š” ๋ฌธ์ œ์ ๊ณผ ๊ฐ๊ฐ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ํ•ด๊ฒฐ ๋ฐฉ์•ˆ์„ ํƒ์ƒ‰ํ•œ๋‹ค. ๊ฐ ์ œ์•ˆ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์„ ํ”„๋กœํ† ํƒ€์ž… ์นฉ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ๊ทธ ํšจ์šฉ์„ฑ์„ ๊ฒ€์ฆํ•˜๊ณ , ์ด์–ด์„œ ๋Šฅ๋™ ์†Œ์ž ๋ฐœ์ง„๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ๋ฏธ๋ž˜์˜ ๊ณ ์† ์‹œ๋ฆฌ์–ผ ๋งํฌ์˜ ํด๋ฝํ‚น์— ์‚ฌ์šฉ๋  ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์— ๋Œ€ํ•ด ๊ฒ€ํ† ํ•œ๋‹ค. ์ฒซ๋ฒˆ์งธ ์‹œ์—ฐ์œผ๋กœ์จ, ๊ณ ์ฃผํŒŒ ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ ๋ฐœ์ง„๊ธฐ์˜ ๋†’์€ ํ”Œ๋ฆฌ์ปค ์žก์Œ์„ ์™„ํ™”์‹œํ‚ค๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ๊ธฐ์ค€ ์‹ ํ˜ธ๋ฅผ ๋ฐฐ์ˆ˜ํ™”ํ•˜์—ฌ ๋’ท๋‹จ์˜ ์œ„์ƒ ๊ณ ์ • ๋ฃจํ”„์˜ ๋Œ€์—ญํญ์„ ํšจ๊ณผ์ ์œผ๋กœ ๊ทน๋Œ€ํ™” ์‹œํ‚ค๋Š” ํšŒ๋กœ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์„ ์ œ์•ˆํ•œ๋‹ค. ๋ณธ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์€ ์ง€ํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ๋ˆ„์  ์‹œํ‚ค์ง€ ์•Š์œผ๋ฉฐ ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ๊นจ๋—ํ•œ ์ค‘๊ฐ„ ์ฃผํŒŒ์ˆ˜ ํด๋ฝ์„ ์ƒ์„ฑ์‹œ์ผœ ์œ„์ƒ ๊ณ ์ • ๋ฃจํ”„์™€ ํ•จ๊ป˜ ๋†’์€ ์„ฑ๋Šฅ์˜ ๊ณ ์ฃผํŒŒ ํด๋ฝ์„ ํ•ฉ์„ฑํ•œ๋‹ค. ๊ธฐ์ค€ ์‹ ํ˜ธ๋ฅผ ์„ฑ๊ณต์ ์œผ๋กœ ๋ฐฐ์ˆ˜ํ™”ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ํƒ€์ด๋ฐ ์กฐ๊ฑด๋“ค์„ ๋จผ์ € ๋ถ„์„ํ•˜์—ฌ ํƒ€์ด๋ฐ ์˜ค๋ฅ˜๋ฅผ ์ œ๊ฑฐํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•๋ก ์„ ํŒŒ์•…ํ•œ๋‹ค. ๊ฐ ๊ต์ • ์ค‘๋Ÿ‰์€ ์—ฐ์—ญ์  ํ™•๋ฅ ์„ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜์œผ๋กœํ•œ LMS ์•Œ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ์ฆ˜์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ๊ฐฑ์‹ ๋˜๋„๋ก ์„ค๊ณ„๋œ๋‹ค. ๊ต์ •์— ํ•„์š”ํ•œ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ์ตœ์†Œํ™” ํ•˜๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•˜์—ฌ, ๊ฐ ๊ต์ • ์ด๋“์€ ํƒ€์ด๋ฐ ์˜ค๋ฅ˜ ๊ทผ์›๋“ค์˜ ํฌ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๊ท€๋‚ฉ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ถ”๋ก ํ•œ ๊ฐ’์„ ๋ฐ”ํƒ•์œผ๋กœ ์ง€์†์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ œ์–ด๋œ๋‹ค. 40-nm CMOS ๊ณต์ •์œผ๋กœ ๊ตฌํ˜„๋œ ํ”„๋กœํ† ํƒ€์ž… ์นฉ์˜ ์ธก์ •์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ €์†Œ์Œ, ๊ณ ์ฃผํŒŒ ํด๋ฝ์„ ๋น ๋ฅธ ๊ต์ • ์‹œ๊ฐ„์•ˆ์— ํ•ฉ์„ฑํ•ด ๋ƒ„์„ ํ™•์ธํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” 177/223 fs์˜ rms ์ง€ํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์ง€๋Š” 8/16 GHz์˜ ํด๋ฝ์„ ์ถœ๋ ฅํ•œ๋‹ค. ๋‘๋ฒˆ์งธ ์‹œ์—ฐ์œผ๋กœ์จ, ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ ๋ฐœ์ง„๊ธฐ์˜ ๋†’์€ ์ „์› ๋…ธ์ด์ฆˆ ์˜์กด์„ฑ์„ ์™„ํ™”์‹œํ‚ค๋Š” ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์ด ํฌํ•จ๋œ ์ฃผํŒŒ์ˆ˜ ํ•ฉ์„ฑ๊ธฐ๊ฐ€ ์„ค๊ณ„๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Š” ๊ณ ๋ฆฌ ๋ฐœ์ง„๊ธฐ์˜ ์ „์•• ํ—ค๋“œ๋ฃธ์„ ๋ณด์กดํ•จ์œผ๋กœ์„œ ๊ณ ์ฃผํŒŒ ๋ฐœ์ง„์„ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅํ•˜๊ฒŒ ํ•œ๋‹ค. ๋‚˜์•„๊ฐ€, ์ „์› ๋…ธ์ด์ฆˆ ๊ฐ์†Œ ์„ฑ๋Šฅ์€ ๊ณต์ •, ์ „์••, ์˜จ๋„ ๋ณ€๋™์— ๋Œ€ํ•˜์—ฌ ๋ฏผ๊ฐํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š์œผ๋ฉฐ, ๋”ฐ๋ผ์„œ ์ถ”๊ฐ€์ ์ธ ๊ต์ • ํšŒ๋กœ๋ฅผ ํ•„์š”๋กœ ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š”๋‹ค. ๋งˆ์ง€๋ง‰์œผ๋กœ, ์œ„์ƒ ๋…ธ์ด์ฆˆ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ํฌ๊ด„์  ๋ถ„์„๊ณผ ํšŒ๋กœ ์ตœ์ ํ™”๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•˜์—ฌ ์ฃผํŒŒ์ˆ˜ ํ•ฉ์„ฑ๊ธฐ์˜ ์ €์žก์Œ ์ถœ๋ ฅ์„ ๋ฐฉํ•ดํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š” ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ•์„ ๊ณ ์•ˆํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค. ํ•ด๋‹น ํ”„๋กœํ† ํƒ€์ž… ์นฉ์€ 40-nm CMOS ๊ณต์ •์œผ๋กœ ๊ตฌํ˜„๋˜์—ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ „์› ๋…ธ์ด์ฆˆ๊ฐ€ ์ธ๊ฐ€๋˜์ง€ ์•Š์€ ์ƒํƒœ์—์„œ 289 fs์˜ rms ์ง€ํ„ฐ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์ง€๋Š” 8 GHz์˜ ํด๋ฝ์„ ์ถœ๋ ฅํ•œ๋‹ค. ๋˜ํ•œ, 20 mVrms์˜ ์ „์› ๋…ธ์ด์ฆˆ๊ฐ€ ์ธ๊ฐ€๋˜์—ˆ์„ ๋•Œ์— ์œ ๋„๋˜๋Š” ์ง€ํ„ฐ์˜ ์–‘์„ -23.8 dB ๋งŒํผ ์ค„์ด๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ํ™•์ธํ•˜์˜€๋‹ค.1 Introduction 1 1.1 Motivation 3 1.1.1 Clocking in High-Speed Serial Links 4 1.1.2 Multi-Phase, High-Frequency Clock Conversion 8 1.2 Dissertation Objectives 10 2 RO-Based High-Frequency Synthesis 12 2.1 Phase-Locked Loop Fundamentals 12 2.2 Toward All-Digital Regime 15 2.3 RO Design Challenges 21 2.3.1 Oscillator Phase Noise 21 2.3.2 Challenge 1: High Flicker Noise 23 2.3.3 Challenge 2: High Supply Noise Sensitivity 26 3 Filtering RO Noise 28 3.1 Introduction 28 3.2 Proposed Reference Octupler 34 3.2.1 Delay Constraint 34 3.2.2 Phase Error Calibration 38 3.2.3 Circuit Implementation 51 3.3 IL-ADPLL Implementation 55 3.4 Measurement Results 59 3.5 Summary 63 4 RO Supply Noise Compensation 69 4.1 Introduction 69 4.2 Proposed Analog Closed Loop for Supply Noise Compensation 72 4.2.1 Circuit Implementation 73 4.2.2 Frequency-Domain Analysis 76 4.2.3 Circuit Optimization 81 4.3 ADPLL Implementation 87 4.4 Measurement Results 90 4.5 Summary 98 5 Conclusions 99 A Notes on the 8REF 102 B Notes on the ACSC 105๋ฐ•
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