Improvement of jitter transfer characteristics of a 9.95328 Gb/s data recovery DLL using saw filter

This paper presents a design of a high-speed data recovery circuit for non return zero (NRZ) data transmission using delay-locked loop (DLL) with SAW filter. The jitter generation of the circuit is decreased by adjusting the loop gain in DLL whereas surface acoustic wave (SAW) filter with low centered frequency (fc) improves the jitter transfer function of DLL. It is seen that the circuit using SAW filter of fc = 1.24416 GHz and Q = 1000 provides the cut off frequency of about 600 kHz which is ∼10 times lower than that of conventional DLL circuit.