A 16-Gb/s edge-based sub-baud-rate digital clock and data recovery (CDR) circuit is presented in this thesis. By using a passive high-pass filter as a differentiator, only the complementary clocks are required for the quarter-rate implementation, which saves the power. To improve the jitter tolerance, the intrinsic delay of the high-pass filter is compensated by using compensation delay cells. The proposed sub-baud-rate CDR circuit is fabricated in 40-nm CMOS technology. Its power is 23.2mW for a supply of 1.2V at the data rate of 16 Gb/s. The calculated energy efficiency of this CDR circuit is 1.45 pJ/b.