摘要:
An integrated circuit comprises a pin coupled to receive signals from outside the integrated circuit and an input network. The input network equalizes incoming signals by attenuating lower frequency input signals more than higher frequency input signals received at the pin. The input network is configured to generate a DC bias voltage at an output of the input network in response to an AC coupled input signal or a DC coupled input signal received at the pin with a wide common-mode range.
摘要:
An analog device under test circuit and a built-in test circuit for testing an AC transfer characteristic of the analog device under test are fabricated on an integrated circuit. The built-in test circuit includes an amplitude detector that detects the amplitude of the output signal of the analog device under test. The test time is reduced by sampling in real-time the DC value corresponding to the amplitude of the analog device under test. An additional reduction in the test time is achieved by using comparators with upper and lower limit reference signals and a pass-fail logic test.
摘要:
A cable detector includes one or more peak detectors that detect when a termination impedance is missing from the output of a line driver. A peak detection signal is asserted when signals on a transmission line exceed a threshold level. A fault condition is asserted when the peak detection signal is asserted for a sufficient length of time to indicate that an actual fault is detected. The time period required for detecting a lost or missing line termination is longer than the time periods for any one of the pathological conditions to avoid a false positive detection. After the peak detection signal is de-asserted, the fault condition will be maintained until another sufficient length of time has expired without a peak detection.
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A communications cabling front-end architecture that achieves solid echo cancellation and lower noise performance by combining an echo-cancellation circuit and an equalizer function at the same point, at the most front-end of the system.
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An RC calibration circuit, which utilizes a resistor and a variable capacitor connected in parallel, reduces power consumption and increases the accuracy of the calibration by comparing the voltage on the resistor to the voltage on the capacitor after a predetermined time has expired since the capacitor began charging up. The result of the comparison, which indicates whether the voltage on the resistor is greater than the voltage on the capacitor, is then used to adjust the capacitance of the capacitor to servo the RC time constant to a predetermined value.
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A skew measurement system and method wherein each of the signals among which the skew is to be determined is connected one at a time to a clock recovery loop. The locked state of the clock recovery loop is used as an indicator of the skew of the data signal relative to the internal clock of the clock recovery loop. By measuring the difference between the locked state of different signals, their relative skew can be measured.
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A serial communication interface driver is provided wherein current steering switches are also used to provide termination impedances. The output voltage can be produced by a voltage-dividing current path between two regulated voltages, which provides improved efficiency.
摘要:
A cable detector includes one or more peak detectors that detect when a termination impedance is missing from the output of a line driver. A peak detection signal is asserted when signals on a transmission line exceed a threshold level. A fault condition is asserted when the peak detection signal is asserted for a sufficient length of time to indicate that an actual fault is detected. The time period required for detecting a lost or missing line termination is longer than the time periods for any one of the pathological conditions to avoid a false positive detection. After the peak detection signal is de-asserted, the fault condition will be maintained until another sufficient length of time has expired without a peak detection.
摘要:
A circuit and method are provided for performing built-in test of output signal magnitudes of integrated differential signal generator circuitry. In accordance with one embodiment, first upper and lower reference voltages and second upper and lower reference voltages are received via a plurality of reference electrodes, wherein: a difference between the first and upper and lower reference voltages comprises a first difference magnitude; a difference between the second upper and lower reference voltages comprises a second difference magnitude; and the first difference magnitude is greater than the second difference magnitude. Test signal generator circuitry provides a plurality of binary signals with respective successions of opposing signal states. Differential signal generator circuitry, coupled to the test signal generator circuitry and responsive to the plurality of binary signals, provides a plurality of differential signals having respective magnitudes related to the respective successions of opposing binary signal states. Signal comparison circuitry, coupled to the plurality of reference electrodes and the differential signal generator circuitry, and responsive to the first and second upper and lower reference signals and the plurality of differential signals, provides a plurality of test signals with respective test signal states indicative of whether respective ones of the differential signal magnitudes are within a range defined as being less than the first difference magnitude and greater than the second difference magnitude.
摘要:
A line driver outputs a pair of transmit signals TX+ and TX− that have substantially reduced output level variations due to variations in process, voltage, and temperature. The reduced output level variations are provided by varying the magnitude of the current that sets up the voltages of the transmit signals in a manner that offsets variations in the power supply voltage, temperature, and process, and by limiting variations of the bandgap current source to process and temperature only.