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公开(公告)号:US20190212496A1
公开(公告)日:2019-07-11
申请号:US16352636
申请日:2019-03-13
Applicant: INPHI CORPORATION
Inventor: Samira KARIMELAHI , Masaki KATO
CPC classification number: G02B6/29391 , G02B6/2856 , G02B6/29344 , G02B6/29352 , H04B10/25 , H04L25/03885
Abstract: The present disclosure provides an optical equalizer for photonics system in an electric-optical communication network. The optical equalizer includes an input port and an output port. Additionally, the optical equalizer includes a filter having a number of stages coupled to each other in a multi-stage series with an output terminal of any stage being coupled to an input terminal of an adjacent next stage while the input terminal of a first stage of the multi-stage series being coupled from the input port. Each stage includes a tap terminal configured to pass an optical power factored by a coefficient of multiplication from the corresponding input terminal of the stage to a tap-output path characterized by a corresponding phase delay. Furthermore, the optical equalizer includes a combiner configured to sum up the optical powers respectively from the number of tap-output paths of the multi-stage series to the output port.
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公开(公告)号:US20190207568A1
公开(公告)日:2019-07-04
申请号:US16298880
申请日:2019-03-11
Applicant: INPHI CORPORATION
Inventor: Rahul SHRINGARPURE , Tom Peter Edward BROEKAERT , Gaurav MAHAJAN
CPC classification number: H03F3/082 , H03F1/0205 , H03F3/087 , H03F3/45179 , H03F3/45475 , H03F2200/555 , H04B10/616 , H04B10/693
Abstract: A transimpedance amplifier (TIA) device. The device includes a photodiode coupled to a differential TIA with a first and second TIA, which is followed by a Level Shifting/Differential Amplifier (LS/DA). The photodiode is coupled between a first and a second input terminal of the first and second TIAs, respectively. The LS/DA can be coupled to a first and second output terminal of the first and second TIAs, respectively. The TIA device includes a semiconductor substrate comprising a plurality of CMOS cells, which can be configured using 28 nm process technology to the first and second TIAs. Each of the CMOS cells can include a deep n-type well region. The second TIA can be configured using a plurality CMOS cells such that the second input terminal is operable at any positive voltage level with respect to an applied voltage to a deep n-well for each of the plurality of second CMOS cells.
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公开(公告)号:US10333627B2
公开(公告)日:2019-06-25
申请号:US15633353
申请日:2017-06-26
Applicant: INPHI CORPORATION
Inventor: Todd Rope , Sung Choi , James Stewart , Radhakrishnan L. Nagarajan , Paul Yu , Ilya Lyubomirsky
Abstract: The present invention is directed to a communication signal tracking system comprising an optical receiver including one or more delay line interferometers (DLIs) configured to demultiplex incoming optical signals and a transimpedance amplifier configured to convert the incoming optical signals to incoming electrical signals. The communication signal tracking system further includes a control module configured to calculate a bit-error-rate (BER) of the incoming electrical signals before forward-error correction decoding, and use the BER as a parameter for optimizing settings of the one or more DLIs in one or more iterations in a control loop and generating a back-channel data.
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公开(公告)号:US10333622B2
公开(公告)日:2019-06-25
申请号:US15917382
申请日:2018-03-09
Applicant: INPHI CORPORATION
Inventor: Sudeep Bhoja , Chao Xu , Hari Shankar
IPC: H04L1/00 , H04B10/27 , H04B10/40 , H04B10/50 , H04B10/69 , H04L7/033 , H04B10/516 , H04B10/564 , H04B10/2507 , H04B10/2575
Abstract: The present invention is directed to data communication system and methods. More specifically, various embodiments of the present invention provide a communication interface that is configured to transfer data at high bandwidth using PAM format(s) over optical communication networks. A feedback mechanism is provided for adjusting the transmission power levels. There are other embodiments as well.
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公开(公告)号:US10326550B1
公开(公告)日:2019-06-18
申请号:US15691023
申请日:2017-08-30
Applicant: INPHI CORPORATION
Inventor: Jamal Riani , Benjamin Smith , Volodymyr Shvydun , Sudeep Bhoja
Abstract: The present invention is directed to data communication systems and techniques thereof. More specifically, embodiments of the present invention provide an FEC encoder that generates parity symbols that are embedded into FEC blocks. An FEC decoder determines whether to perform error correction based on the parity symbols. When performing error correction, the decoder selects a worst symbol from a segment of symbols, and the worst symbol is corrected. There are other embodiments as well.
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公开(公告)号:US20190165806A1
公开(公告)日:2019-05-30
申请号:US16262148
申请日:2019-01-30
Applicant: INPHI CORPORATION
Inventor: Andre SZCZEPANEK , Arash FARHOODFAR , Sudeep BHOJA , Sean BATTY , Shaun LYTOLLIS
Abstract: Embodiments relate to the emulation of the effect of Forward Error Correction (FEC) codes, e.g., GF10 Reed Solomon (RS) FEC codes, on the bit error ratio (BER) of received Pseudo-Random Binary Sequences (PRBS) patterns. In particular, embodiments group errors into RS-FEC symbols and codewords in order to determine if the errors are correctable. By emulating the error correction capabilities of FEC codes in order to determine which errors are correctable by the code, embodiments afford a more accurate representation of the post-FEC BER of RS FEC codes from links carrying PRBS patterns. This FEC code emulation provides error correction statistics, for stand-alone use or for error correction in connection with Bit Error Rate Testers (BERTs).
