Abstract:
The present invention relates to the reduction of timing uncertainly in a high speed communications channel or interface. The receiver according to the invention comprises a plurality of samplers for latching data. The invention provides improvements to the Bit Error rate versus channel and inherent register noise, as a result of employment of the characteristic of phase noise within the receiving registers to measure the characteristics of the channel and to compensate for variations in the channel by altering the timing characteristics of the signal.
Abstract:
A phase adjustment apparatus and a semiconductor test apparatus for automatically correcting irregularities of propagation delay of a transfer signal, so that the transfer signal transferred between apparatuses while synchronized with a high-speed clock can be received at a stable optimal timing at a reception side. The phase adjustment apparatus for transferring a transfer signal synchronized with a clock between a first apparatus of the transmission side and a second apparatus of the reception side includes phase adjustment means used when retiming the transfer signal with the clock of the reception side of the second apparatus. That is, the phase adjustment means corrects an unknown phase relationship between the clock of the reception side and the transfer signal and delays the transfer signal by a predetermined amount for adjustment so that the signal can be received with a stable retiming condition.
Abstract:
A microprocessor (45) controlled data recovery unit with an adjustable sampling and signal comparison level. The data recovery unit includes a data channel (41a) and a monitor channel (41b). The monitor channel samples an incoming data stream in a varying manner. The results of the sampling in the monitor channel are used to adjust the sampling and comparing of the signal in the data channel. The data recovery unit includes a PLL based clock recovery unit (35) in one embodiment, and in another embodiment the clock signal is derived by the microprocessor.
Abstract:
An improved timing extracting circuit of optical receiver, particularly using a frequency clock that is half the data transmission rate, and a duty shift adaptive circuit of optical transceiver. The timing extracting circuit has a detector circuit that, using a PLL circuit including a phase comparator circuit for performing a phase comparison between a data signal of a bit rate B (bit/s) and a clock signal of B/2 (Hz) at an interval of 2/B (sec), detects, in response to reception of a data signal of a predetermined pattern, that the phase comparator circuit no longer outputs any phase comparison information; and further has a control circuit responsive to that detection to control the phase of the clock signal so as to maintain the synchronization. The duty shift adaptive circuit controls, based on the result of determination of the duty between the input data before the synchronization of the PLL circuit is established and the input data after the establishment, the data identification phase before and after the establishment.
Abstract:
An apparatus and method are provided for bit synchronization in an optical time division multiplexed communication system. The apparatus is couplable to an optical gate, such as an optical demultiplexer. The apparatus includes a programmable optical delay line couplable to an input clock; an optical synchronizer coupled to the programmable optical delay line and couplable to the optical gate; and a processor coupled to the programmable optical delay line and to the optical synchronizer. The processor includes program instructions to track bit synchronization between a clock pulse and a selected data bit during a communication session; and when a bit tracking range is approaching a predetermined limit, the processor has further instructions to interrupt the communication session, return the bit tracking range to a zero offset and correspondingly adjust a programmable delay, and resume the communication session.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method for regenerating data. According to the inventive method, protected data is transmitted and the error rate of the receiving signal (DS) is determined at the receiving end. The sampling instants and the decision threshold are varied within a predetermined range and the transmission errors detected during this process are used to set an optimum sampling instant (T,A) and an optimum decision threshold (O) in the (AB). Error correction ensures that additional transmission errors have no effect.
Abstract:
According to the present invention, an unlimited number of steps or increments of given size are obtained in a delay line for phase alignment of, for instance, the signal from a crystal oscillator (XO) by momentarily switching between two parallel delay lines. One delay line operates as an active or enabled delay line while the other line is disabled or inactive. It is ensured at the same time that the inactive delay line produces a signal which has the same relative phase as the active delay line, this absolute phase differing by N x 2 pi , where N is a positive or a negative integer other than zero. The inventive method and the inventive device enable the active delay line to operate constantly within its regulation range and the phase of the local oscillator can be kept continuously locked to the phase of the reference signal. The inventive device also includes an oscillator (2), a phase comparator (5) and counter logic (4) and a further phase comparator (7) and a selection circuit (6) for signal selection from that one of the two parallel delay lines (10, 11) that has been placed in its active mode.
Abstract:
A programmable delay line comprises a delay stage responsive to an analog control signal and responsive to one or more digital control signals. The delay stage generates an output signal that is delayed relative to an input signal by a delay amount. The delay amount controlled by a value of the analog control signal and one or more values of the digital control signals. A method for controlling a delay locked loop circuit comprises providing, to a programmable delay line of the delay locked loop circuit, a one or more digital signals, and providing, to the programmable delay line, an analog signal. A first portion of a delay produced by the programmable delay line corresponds to values of the one or more digital signals. A second portion of the delay produced by the programmable delay line corresponds to a value of the analog signal.
Abstract:
The present invention is directed towards a method, a system, and a device which allow an improved synchronization of a system-wide timing information over a network. Hence, slave clocks can be synchronized to a high quality clock, such as a master clock.