High performance phase locked loop
    91.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11606186B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-03-14

    申请号:US17684273

    申请日:2022-03-01

    申请人: Kandou Labs, S.A.

    发明人: Armin Tajalli

    摘要: Methods and systems are described for receiving N phases of a local clock signal and M phases of a reference signal, wherein M is an integer greater than or equal to 1 and N is an integer greater than or equal to 2, generating a plurality of partial phase error signals, each partial phase error signal formed at least in part by comparing (i) a respective phase of the M phases of the reference signal to (ii) a respective phase of the N phases of the local clock signal, and generating a composite phase error signal by summing the plurality of partial phase error signals, and responsively adjusting a fixed phase of a local oscillator using the composite phase error signal.

    DYNAMIC VOLTAGE SCALING IN HIERARCHICAL MULTI-TIER REGULATOR SUPPLY

    公开(公告)号:US20230010756A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-01-12

    申请号:US17813533

    申请日:2022-07-19

    申请人: Kandou Labs, S.A.

    发明人: Armin Tajalli

    摘要: Obtaining a periodic test signal, sampling the periodic test signal using a sampling element according to a sampling clock to generate a sampled periodic output, the sampling element operating according to a supply voltage provided by a voltage regulator, the voltage regulator providing the supply voltage according to a supply voltage control signal, comparing the sampled periodic output to the sampling clock to generate a clock-to-Q measurement indicative of a delay value associated with the generation of the sampled periodic output in response to the sampling clock, generating the supply voltage control signal based at least in part on an average of the clock-to-Q measurement, and providing the supply voltage to a data sampling element connected to the voltage regulator, the data sampling element being a replica of the sampling element, the data sampling element sampling a stream of input data according to the sampling clock.

    VARIABLE GAIN AMPLIFIER AND SAMPLER OFFSET CALIBRATION WITHOUT CLOCK RECOVERY

    公开(公告)号:US20220191073A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-06-16

    申请号:US17684268

    申请日:2022-03-01

    申请人: Kandou Labs, S.A.

    发明人: Ali Hormati

    摘要: Methods and systems are described for generating a time-varying information signal at an output of a variable gain amplifier (VGA), sampling, using a sampler having a vertical decision threshold associated with a target signal amplitude, the time-varying information signal asynchronously to generate a sequence of decisions from varying sampling instants in sequential signaling intervals, the sequence of decisions comprising (i) positive decisions indicating the time-varying information signal is above the target signal amplitude and (ii) negative decisions indicating the time-varying information signal is below the target signal amplitude, accumulating a ratio of positive decisions to negative decisions, and generating a gain feedback control signal to adjust a gain setting of the VGA responsive to a mismatch of the accumulated ratio with respect to a target ratio.

    Dynamic voltage scaling in hierarchical multi-tier regulator supply

    公开(公告)号:US10983587B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-04-20

    申请号:US16218386

    申请日:2018-12-12

    申请人: Kandou Labs, S.A.

    发明人: Armin Tajalli

    摘要: Obtaining a periodic test signal, sampling the periodic test signal using a sampling element according to a sampling clock to generate a sampled periodic output, the sampling element operating according to a supply voltage provided by a voltage regulator, the voltage regulator providing the supply voltage according to a supply voltage control signal, comparing the sampled periodic output to the sampling clock to generate a clock-to-Q measurement indicative of a delay value associated with the generation of the sampled periodic output in response to the sampling clock, generating the supply voltage control signal based at least in part on an average of the clock-to-Q measurement, and providing the supply voltage to a data sampling element connected to the voltage regulator, the data sampling element being a replica of the sampling element, the data sampling element sampling a stream of input data according to the sampling clock.

    High speed communications system
    99.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10819541B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-10-27

    申请号:US16836551

    申请日:2020-03-31

    申请人: Kandou Labs SA

    IPC分类号: H04L25/03 H04L25/49 H04L1/00

    摘要: Transmission of baseband and carrier-modulated vector codewords, using a plurality of encoders, each encoder configured to receive information bits and to generate a set of baseband-encoded symbols representing a vector codeword; one or more modulation circuits, each modulation circuit configured to operate on a corresponding set of baseband-encoded symbols, and using a respective unique carrier frequency, to generate a set of carrier-modulated encoded symbols; and, a summation circuit configured to generate a set of wire-specific outputs, each wire-specific output representing a sum of respective symbols of the carrier-modulated encoded symbols and at least one set of baseband-encoded symbols.

    Methods and systems for providing multi-stage distributed decision feedback equalization

    公开(公告)号:US10812298B2

    公开(公告)日:2020-10-20

    申请号:US16444951

    申请日:2019-06-18

    申请人: Kandou Labs, S.A.

    发明人: Armin Tajalli

    IPC分类号: H03H7/40 H04L25/03 H04L25/06

    摘要: Pre-charging two or more sets of nodes to set a differential output of a multi-input summation latch connected to the two or more sets of nodes in a pre-charged state, the two or more sets of nodes comprising a set of data signal nodes and a set of DFE correction nodes, in response to a sampling clock, generating a differential data voltage and an aggregate differential DFE correction signal, and generating a data decision by driving the differential output of the multi-input summation latch into one of two possible output states according to a summation of the differential data voltage signal and the aggregate differential DFE correction signal and subsequently holding the data decision by holding the differential output of the multi-input summation latch in a latched state for a duration determined by the sampling clock.