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An 8-Bit 800 MS/s Loop-Unrolled SAR ADC With Common-Mode Adaptive Background Offset Calibration in 28 nm FDSOI

Yusuf Leblebici, Ayça Akkaya, Firat Çelik

This paper presents a low-power single-channel 8-bit loop-unrolled (LU) successive approximation register (SAR) analog-to-digital-converter (ADC) with a novel common-mode adaptive background comparator offset calibration scheme. LU-SAR ADCs use multiple co ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2021

A 32-Gb/s PAM-4 SST Transmitter With Four-Tap FFE Using High-Impedance Driver in 28-nm FDSOI

Yusuf Leblebici, Ayça Akkaya, Firat Çelik

With increasing modulation order, a larger number of parallel source-series-terminated (SST) segments are required to implement precise feedforward equalization (FFE) tap-weight control in SST transmitters (TX). Due to the data routing complexity of the se ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2021

A 32 Gb/s PAM-16 TX and ADC-Based RX AFE with 2-tap embedded analog FFE in 28 nm FDSOI

Yusuf Leblebici, Ayça Akkaya, Firat Çelik

This paper presents a 32 Gb/s 16-level pulse amplitude modulation (PAM-16) source-series-terminated transmitter (TX) and a receiver (RX) analog front-end (AFE) in 28 nm FDSOI. The 8-way time-interleaved successive-approximation register (SAR) analog-to-dig ...

2021

Energy-Efficient Design Techniques for High-Speed Wireline Serial Links

Firat Çelik

The exponential growth in computing power and multimedia services has caused a tremendous increase in data traffic in recent years. This increase in data traffic brings a strong demand for data bandwidth of electrical input/output (I/O) links and pushes th ...

EPFL2021

A Low-Power 9-Bit 222 MS/s Asynchronous SAR ADC in 65 nm CMOS

Yusuf Leblebici, Ayça Akkaya, Firat Çelik

This paper presents a 9-bit 222 MS/s low-power asynchronous single-bit/cycle successive approximation register (SAR) ADC. The SAR ADC combines techniques such as asynchronous clocking, binary-weighted custom-designed capacitive DAC with small unit capacito ...

IEEE2020

JESD204B Compliant 12.5 Gb/s LVDS and SST Transmitters in 28 nm FD-SOI CMOS

Yusuf Leblebici, Seyed Armin Tajalli, Andreas Peter Burg, Ayça Akkaya, Firat Çelik

JESD204B compliant low-voltage differential signaling (LVDS), and source-series-terminated (SST) transmitters in 28 nm FD-SOI CMOS technology are presented with 1.1 pJ/bit and 1.7 pJ/bit at 12.5 Gb/s, respectively. An external 6.25 GHz single-ended clock, ...

IEEE2019

ISI Sensitivity of PAM Signaling for Very High-Speed Short-Reach Copper Links

Yusuf Leblebici, Seyed Armin Tajalli, Ayça Akkaya, Firat Çelik

This paper presents a comparative study, analyzing the potentials of pulse amplitude modulation (PAM) for implementing next generation high-speed copper wireline links. This comparative study analyzes the sensitivities of PAM2, PAM4 and PAM8 to inter-symbo ...

IEEE2019

Analog Neural Networks with Deep-submicron Nonlinear Synapses

Pascal Frossard, Babak Falsafi, Ahmet Caner Yüzügüler, Mario Paulo Drumond Lages De Oliveira, Firat Çelik

Deep neural network (DNN) inference tasks are computationally expensive. Digital DNN accelerators offer better density and energy efficiency than general-purpose processors but still not sufficient to be deployable on resource-constrained settings.Analog c ...

2019

A 10b SAR ADC with Widely Scalable Sampling Rate and AGC Amplifier Front-End

Yusuf Leblebici, Seyed Armin Tajalli, Ayça Akkaya, Firat Çelik

This paper presents a low power successive approximation register (SAR) ADC and its front-end automatic gain control (AGC) amplifier designed in 65nm CMOS technology. Digitally controlled variable gain amplifier (VGA) in AGC loop is used to maximize the dy ...

IEEE2018