Noise mitigation in single-ended links

    公开(公告)号:US12101135B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-09-24

    申请号:US18243243

    申请日:2023-09-07

    IPC分类号: H04B3/56 G05F1/46 H04B3/06

    CPC分类号: H04B3/56 G05F1/46 H04B3/06

    摘要: An integrated circuit includes a first terminal for receiving a data signal, a second terminal for receiving an external reference voltage, a receiver, and a reference voltage generation circuit. The receiver is powered by a power supply voltage with respect to ground and has a first input coupled to the first terminal, a second input for receiving a shared reference voltage, and an output for providing a data input signal. The reference voltage generation circuit is coupled to the second terminal and receives the power supply voltage. The reference voltage generation circuit is operable to form the shared reference voltage by mixing noise from the power supply voltage and noise from the second terminal.

    Lookup table optimization for high speed transmit feed-forward equalization link

    公开(公告)号:US12028190B1

    公开(公告)日:2024-07-02

    申请号:US18086960

    申请日:2022-12-22

    IPC分类号: H04L25/03 H04L25/49

    摘要: A driver circuit includes a feed-forward equalization (FFE) circuit. The FFE circuit receives a plurality of pulse-amplitude modulation (PAM) symbol values to be transmitted at one of multiple PAM levels. The FFE circuit includes a first partial lookup table, one or more additional partial lookup tables, and an adder circuit. The first partial lookup table contains partial finite impulse-response (FIR) values and indexed based on a current PAM symbol value, a precursor PAM symbol value, and a postcursor PAM symbol value. The one or more additional partial lookup tables each contain partial FIR values and indexed based on a respective additional one or more of the PAM symbol values. The adder circuit adds results of lookups from the first partial lookup table and the additional partial lookup tables to produce an output value.

    NOISE MITIGATION IN SINGLE-ENDED LINKS
    3.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20230421203A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-12-28

    申请号:US18243243

    申请日:2023-09-07

    IPC分类号: H04B3/56 H04B3/06 G05F1/46

    CPC分类号: H04B3/56 H04B3/06 G05F1/46

    摘要: An integrated circuit includes a first terminal for receiving a data signal, a second terminal for receiving an external reference voltage, a receiver, and a reference voltage generation circuit. The receiver is powered by a power supply voltage with respect to ground and has a first input coupled to the first terminal, a second input for receiving a shared reference voltage, and an output for providing a data input signal. The reference voltage generation circuit is coupled to the second terminal and receives the power supply voltage. The reference voltage generation circuit is operable to form the shared reference voltage by mixing noise from the power supply voltage and noise from the second terminal.

    MULTI-LEVEL SIGNAL RECEPTION
    4.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240111618A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-04-04

    申请号:US17956542

    申请日:2022-09-29

    IPC分类号: G06F11/07

    CPC分类号: G06F11/079 G06F11/073

    摘要: A method for receiving a multi-level error signal having more than two logic levels includes oversampling the multi-level error signal to provide sampled symbols, wherein a first level of the multi-level error signal indicates no error, and second and third levels of the multi-level error signal indicate first and second error conditions, respectively. The sampled signals are de-serialized to provide sets of symbols. A start of a symbol period is determined in response to detecting that a given sample is different from a prior sample, and the prior sample indicates no error. The sets of symbols are filtered to provide corresponding output symbols based on the start.

    COMPENSATION METHODS FOR VOLTAGE AND TEMPERATURE (VT) DRIFT OF MEMORY INTERFACES

    公开(公告)号:US20230141595A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-05-11

    申请号:US17855066

    申请日:2022-06-30

    IPC分类号: G06F1/08 G11C11/4076

    摘要: A data processing system includes a data processor coupled to a memory. The data processor includes a reference clock generation circuit for providing a reference clock signal, a first delay circuit for delaying the reference clock signal by a first amount to provide a command and address signal, a second delay circuit for delaying the reference clock signal by a second amount to provide a read data signal, a calibration circuit for determining current values of the first and second amounts, and a compensation circuit for calculating drifts in the first and second amounts based on a measured temperature change, at least one voltage sensitivity coefficient, and at least one temperature sensitivity coefficient, and for updating the first and second amounts according to the drifts.

    Multi-level signal reception
    7.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US12093124B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-09-17

    申请号:US17956542

    申请日:2022-09-29

    IPC分类号: G06F11/07

    CPC分类号: G06F11/079 G06F11/073

    摘要: A method for receiving a multi-level error signal having more than two logic levels includes oversampling the multi-level error signal to provide sampled symbols, wherein a first level of the multi-level error signal indicates no error, and second and third levels of the multi-level error signal indicate first and second error conditions, respectively. The sampled signals are de-serialized to provide sets of symbols. A start of a symbol period is determined in response to detecting that a given sample is different from a prior sample, and the prior sample indicates no error. The sets of symbols are filtered to provide corresponding output symbols based on the start.

    MULTI-PHASE CLOCK GATING WITH PHASE SELECTION

    公开(公告)号:US20240223192A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-07-04

    申请号:US18092222

    申请日:2022-12-31

    IPC分类号: H03L7/07 H03L7/081

    摘要: A multi-phase clock gating circuit receives a plurality of respective phased clock signals, and a one-hot stop phase select signal indicating a first selected phase for which gating of the phased clock signals is to be started. Responsive to a clock control signal indicating the phased clock signals are to be gated, the clock signals are gated beginning at the first selected phase, in order of phase, including looping from a last phase to a first phase.

    CHANNEL ROUTING FOR SIMULTANEOUS SWITCHING OUTPUTS

    公开(公告)号:US20230420018A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-12-28

    申请号:US17849197

    申请日:2022-06-24

    摘要: A data processor is for accessing a memory having a first pseudo channel and a second pseudo channel. The data processor includes at least one memory accessing agent, a memory controller, and a data fabric. The at least one memory accessing agent generates generating memory access requests including first memory access requests that access the memory. The memory controller provides memory commands to the memory in response to the first memory access requests. The data fabric routes the first memory access requests to a first downstream port in response to a corresponding first memory request accessing the first pseudo channel, and to a second downstream port in response to the corresponding first memory request accessing the second pseudo channel. The memory controller has first and second upstream ports coupled to the first and second downstream ports of the data fabric, respectively, and a downstream port coupled to the memory.