Abstract:
Methods, systems, and apparatuses, including electrical circuitry, are described for auto-negotiation. Active cables, active backplanes, and line cards may include one or more instances of electrical circuitry and/or integrated circuits that intercept advertisements of standard auto-negotiation protocol signaling from an initiating device for establishment of communication links with a receiving device. Auto negotiation information in the intercepted signaling may be translated and encoded into signaling in accordance with the capabilities of the receiving device. Active cables and active backplanes may also include one or more connection components between instances of electrical circuitry and/or integrated circuits to provide high-speed transmission of data packets encapsulating the auto-negotiation information in a format that differs from the standard auto-negotiation protocol.
Abstract:
Methods and apparatuses are described for timing skew mitigation in time-interleaved ADCs (TI-ADCs) that may be performed for any receive signal without any special signals during blind initialization, which may be followed by background calibration. The same gain/skew calibration metrics may be applied to baud sampled and oversampled systems, including wideband receivers and regardless of any modulation, by applying a timing or frequency offset to non-stationary sampled signals during initial training. Skew mitigation is low latency, low power, low area, noise tolerant and scalable. Digital estimation may be implemented with accumulators and multipliers while analog calibration may be implemented with adjustable delays. DC and gain offsets may be calibrated before skew calibration. The slope of the correlation function between adjacent samples may be used to move a timing skew estimate stochastically at a low adaptive rate until the skew algorithm converges.