From: D. C. Sessions ([email protected])
Date: Tue Dec 21 1999 - 12:44:21 PST
Eric Goodill wrote:
>
> "D. C. Sessions" wrote:
> >
> > Keep in mind that common-mode potential almost^H^H^H^H^H^H always
> > affects input delay, so those reflections WILL show up as receiver
> > jitter. If your application is completely insensitive to jitter,
> > well and good. Offhand I can't think of any like that.
>
> D.C.,
>
> Could you please elaborate slightly about how common-mode affects
> differential timing on the inputs?
It's an operating-point thing. The transconductance of the input
devices isn't constant across the common-mode range. In addition,
thanks to LVDS' absurdly wide common-mode range, the PMOS input
stage goes into cutoff at the high end (2.4v against a 3.0v supply
just doesn't work) so there has to be an NMOS stage and some kind
of crossover mechanism to use the NMOS devices at high input voltage
and the PMOS one at low voltage. Not only do both the NMOS and
the PMOS vary in performance according to input common-mode point,
but they can't be matched perfectly and so the crossover introduces
even more variation.
Since the input delay varies with common-mode operating point, any
common-mode components will show up as receiver jitter.
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