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公开(公告)号:US20240012772A1
公开(公告)日:2024-01-11
申请号:US18347236
申请日:2023-07-05
申请人: Intel Corporation
发明人: Robert J. Safranek , Robert G. Blankenship , Venkatraman Iyer , Jeff Willey , Robert Beers , Darren S. Jue , Arvind A. Kumar , Debendra Das Sharma , Jeffrey C. Swanson , Bahaa Fahim , Vedaraman Geetha , Aaron T. Spink , Fulvio Spagna , Rahul R. Shah , Sitaraman V. Iyer , William Harry Nale , Abhishek Das , Simon P. Johnson , Yuvraj S. Dhillon , Yen-Cheng Liu , Raj K. Ramanujan , Robert A. Maddox , Herbert H. Hum , Ashish Gupta
IPC分类号: G06F13/22 , H04L49/15 , G06F12/0813 , G06F12/0815 , G06F12/0831 , G06F13/42 , G06F8/71 , G06F8/77 , G06F9/30 , G06F12/0806 , G06F9/46 , G06F13/40 , G06F9/445 , G06F1/3287 , G06F11/10 , H04L9/06 , G06F12/0808
CPC分类号: G06F13/22 , H04L49/15 , G06F12/0813 , G06F12/0815 , G06F12/0831 , G06F13/4286 , G06F8/71 , G06F8/77 , G06F9/30145 , G06F13/4221 , G06F12/0806 , G06F12/0833 , G06F9/466 , G06F13/4022 , G06F9/44505 , G06F13/4282 , G06F1/3287 , G06F13/4068 , G06F11/1004 , G06F13/4291 , H04L9/0662 , G06F12/0808 , H04L45/74
摘要: A physical layer (PHY) is coupled to a serial, differential link that is to include a number of lanes. The PHY includes a transmitter and a receiver to be coupled to each lane of the number of lanes. The transmitter coupled to each lane is configured to embed a clock with data to be transmitted over the lane, and the PHY periodically issues a blocking link state (BLS) request to cause an agent to enter a BLS to hold off link layer flit transmission for a duration. The PHY utilizes the serial, differential link during the duration for a PHY associated task selected from a group including an in-band reset, an entry into low power state, and an entry into partial width state.
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公开(公告)号:US20200244397A1
公开(公告)日:2020-07-30
申请号:US15761409
申请日:2015-09-26
申请人: Intel Corporation
发明人: Venkatraman Iyer , Mahesh Wagh , Joon Teik HOR
IPC分类号: H04L1/00
摘要: Data of different types are received on a plurality of data lanes of a physical link. Particular data is received on at least a portion of the plurality of data lanes, and a stream signal, corresponding to the particular data, is received on another of the lanes of the physical link, where the particular data is of a particular type different from other data previously sent on the plurality of data lanes. The stream signal includes a code component indicating that the particular data is of the particular type and a parity component for use in identifying whether a bit error is present in the stream signal.
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公开(公告)号:US10461805B2
公开(公告)日:2019-10-29
申请号:US15761408
申请日:2015-09-26
申请人: Intel Corporation
发明人: Venkatraman Iyer , Lip Khoon Teh , Mahesh Wagh , Zuoguo Wu , Azydee Hamid , Gerald S. Pasdast
摘要: One or more link training signals are received, including instances of a link training pattern, on a plurality of lanes of a physical link that includes at least one valid lane and a plurality of data lanes. The plurality of lanes are trained together using the link training signals to synchronize sampling of the valid lane with sampling of the plurality of data lanes. An active link state is entered and a valid signal received on the valid lane during the active link state. The valid signal includes a signal held at a value for a defined first duration and indicates that data is to be received on the plurality of data lanes in a second defined duration subsequent to the first duration. The data is to be received, during the active link state, on the plurality of data lanes during the second defined duration.
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公开(公告)号:US20190310959A1
公开(公告)日:2019-10-10
申请号:US16446996
申请日:2019-06-20
申请人: INTEL CORPORATION
发明人: Venkatraman Iyer , William R. Halleck , Rahul R. Shah , Eric Lee
摘要: Systems, methods, and apparatuses including a Physical layer (PHY) block coupled to a Media Access Control layer (MAC) block via a PHY/MAC interface. Each of the PHY and MAC blocks include a plurality of Physical Interface for PCI Express (PIPE) registers. The PHY/MAC interface includes a low pin count PIPE interface comprising a small set of wires coupled between the PHY block and the MAC block. The MAC block is configured to multiplex command, address, and data over the low pin count PIPE interface to access the plurality of PHY PIPE registers, and the PHY block is configured to multiplex command, address, and data over the low pin count PIPE interface to access the plurality of MAC PIPE registers. The PHY block may also be selectively configurable to implement a PIPE architecture to operate in a PIPE mode and a serialization and deserialization (SERDES) architecture to operate in a SERDES mode.
