This paper presents the design and simulation of an LVDS transceiver intended to be used in serial AER links. Traditional implementations of LVDS serial interfaces require a continuous data flow between the transmitter and the receiver to keep the synchronization. However, the serial AER-LVDS interface proposed in [2] operates in a burst mode, having long times of silence without data transmission. This can be used to reduce the power consumption by switching off the LVDS circuitry during the pauses. Moreover, a fast recovery time after pauses must be achieved to not slow down the interface operation. The transceiver was designed in a 90 nm technology. Extensive simulations have been performed demonstrating a 1 Gbps data rate operation for all corners in post-layout simulations. Driver and receiver take up an area of 100x215 m2 and 100x140 m2 respectively.

This work was supported by EU grant 216777 (NABAB), Spanish grant TEC2006-11730-C03-01 (SAMANTA II) and the local administration from Andalucía grant P06-TIC-01417 (Brain System). CZR was supported by a FPU grant from the Spanish Ministry of Education.

Comunicación presentada al: "DCIS'09" celebrado en Zaragoza y organizado por la Universidad de Zaragoza (Unizar) del 18 al 20 de Noviembre del 2009.

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