IEICE Transactions on Electronics
Online ISSN : 1745-1353
Print ISSN : 0916-8524
Special Section on Analog Circuits and Related SoC Integration Technologies
1 Gb/s, 50 µm × 50 µm Pads on Board Wireless Connector Based on Track-and-Charge Scheme Allowing Contacted Signaling
Katsuyuki IKEUCHIHideki KUSAMITSUMutsuo DAITOGil-Su KIMMakoto TAKAMIYATakayasu SAKURAI
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2011 Volume E94.C Issue 6 Pages 992-998

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A capacitive coupling wireless connector circuit is implemented with 50µm × 50µm pads, which is a 25X reduction of pad size compared with previous wireless connectors by allowing contacting and non-contacting modes. The proposed track and charge scheme allows both contacting and non-contacting communication through PCB capacitive pads. By making the precharge level of the input VDD or VSS, instead of 1/2VDD, the time necessary to precharge is reduced. The proposed digitally tunable comparator does not require analog voltages, reduces the power to less than 1/20 at lower frequencies compared to previous capacitive coupling receivers. A test chip successfully transmitted and received 1Gb/s, 27-1PRBS signal at 1mW while increasing design freedom of the wireless connectors.

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