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公开(公告)号:US11075671B2
公开(公告)日:2021-07-27
申请号:US16685861
申请日:2019-11-15
Applicant: Rambus Inc.
Inventor: John W. Poulton , Frederick A. Ware , Carl W. Werner
IPC: H04B3/56 , H04L25/02 , G06F13/40 , H03F3/24 , H04B3/54 , H04B10/50 , H04B10/40 , H04B10/073 , H04B1/04
Abstract: A single-ended data transmission system transmits a signal having a signal voltage that is referenced to a power supply voltage and that swings above and below the power supply voltage. The power supply voltage is coupled to a power supply rail that also serves as a signal return path. The signal voltage is derived from two signal supply voltages generated by a pair of charge pumps that draw substantially same amount of current from a power supply.
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公开(公告)号:US20200294557A1
公开(公告)日:2020-09-17
申请号:US16828591
申请日:2020-03-24
Applicant: Rambus Inc.
Inventor: Frederick A. Ware , John Eric Linstadt , Carl W. Werner
Abstract: In a chip-to-chip signaling system includes at least one signaling link coupled between first and second ICs, the first IC has an interface coupled to the signaling link and timed by a first interface timing signal. The second IC has an interface coupled to the signaling link and timed by a second interface timing signal that is mesochronous with respect to the first interface timing signal. The second IC further has phase adjustment circuitry that adjusts a phase of the second interface timing signal using a digital counter implemented with Josephson-junction circuit elements.
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公开(公告)号:US10177749B2
公开(公告)日:2019-01-08
申请号:US15478757
申请日:2017-04-04
Applicant: Rambus Inc.
Inventor: Frederick A. Ware , John Eric Linstadt , Carl W. Werner
IPC: H03K5/22 , H04L25/02 , H03K3/38 , H03K19/0175 , H03K19/195
Abstract: In an integrated-circuit component having a signal transmitter receives a transmitter power supply that cycles periodically between power-off and power-on voltage levels to define a sequence of enable intervals during which the signal transmitter is to output voltage levels corresponding to respective transmit data bits onto an external signaling link. The signal transmitter generates, at the start of each output-enable interval, an initial nonzero voltage having a first polarity across conductors of the external signaling link, and then conditionally transitions the initial nonzero voltage to a second nonzero voltage according to whether the transmit data bit corresponding to the output-enable interval has a predetermined one of two binary states, the second nonzero voltage having a polarity opposite the first polarity.
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公开(公告)号:US20180350411A1
公开(公告)日:2018-12-06
申请号:US15779977
申请日:2016-12-01
Applicant: Rambus Inc.
Inventor: Frederick A. Ware , John Eric Linstadt , Carl W. Werner
CPC classification number: G06F1/12 , G11C7/04 , G11C7/222 , G11C29/022 , G11C29/023 , G11C29/50012 , G11C2207/2254 , H03K5/15
Abstract: In a chip-to-chip signaling system includes at least one signaling link coupled between first and second ICs, the first IC has an interface coupled to the signaling link and timed by a first interface timing signal. The second IC has an interface coupled to the signaling link and timed by a second interface timing signal that is mesochronous with respect to the first interface timing signal. The second IC further has phase adjustment circuitry that adjusts a phase of the second interface timing signal using a digital counter implemented with Josephson-junction circuit elements.
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公开(公告)号:US11689246B2
公开(公告)日:2023-06-27
申请号:US17354235
申请日:2021-06-22
Applicant: Rambus Inc.
Inventor: John W. Poulton , Frederick A. Ware , Carl W. Werner
IPC: H04B3/56 , H04L25/02 , G06F13/40 , H03F3/24 , H04B3/54 , H04B10/50 , H04B10/40 , H04B10/073 , H04B1/04
CPC classification number: H04B3/56 , G06F13/4072 , H03F3/24 , H04B3/54 , H04L25/0272 , H01L2224/48091 , H01L2224/48227 , H01L2224/49109 , H01L2924/13091 , H01L2924/15311 , H04B10/0731 , H04B10/40 , H04B10/50 , H04B2001/0408 , H01L2224/48091 , H01L2924/00014 , H01L2924/13091 , H01L2924/00
Abstract: A single-ended data transmission system transmits a signal having a signal voltage that is referenced to a power supply voltage and that swings above and below the power supply voltage. The power supply voltage is coupled to a power supply rail that also serves as a signal return path. The signal voltage is derived from two signal supply voltages generated by a pair of charge pumps that draw substantially same amount of current from a power supply.
