摘要:
A pre-driver circuit includes a first stage to generate a first pre-driver signal and a second stage to generate a second pre-driver signal. The first and second stages are to generate the first and second pre-driver signals to cross at a point which reduces rise-and-fall mismatch in differential signal outputs from a current-mode driver.
摘要:
An apparatus and method to improve bandwidth and reduce phase error in a tracking receiver is presented. According to one embodiment, an apparatus is presented comprising a phase comparator to generate indications based on a phase of a local clock signal and transitions in a stream of received data, an electoral loop filter to generate a phase shift signal based on the indications received from the phase comparator in a time interval, and a local clock controller to adjust the local clock signal based on the signal asserted from the electoral loop filter. The phase shift signal is either a phase increment signal or a phase decrement signal that is issued according to the majority of either increment indications or decrement indications received during the time interval.
摘要:
A system and method are disclosed in which flex cables are affixed to PCBs, for providing high-speed signaling paths between ICs disposed upon the PCBs. The flex cables are fixably attached to the PCBs so as to substantially mimic their structural orientation. Where the configuration includes more than one PCB, the flex cables include multiple portions which are temporarily separable from one another and from the die, using flex-to-flex and flex-to-package connectors, allowing field maintenance of the configuration. By routing the high-speed signals between ICs onto the flex cable, single-layer PCBs can be used for non-critical and power delivery signals, at substantial cost savings. By disposing the flex cables onto the PCB rather than allowing the cables to float freely, the configuration is thermally managed as if the signals were on the PCB and cable routing problems are avoided.
摘要:
A loopback test to test a communication link for a layered interface where in a master agent programs the electrical parameters for the slave agent, such as, the offset, timing, and current compensation with a loopback control register. The slave agent's transmitter and receiver are independently controlled and the master agent may use a slave-echoed data test pattern to detect errors and subsequently sets the appropriate status bits in a loop back status register
摘要:
A method and apparatus for advancing initialization messages in a lock-step manner when initializing an interface is presented. In one embodiment, a lane receiver may transition to a receiver ready attribute when a given number of current training sequence messages is correctly received. When the receiver ready attributes of all the lanes are set, a local acknowledgement attribute may be set. Similarly, a lane receiver may transition to a remote acknowledgement attribute when a given number of current training sequence messages with acknowledgement field set is correctly received. When both the local acknowledgement attribute and the remote acknowledgement attribute are set, the port may advance to the next training sequence messages.
摘要:
Embodiments of the invention provide an algorithm for dividing a link into one or more reduced-width links. For one embodiment of the invention, a multiplexing scheme is employed to effect a bit transmission order required by a particular cyclic redundancy check. The multiplexed output bits are then swizzled on-chip to reduce on-board routing congestion.
摘要:
A method for setting multiple chip parameters using one IC terminal is described. The chip comprises a first circuit coupled to the pin for setting a first parameter. A second circuit coupled to the pin sets a second parameter. In addition, a third circuit coupled to the pin sets a third parameter of the chip.
摘要:
A low gain phase-locked loop circuit comprising a phase detector, a plurality of voltage controlled oscillators, wherein each voltage controlled oscillator is selectable to provide an output clock signal based at least in part on information generated by the phase detector; and a multiplexer to output a signal generated by one of the voltage controlled oscillators as the output clock signal based on a multi-bit selection control signal.
摘要:
In an electronic system having logic agents that communicate with each other through one or more signal lines, a method for testing high speed digital signaling on the signal lines is disclosed. The method involves sensing a first crosstalk signal induced by a first digital signal. The first digital signal is driven by a first logic agent into a signal line to communicate with a second agent. The second agent is coupled to receive the first digital signal from the signal line. A logic waveform that represents the digital signal is recorded and/or displayed, based upon the crosstalk signal. The technique may also be used for testing simultaneous bidirectional signaling on the same signal line.