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Lucent Technologies Inc.
Advance Data Sheet
March 2000
DNC5X3125
Gigabit Ethernet Transceiver Macrocell
Functional Description
The DNC5X3125 transceiver provides for data trans-
mission over fiber or coaxial media at 1.0 Gbits/s to
1.25 Gbits/s. The block diagram of the macrocell used
as a quad-channel transceiver is shown in Figure 1 and
the single-channel macrocell design is shown in
Figure 2. The input/output designations are given in
Table 3.
Transmitter Section
The typical transmit and receive, high-speed I/O inter-
facing for single-channel applications is shown in
Figures 8 and 9.
The transmitter brings in 8b/10b encoded bits in 10-bit
parallel form for up to 1.25 Gbits/s transmission and
converts the data to serial format. The serial nonreturn
to zero (NRZ) bits are then shifted out of the device at a
maximum rate of 1.25 Gbits/s. Internally, the device
uses two parallel shift registers that operate at half rate
(i.e., a maximum of 625 MHz) for reduced power con-
sumption. The two shift registers drive the PECL output
buffer in an interleaved manner to construct the
1.25 Gbit/s output data stream.
The transmit shift register and other circuits are driven
with clocks generated from a 625 MHz internal clock.
This internal clock is sourced from a voltage controlled
oscillator (VCO) that is locked to the external reference
of 100 MHz—125 MHz. The internal transmit phase-
lock loop multiplies the frequency of the input reference
clock by a factor of 5, and controls the transmit jitter
bandwidth with appropriate design of the jitter transfer
function. The transmit phase-lock loop generates multi-
ple clock phases that are all used by each of the four
receiver circuits. The clock phases are derived from the
transmit VCO.
Receiver Section
The receiver circuit extracts clock from and retimes the
serial input data. The data are input to the receiver on
differential PECL buffers. External termination resistors
are supplied by the user in accordance with ANSI stan-
dard, X3T11. The serial differential inputs, HDINP and
HDINN, are ac-coupled to the device and internally
biased to the PECL input common-mode range center.
The receiver data-retiming circuit uses a digital timing
recovery loop that compares the phase of the input
data to multiple phases of the on-device VCO in the
transmit section. One of the phases is chosen to retime
the receive data. A digital low-pass filter is used in the
timing recovery loop to reject jitter from the data input.
A novel phase interpolation circuit permits the retiming
clock’s phase to be stepped with fine resolution for pre-
cise alignment of the sampling clock within the data
eye. Use of this digital data-locking scheme for each
receiver advantageously avoids the use of multiple
analog phase-lock loops on-device that can potentially
injection lock to one another. Additionally, the digital
data-locking loop maintains precise loop dynamics,
hence the jitter transfer function is process and temper-
ature independent.
Lock to Reference
The receive circuit has two modes of operation, lock to
reference, and lock to data with retiming. When no data
or invalid data is present on the HDINP and HDINN
input nodes, the user can program the device to ignore
the input data by setting LCKREFN equal to logic 0. In
this mode, neither the PECL input buffer nor the RX
parallel data bus toggles. In normal operations, LCK-
REFN is a logic 1 and the receiver attempts to lock to
the incoming data. If the input data is invalid or outside
the nominal ± frequency range, the receive digital PLL
will simply ramp the phase of the output clock until it
locks to data.
Table 1. Receiver Circuit Operating Modes*
* REFCLK requirements are given in Table 4.
Mode
Lock to Reference
Lock to Receive Data
Continually attempts to lock to data.
Not applicable.
LCKREFN = 1 (normal operation) Not applicable
LCKREFN = 0
Lock to clock, output data does not
toggle. Disable PECL input buffer.