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公开(公告)号:US11239827B2
公开(公告)日:2022-02-01
申请号:US16952553
申请日:2020-11-19
Applicant: Rambus Inc.
Inventor: Masum Hossain , Carl W. Werner
Abstract: Disclosed is receiver for a noise limited system. A front-end circuit amplifies and band-limits an incoming signal. The amplification increases the signal swing but introduces both thermal and flicker noise. A low-pass band limitation reduces the thermal noise component present at frequencies above what is necessary for correctly receiving the transmitted symbols. This band limited signal is provided to the integrator circuit. The output of the integrator is equalized to reduce the effects of inter-symbol interference and then sampled. The samples are used to apply low frequency equalization (i.e., in response to long and/or unbalanced strings of symbols) to mitigate the effects of DC wander caused by mismatches between the number of symbols of each kind being received.
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公开(公告)号:US11146269B1
公开(公告)日:2021-10-12
申请号:US16266244
申请日:2019-02-04
Applicant: Rambus Inc.
Inventor: Frederick A. Ware , Carl W. Werner
IPC: H03K17/92 , H03K19/173 , G06F1/26 , H03K19/195 , F25D29/00
Abstract: An signal switching integrated-circuit die includes an array of switch cells, control signal contacts, data input contacts and data output contacts. Switch control signals are received from an external control-signal source via respective control signal contacts, inbound data signals are received from one or more external data-signal sources via respective data input contacts and outbound data signals are conveyed to one or more external data-signal destinations via respective data output contacts. The array of switch cells receives the control signals directly from the control signal contacts and response to the control signals by switchably interconnecting the data input contacts with selected ones of the data output contacts.
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公开(公告)号:US20170324019A1
公开(公告)日:2017-11-09
申请号:US15478757
申请日:2017-04-04
Applicant: Rambus Inc.
Inventor: Frederick A. Ware , John Eric Linstadt , Carl W. Werner
IPC: H01L39/02
CPC classification number: H03K3/38 , H03K19/017509 , H03K19/195
Abstract: In an integrated-circuit component having a signal transmitter receives a transmitter power supply that cycles periodically between power-off and power-on voltage levels to define a sequence of enable intervals during which the signal transmitter is to output voltage levels corresponding to respective transmit data bits onto an external signaling link. The signal transmitter generates, at the start of each output-enable interval, an initial nonzero voltage having a first polarity across conductors of the external signaling link, and then conditionally transitions the initial nonzero voltage to a second nonzero voltage according to whether the transmit data bit corresponding to the output-enable interval has a predetermined one of two binary states, the second nonzero voltage having a polarity opposite the first polarity.
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公开(公告)号:US12149289B2
公开(公告)日:2024-11-19
申请号:US17967029
申请日:2022-10-17
Applicant: Rambus Inc.
Inventor: Mark D. Kellam , Carl W. Werner
IPC: H04J14/06 , H04B10/40 , H04B10/532
Abstract: A photonic communication system in which a host communicates bidirectionally with a target via a single optical fiber using light of the same wavelength and from the same light source. Signals flowing in opposite directions are discriminated based on polarity. Using the same fiber and light source in both directions reduces cost, complexity, and power consumption.
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公开(公告)号:US20230052220A1
公开(公告)日:2023-02-16
申请号:US17892291
申请日:2022-08-22
Applicant: Rambus Inc.
Inventor: Frederick A. Ware , John Eric Linstadt , Carl W. Werner
Abstract: In a chip-to-chip signaling system includes at least one signaling link coupled between first and second ICs, the first IC has an interface coupled to the signaling link and timed by a first interface timing signal. The second IC has an interface coupled to the signaling link and timed by a second interface timing signal that is mesochronous with respect to the first interface timing signal. The second IC further has phase adjustment circuitry that adjusts a phase of the second interface timing signal using a digital counter implemented with Josephson-junction circuit elements.
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