Abstract
A lower power 25Gb/s 16:1 multiplexer using 65nm CMOS technology for 400Gb/s Ethernet (400GbE) physical layer (PHY) interface was presented. CMOS+CML mixed logic is adopted to achieve hierarchical architecture, avoiding the high clock requirement of one-step structure and improving the transmission speed. In order to reduce power while achieving high data rate, multiplexing structure is also optimized by utilizing multi-frequency multi-phase technology which not only ensures the requirement of the phase stabilization, but also leaves out some flip-flops. For CMOS-CML conversion circuit, transmission gate and cross-coupled CMOS inverter are used to match the delay of CMOS inverter, suppressing the effect of common-mode noise. Simulation results show that the multiplexer works correctly and jitter of output signal is less than 0.1UI. When voltage is 1.2V, the total power is 32.7mW at 25Gb/s.