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公开(公告)号:US10305589B2
公开(公告)日:2019-05-28
申请号:US15838079
申请日:2017-12-11
Applicant: INPHI CORPORATION
Inventor: Shih Cheng Wang , Seyedmohammadreza Motaghiannezam , Matthew C. Bashaw
IPC: H04L5/00 , H04B10/079 , H04L27/01 , H04L25/03 , H04B10/07 , H04B10/2507 , H04B10/61 , H04L7/00
Abstract: A receiver applies a calibration method to compensate for skew between input channels. The receiver skew is estimated by observing the coefficients of an adaptive equalizer which adjusts the coefficients based on time-varying properties of the multi-channel input signal. The receiver skew is compensated by programming the phase of the sampling clocks for the different channels. Furthermore, during real-time operation of the receiver, channel diagnostics is performed to automatically estimate differential group delay and/or other channel characteristics based on the equalizer coefficients using a frequency averaging or polarization averaging approach. Framer information can furthermore be utilized to estimate differential group delay that is an integer multiple of the symbol rate. Additionally, a DSP reset may be performed when substantial signal degradation is detected based on the channel diagnostics information.
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公开(公告)号:US10284394B1
公开(公告)日:2019-05-07
申请号:US16101286
申请日:2018-08-10
Applicant: INPHI CORPORATION
Inventor: Simon Forey , Rajasekhar Nagulapalli , Parmanand Mishra
Abstract: The present invention is directed to communication systems and electrical circuits. According to an embodiment, an input termination circuit includes a first attenuation resistor and a second attenuation resistor. The resistance values of these two resistors are adjusted in opposite directions to maintain a stable output impedance. There are other embodiments as well.
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公开(公告)号:US10262983B2
公开(公告)日:2019-04-16
申请号:US15979046
申请日:2018-05-14
Applicant: INPHI CORPORATION
Inventor: Jie Lin , Masaki Kato
IPC: G02B6/12 , H01L27/02 , G02B6/42 , H01L31/02 , H01L31/0224 , H01L27/144 , H01L31/0232 , H01L31/028 , H01L31/103 , H01L31/18
Abstract: An integrated photo detector with enhanced electrostatic discharge damage (ESD) protection. The integrated photo detector includes a first photodiode formed in the SOI substrate and associated with a first p-electrode and a first n-electrode. Additionally, the integrated photo detector includes a second photodiode formed in the SOI substrate associated with a second p-electrode and a second n-electrode forming a capacitance no larger than a few femto Faradays. Moreover, the integrated photo detector includes a first electrode and a second electrode disposed respectively on the SOI substrate. The first/second electrode is respectively connected to the first p/n-electrode via a first/second metallic layer patterned with a reduced width from the first/second electrode to the first p/n-electrode and connected to the second p/n-electrode via a first/second metallic wire to make a parallel coupling between the first photodiode and the second photodiode with an ESD threshold of about 100V.
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公开(公告)号:US20190109646A1
公开(公告)日:2019-04-11
申请号:US16204909
申请日:2018-11-29
Applicant: INPHI CORPORATION
Inventor: Oscar Ernesto AGAZZI , Diego Ernesto CRIVELLI , Paul VOOIS , Ramiro Rogelio LOPEZ , Jorge Manuel FINOCHIETTO , Norman L. SWENSON , Mario Rafael HUEDA , Hugo Santiago CARRER , Vadim GUTNIK , Adrián Ulises MORALES , Martin Ignacio DEL BARCO , Martin Carlos ASINARI , Federico Nicolas PAREDES , Alfredo Javier TADDEI , Mauro Marcelo BRUNI , Damian Alfonso MORERO , Facundo Abel Alcides RAMOS , María Laura FERSTER , Elvio Adrian SERRANO , Pablo Gustavo QUIROGA , Roman Antonio ARENAS , Matias German SCHNIDRIG , Alejandro Javier SCHWOYKOSKI
IPC: H04B10/516 , H04B10/40 , H04L7/00 , H04B10/61
Abstract: A coherent receiver comprises an ingress signal path having an ingress line-side interface, and an ingress host-side interface. The ingress signal path is configured to receive an analog signal vector at the ingress line-side interface, to demodulate the analog signal vector, and to output a digital data signal Fat the ingress host-side interface. The coherent receiver also comprises clock and timing circuitry configured to receive a single reference clock signal and to provide a plurality of modified ingress path clock signals to different components of the ingress signal path, the plurality of modified ingress path clock signals derived from the single reference clock signal and the plurality of modified ingress path clock signals having different clock rates. The receiver, transmitter, or transceiver can operate in a plurality of programmable operating modes to accommodate different modulation/de-modulation schemes, error correction code schemes, framing/mapping protocols, or other programmable features.
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