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公开(公告)号:US20200351144A1
公开(公告)日:2020-11-05
申请号:US16930114
申请日:2020-07-15
Applicant: INPHI CORPORATION
Inventor: Arash FARHOODFAR , Jitendra SWARNKAR , Michael DUCKERING , Andre SCZAPANEK , Scott FELLER , Shaun LYTOLLIS
IPC: H04L29/08 , G06F11/20 , H04L12/427 , H04L1/22 , H04L12/24 , H04L12/40 , H04W28/06 , H04W28/04 , H04L12/26
Abstract: The present invention is directed to data communication. In certain embodiments, the present invention provides switching mechanism for choosing between redundant communication links. Data received from a first set of communication links are processed to have alignment markers removed, and first figure of merit value is determined based on the data without alignment markers. Similarly, a second figure of merit value is determined for the data received from the second set of communication links. A switch selects between the first set of communication links and the second set of communication links based on their respective figure of merit values. Alignment markers are inserted into the data transmitted through the selected set of data links. There are other embodiments as well.
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公开(公告)号:US10788638B2
公开(公告)日:2020-09-29
申请号:US16245076
申请日:2019-01-10
Applicant: INPHI CORPORATION
Inventor: Radhakrishnan L. Nagarajan , Masaki Kato
Abstract: A silicon-based edge coupler for coupling a fiber with a waveguide includes a cantilever member being partially suspended with its anchored end coupled to a silicon photonics die in a first part of a silicon substrate and a free end terminated near an edge region separating a second part of the silicon substrate from the first part. The edge coupler further includes a mechanical stopper formed at the edge region with a gap distance ahead of the free end of the cantilever member. Additionally, a V-groove is formed in the second part of the silicon substrate characterized by a top opening and a bottom plane symmetrically connected by two sloped side walls along a fixed Si-crystallography angle. The V-groove is configured to support a fiber with an end facet being pushed against the mechanical stopper and a core center being aligned with the free end of the cantilever member.
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公开(公告)号:US10749732B2
公开(公告)日:2020-08-18
申请号:US16775130
申请日:2020-01-28
Applicant: INPHI CORPORATION
Inventor: Arash Farhoodfar , Jitendra Swarnkar , Michael Duckering , Andre Sczapanek , Scott Feller , Shaun Lytollis
IPC: H04L29/08 , G06F11/20 , H04L12/427 , H04L1/22 , H04L12/26 , H04L12/40 , H04W28/06 , H04W28/04 , H04L12/24
Abstract: The present invention is directed to data communication. In certain embodiments, the present invention provides switching mechanism for choosing between redundant communication links. Data received from a first set of communication links are processed to have alignment markers removed, and first figure of merit value is determined based on the data without alignment markers. Similarly, a second figure of merit value is determined for the data received from the second set of communication links. A switch selects between the first set of communication links and the second set of communication links based on their respective figure of merit values. Alignment markers are inserted into the data transmitted through the selected set of data links. There are other embodiments as well.
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公开(公告)号:US20200228146A1
公开(公告)日:2020-07-16
申请号:US16831626
申请日:2020-03-26
Applicant: INPHI CORPORATION
Inventor: Volodymyr SHVYDUN
Abstract: The present invention is directed to data communication systems and methods thereof. According to various embodiments, the present invention provides a communication with a reconfigurable forward-error-correction (FEC) module. The FEC module processes data received from two or more communication lanes, and depending on the mode of operation, the FEC module can combine data from the two or more communication lanes and perform error correction on the combined data, or the FEC module can processes data from the two communications lanes separately and perform error correction independently for the each of the data communication lanes. There are other embodiments as well.
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公开(公告)号:US10715259B1
公开(公告)日:2020-07-14
申请号:US16256637
申请日:2019-01-24
Applicant: INPHI CORPORATION
Inventor: Mario Rafael Hueda , José L. Correa Lust , Damian Alfonso Morero
Abstract: A method and structure for compensation techniques in coherent optical receivers. The present invention provides a coherent optical receiver with an improved 8×8 adaptive MIMO (Multiple Input, Multiple Output) equalizer configured within a digital signal processor (DSP) to compensate the effects of transmitter I/Q skew in subcarrier multiplexing (SCM) schemes. The 8×8 MIMO equalizer can be configured such that each of the 8 outputs is electrically coupled to 3 of 8 inputs, wherein each of the input-output couplings is configured as a filter. The method includes compensating for impairments to the digital conversion of an optical input signal via the 8×8 MIMO equalizer following other signal processing steps, such as chromatic dispersion (CD)/polarization-mode dispersion (PMD) compensation, carrier recovery, timing synchronization, and cycle slip correction.
