Download or read book Design of High-speed Optical Interconnect Transceivers written by Samuel Palermo and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Implemented in a standard 1V 90nm CMOS process, the transceiver operates at data rates between 5 to 16Gb/s. At 16Gb/s, the measure power consumption is 129mW for the VCSEL-based link and projected at 103mW for the modulator-based link, with both links occupying an area close to 0.1 mm2.