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公开(公告)号:US10387339B2
公开(公告)日:2019-08-20
申请号:US15393427
申请日:2016-12-29
申请人: Intel Corporation
IPC分类号: G06F1/12 , G06F13/16 , G06F13/40 , G06F13/42 , H04L12/933 , H04L12/741
摘要: A supersequence corresponding to an initialization state is received on a link that includes a repeating pattern of an electrical idle exit ordered set (EIEOS) followed by a number of consecutive training sequences. Instances of the EIEOS are to be aligned with a rollover of a sync counter. A latency value is determined from one of the EIEOS instances in the supersequence and latency is added to a receive path of the link through a latency buffer based on the latency value.
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公开(公告)号:US10372657B2
公开(公告)日:2019-08-06
申请号:US15390648
申请日:2016-12-26
申请人: Intel Corporation
发明人: Venkatraman Iyer , William R. Halleck , Rahul R. Shah , Eric Lee
摘要: Systems, methods, and apparatuses including a Physical layer (PHY) block coupled to a Media Access Control layer (MAC) block via a PHY/MAC interface. Each of the PHY and MAC blocks include a plurality of Physical Interface for PCI Express (PIPE) registers. The PHY/MAC interface includes a low pin count PIPE interface comprising a small set of wires coupled between the PHY block and the MAC block. The low pin count PIPE interface is configured to transfer register commands between the PHY and MAC blocks over the small set of wires in a time-multiplexed manner to support read and write access of the PHY and MAC PIPE registers. The PHY block may also be selectively configurable to implement a PIPE architecture when operating in a PIPE mode and a serialization and deserialization (SERDES) architecture when operating in a SERDES mode.
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公开(公告)号:US10324882B2
公开(公告)日:2019-06-18
申请号:US15393631
申请日:2016-12-29
申请人: Intel Corporation
摘要: An exit pattern is sent to initiate exit from a partial width state, where only a portion of the available lanes of a link are used to transmit data and the remaining lanes are idle. The exit pattern is sent on the idle lanes, the exit pattern including an electrical ordered set (EOS), one or more fast training sequences (FTS), a start of data sequence (SDS), and a partial fast training sequence (FTSp). The SDS includes a byte number field to indicate a number of a bytes measured from a previous control interval of the link, and an end of the SDS is sent to coincide with a clean flit boundary on the active lanes. The partial width state is exited based on the exit pattern and data is sent on all available lanes following the exit from the partial width state.
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公开(公告)号:US20180191523A1
公开(公告)日:2018-07-05
申请号:US15394278
申请日:2016-12-29
申请人: Intel Corporation
IPC分类号: H04L12/407 , H04L12/933 , H04B3/36
CPC分类号: H04B3/36 , G06F13/40 , H04L47/125
摘要: An apparatus includes an agent to facilitate communication in one of two or more modes, where a first of the two or more modes involves communication over links including a first number of lanes and a second of the two or more modes involves communication over links including a second number of lanes, and the first number is greater than the second number. The apparatus further includes a memory including data to indicate which of the two or modes applies to a particular link and a multiplexer to reverse lane numbering on links including either the first number of lanes or the second number of lanes.
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公开(公告)号:US09817054B2
公开(公告)日:2017-11-14
申请号:US13729756
申请日:2012-12-28
申请人: Intel Corporation
摘要: Methods and apparatus relating to electrical margining of multi-parameter high-speed interconnect links with multi-sample probing are described. In one embodiment, logic is provided to generate one or more parameter values, corresponding to an electrical operating margin of an interconnect. The one or more parameter values are generated based on a plurality of eye observation sets to be detected in response to operation of the interconnect in accordance with a plurality of parameter sets (e.g., by using quantitative optimization techniques). In turn, the interconnect is to be operated at the one or more parameter values if it is determined that the one or more parameter values cause the interconnect to operate at an optimum level relative to an operation of the interconnect in accordance with one or more less optimum parameter levels. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.
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公开(公告)号:US20170294906A1
公开(公告)日:2017-10-12
申请号:US15632836
申请日:2017-06-26
申请人: Intel Corporation
发明人: Mahesh Wagh , Zuoguo J. Wu , Venkatraman Iyer , Gerald S. Pasdast , Todd A. Hinck , David M. Lee , Narasimha R. Lanka
CPC分类号: H03K5/26 , G01R31/041 , G06F1/3296 , G06F13/4291 , H03K5/131 , H03L9/00
摘要: In an example, a system and method for centering in a high-performance interconnect (HPI) are disclosed. When an interconnect is powered up from a dormant state, it may be necessary to “center” the clock signal to ensure that data are read at the correct time. A multi-phase method may be used, in which a first phase comprises a reference voltage sweep to identify an optimal reference voltage. A second phase comprises a phase sweep to identify an optimal phase. A third sweep comprises a two-dimensional “eye” phase, in which a plurality of values within a two-dimensional eye derived from the first two sweeps are tested. In each case, the optimal value is the value that results in the fewest bit error across multiple lanes. In one example, the second and third phases are performed in software, and may include testing a “victim” lane, with adjacent “aggressor” lanes having a complementary bit pattern.
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