摘要:
In an input receiver circuit includes a signal input for receiving a signal input to a chip, a chip output for supplying a buffered signal to circuitry on the chip and a positive feedback circuit coupled between the chip output and the signal input. The positive feedback circuit might comprise a first inverter having an input coupled to the signal input, a second inverter having an input coupled to an output of the first inverter, wherein an output of the second inverter provides the chip output, and an inverting buffer having an input coupled to the output of the second inverter and an output coupled to the signal input.
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A power converter within an integrated circuit (“IC”) for providing DC power to one or more function circuit, where the power converter has a transformer circuit for receiving an AC power signal and for supplying a transformed AC power signal. A converter circuit receives the transformed AC power signal and then converts the signal into a DC power signal supplied to one or more function circuit. The transformed AC power signal might either be stepped up or stepped down. The transformer circuit might comprise two coils, where a first coil is magnetically coupled to a second coil. The first coil is a first spiral and the second coil is a second spiral wherein an insulating material layer is disposed between the first spiral and the second spiral. The transformer circuit might include transformers connected in parallel or in series and may further be connected correspondingly to more than one converter circuit coupled in parallel. An IC comprising the power converter circuit can be integrated into a computer system.
摘要:
An improved output driver for HSTL includes a bias control transistor to absorb current leaking through the base-collector capacitance of the drive transistor and maintain the base voltage on the drive transistor. The bias control transistor is biased by a series network coupled between a base of the bias control transistor and ground, which keeps the bias control transistor at a bias near its turn-on bias, with a feedback capacitor coupled between the output and the base of the bias control transistor to turn on the bias control transistor when the output rises.
摘要:
A bi-directional communication system and transceiver configuration are described, which employ a bi-directional reference to account for both common-mode and differential noise introduced at either end of a bi-directional communication channel. Some implementations exploit the techniques described in a bi-directional chip-to-chip communication scheme. In some implementations, the advantages of bi-directional reference techniques described herein are obtained while pre-distortion of transmitted signals is employed to compensate for intersymbol interference (ISI) in a communications channel.
摘要:
An apparatus for suppressing the effect of noise from a first circuit on the performance of a second circuit wherein the first and second circuits are on a common substrate. Each of the first and second circuits include first and second supply rails. The apparatus includes a noise isolation circuit and a noise transference circuit. The noise isolation circuit is for coupling the first supply rails of the first and second circuits to prevent noise on the first supply rail of the first circuit from transferring to the first supply rail of the second circuit. The noise transference circuit is for coupling the second supply rails of the first and second circuits so that noise on the second supply rail of the first circuit is transferred to the second supply rail of the second circuit.
摘要:
A clock recovery system that allows recovery of a clock signal from a high speed, potentially small amplitude data stream. The invention uses a normally avoided property of a non-linear oscillator in the clock recovery system in order to lock the oscillator in phase to an incoming signal. This property relates a characteristic of an oscillator that an oscillator amplifies noise near its inherent frequency; and if the noise is large enough, the oscillator squelches the inherent oscillator frequency signal and outputs a signal locked in frequency and phase to the noise. The clock recovery system comprises a processing circuit, an oscillator, and a control circuit. The processing circuit processes an input data stream to generate a current signal as a first control signal based on data transitions in the input data stream. The first control signal is a "noise signal" to the oscillator. The control circuit outputs a voltage control signal as a second signal to the oscillator based on a difference between an output fed back from the oscillator and a reference frequency signal matching the frequency of the input data stream within a predetermined tolerance range. The second control signal controls the oscillator so that the frequency of the oscillator output is substantially equal to that of the input data stream. Therefore, according to the invention, the oscillator is controlled by the first control signal such that the oscillator output is phase-locked and thus also frequency-locked to the input data stream.
摘要:
A system is presented for latching and amplifying a capacitively coupled inter-chip communication signal that operates by receiving an input signal on a capacitive receiver pad and feeding the input signal through an inverter to produce an output signal. The output signal is fed back through a weakened inverter to produce a feedback signal that is fed into an input of the inverter to form a latch for the input signal. The weakened inverter is biased to produce a feedback signal that swings between a high bias voltage, VH, and a low bias voltage, VL. VH is set slightly higher than the switching threshold of the inverter, and VL is set slightly lower than the switching threshold. This feedback signal causes the input signal to reside within a narrow voltage range near the switching threshold of the inverter, thereby making the inverter sensitive to small transitions in the input signal.
摘要翻译:提出了一种用于锁存和放大电容耦合的芯片间通信信号的系统,其通过接收电容性接收器焊盘上的输入信号并通过反相器馈送输入信号以产生输出信号来操作。 输出信号通过弱化逆变器反馈,产生反馈信号,该反馈信号馈送到反相器的输入端,形成输入信号的锁存器。 弱化的逆变器被偏置以产生在高偏置电压V H H和低偏压V L之间摆动的反馈信号。 V H设定得比逆变器的切换阈值略高,并且将V L L设定得比切换阈值略低。 该反馈信号使得输入信号驻留在接近逆变器的开关阈值的窄电压范围内,从而使得反相器对输入信号中的小转变敏感。
摘要:
A clock interpolation circuit for setting and controlling a phase of an output clock that is derived from an interpolation of multiple input clocks. Interpolation is performed by capacitively weighting the multiple clocks. A select and control circuit provides the ability to select different capacitance values to control the weighting. An optional buffer stage is also provided to sharpen the edge transitions of the interpolated clock.
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A decoder circuit for decoding phase-encoded digital data signals includes a timing circuit and a signal viewer circuit coupled to logic circuitry. The timing circuit uses an edge of a received phase-encoded digital data signal to indicate when to sample data from the received phase-encoded digital data signal in the signal viewer circuit. The logic circuitry determines the value encoded in the phase-encoded digital data signal based on the sampled data.
摘要:
A phase error cancellation apparatus captures data bits of a serialized data stream with reduced phase error by aligning a generated clock signal to the data stream. The phase error cancellation apparatus includes a data delay pipe, a clock generator, a clock delay pipe, and a data stream sampling element. The data delay pipe receives the data stream and delays the data bits by a first amount. The clock generator generates a clock signal that the clock delay pipe delays by a second amount. The data stream sampling element receives the delayed data bits and the delayed clock signal, and samples the delayed data bits using the delayed clock signal to recover the data bits from the data stream with reduced phase error.