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公开(公告)号:US20200220563A1
公开(公告)日:2020-07-09
申请号:US16827355
申请日:2020-03-23
Applicant: INPHI CORPORATION
Inventor: Jamal RIANI , Farshid Rafiee RAD , Benjamin P. SMITH , Yu LIAO , Sudeep BHOJA
Abstract: The present invention is directed to data communication. More specifically, an embodiment of the present invention provides an error correction system. Input data signals are processed by a feedforward equalization module and a decision feedback back equalization module. Decisions generated by the decision feedback equalization module are processed by an error detection module, which determines error events associated with the decisions. The error detection module implements a reduced state trellis path. There are other embodiments as well.
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公开(公告)号:US20200183105A1
公开(公告)日:2020-06-11
申请号:US16793550
申请日:2020-02-18
Applicant: INPHI CORPORATION
Inventor: Radhakrishnan L. NAGARAJAN , Peng-Chih LI , Masaki KATO
IPC: G02B6/42 , H04B10/516 , H04B10/40
Abstract: A photonic transceiver apparatus in QSFP package. The apparatus includes a case having a base member, two partial side members, and a lid member to provide a spatial volume with an opening at a back end of the base member. Additionally, the apparatus includes a PCB, installed inside the spatial volume over the base member having a pluggable electrical connector at the back end. Further, the apparatus includes multiple optical transmitting devices in mini-transmit-optical-sub-assembly package, each being mounted on a common support structure and having a laser output port in reversed orientation toward the back end. Furthermore, the apparatus includes a silicon photonics chip, including a fiber-to-silicon attachment module, mounted on the PCB and coupled to a modulation driver module and a trans-impedance amplifier module. Moreover, the apparatus includes a pair of optical input/output ports being back connected to the fiber-to-silicon attachment module.
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公开(公告)号:US20200152574A1
公开(公告)日:2020-05-14
申请号:US16738844
申请日:2020-01-09
Applicant: INPHI CORPORATION
Inventor: Liang DING , Radhakrishnan L. NAGARAJAN
IPC: H01L23/538 , H01L25/16 , H01L23/00 , G02B6/42
Abstract: A method for forming a silicon photonics interposer having through-silicon vias (TSVs). The method includes forming vias in a front side of a silicon substrate and defining primary structures for forming optical devices in the front side. Additionally, the method includes bonding a first handle wafer to the front side and thinning down the silicon substrate from the back side and forming bumps at the back side to couple with a conductive material in the vias. Furthermore, the method includes bonding a second handle wafer to the back side and debonding the first handle wafer from the front side to form secondary structures based on the primary structures. Moreover, the method includes forming pads at the front side to couple with the bumps at the back side before completing final structures based on the secondary structures and debonding the second handle wafer from the back side.
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公开(公告)号:US10649951B2
公开(公告)日:2020-05-12
申请号:US16529473
申请日:2019-08-01
Applicant: INPHI CORPORATION
Inventor: Radhakrishnan L. Nagarajan , Chao Xu
IPC: G06F13/24 , H04B10/80 , H04B10/40 , H04B10/556 , H04B10/54 , H04B10/516 , H04B10/69 , H04B14/02 , G06F15/78 , G06F13/42 , G02B6/12 , H04L27/00 , G06F13/364 , G06F13/40 , H04L1/00 , H04L25/03 , H04L5/14 , H04L27/02 , H04L27/18 , H04L27/34
Abstract: The present invention includes an integrated system-on-chip device configured on a substrate member. The device has a data input/output interface provided on the substrate member and configured for a predefined data rate and protocol. The device has an input/output block provided on the substrate member and coupled to the data input/output interface. The input/output block comprises a SerDes block, a CDR block, a compensation block, and an equalizer block. The SerDes block is configured to convert a first data stream of N having a first predefined data rate at a first clock rate into a second data stream of M having a second predefined data rate at a second clock rate. The device has a driver module provided on the substrate member and coupled to a signal processing block, and a driver interface provided on the substrate member and coupled to the driver module and a silicon photonics device.
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公开(公告)号:US10606306B2
公开(公告)日:2020-03-31
申请号:US16263705
申请日:2019-01-31
Applicant: INPHI CORPORATION
Inventor: Tomas Alexander Dusatko
Abstract: A method and circuit are provided to reduce power consumption of high-speed clocks that are distributed across an integrated circuit (IC). Example implementations seek to reduce the amount of power dissipated in typical clock distribution networks by turning the combination of a multi-port electrical network and transmission line into a multi-resonant structure. In an implementation, the multi-port electrical network is coupled between first and second segments of the transmission line. The multi-port electrical network includes series and shunt reactive circuit elements, such as series inductive reactance and a shunt inductive susceptance, configured to produce first and second resonances that cooperate to create a bandpass response across clock distribution frequencies. This bandpass response is created by the multi-resonant structure, which is a combination of the transmission line and the multi-port electrical network. Various implementations are provided, including single-ended, differential, multi-section, multi-output, and point-to-multi-point implementations, each with an optional low-speed mode switch.
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