The design and experimental verification of a 75-GHz phase-locked loop (PLL) fabricated in 90-nm CMOS technology is presented. The circuit incorporates a three-quarter wavelength oscillator to achieve high-frequency operation and a novel phase-frequency detector (PFD) based on SSB mixers to suppress the reference feedthrough. The PLL demonstrates an operation range of 320 MHz and reference sidebands of less than 72 dBc while consuming 88 mW from a 1.45-V supply.

A 20-Gb/s clock and data recovery circuit incorporates injection-locking technique to achieve high-speed operation with low power dissipation. The circuit creates spectral line at the frequency of data rate and injection-locks two cascaded LC oscillators. A frequency-monitoring mechanism is employed to ensure a close matching between the VCO natural frequency and data rate. Fabricated in 90-nm CMOS technology, this circuit achieves a bit error rate of less than 10 9 in both continuous (PRBS of 2 31 1)and burst modes while consuming 175 mW from a 1.5-V supply.

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