Abstract:
Disclosed is a scalable input/output interface that has multiple bays and includes a housing surrounding a plurality of pairs of substrates. A first substrate of the pair of substrates may have a first contact surface and a second substrate of the pair of substrates may have a second contact surface that opposes the first contact surface, wherein each substrate has a connection edge. At least one integrated buffer can be coupled to either the first side or the second side of each substrate. A plurality of rows of contacts can be coupled to the opposing surfaces of each substrate of the pair of substrates, wherein each row of contacts can be stacked substantially parallel to the connection edge. Each connection edge can also be coupled to a separate integrated buffer.
Abstract:
Systems and methods of interconnecting devices may include an input/output (IO) connector assembly having a voltage regulator, one or more signaling circuits, a first set of contacts, a second set of contacts connected to the one or more signaling circuits, and logic to receive a configuration command. The logic may also connect the first set of contacts to the voltage regulator if the configuration command corresponds to a first protocol. If the configuration command corresponds to a second protocol, on the other hand, the logic can connect the first set of contacts to the one or more signaling circuits.
Abstract:
Systems and methods of interconnecting devices may include an input/output (IO) connector having a buffer with an integrated voltage regulator. The integrated voltage regulator may include a first supply output and a second supply output, wherein the IO connector includes an IO power contact coupled to the first supply output. The IO connector may also include a logic power contact coupled to the second supply output. In one example, a host device may issue power management commands to the buffer in order to scale the second supply output independently of the first supply output.
Abstract:
An adaptive equalizer finite impulse response (FIR) filter for high-speed communication channels with modest complexity, where the filter is iteratively updated during a training sequence by a circuit performing the update: (I), where (II) is the filter vector representing the filter taps of the FIR filter, (III) is the data vector representing present and past samples of the received data x (t), d(t) is the desired data used for training, z(t) is the output of the FIR filter, µ determines the memory or window size of the adaptation, and K is a scale factor taking into account practical limitations of the communication channel, receiver, and equalizer. Furthermore, a procedure and circuit structure is provided for calibrating the scale factor K .
Abstract:
A chip includes a chip interface to accept a delay control signal from outside the chip. The chip also includes a controllable delay line to delay an input signal responsive to the delay control signal to provide an output signal with a particular phase relationship to the input signal.
Abstract:
A memory device having memory cells supplied with a separate higher voltage power than the separate power supplied to memory logic, and a lower power state that entails removing power from at least some of the logic such that refresh operations to preserve the contents of the memory cells continue to take place, but at least some of the interface to the memory device is powered down to reduce power consumption.
Abstract:
Systems and methods of interconnecting devices may include a connector assembly having a substrate, a set of input/output (IO) contacts, an antenna structure and transceiver logic. In one example, the transceiver logic may process one or more IO signals associated with the antenna structure and process one or more IO signals associated with the set of IO contacts.
Abstract:
Systems and methods of interconnecting devices may include an input/output (10) interface having one or more device-side data lanes and transceiver logic to receive a bandwidth configuration command. The transceiver logic may also configure a transmit bandwidth of the one or more device- side data lanes based on the bandwidth configuration command. Additionally, the transceiver logic can configure a receive bandwidth of the one or more device- side data lanes based on the bandwidth configuration command.
Abstract:
A system and method for creating shareable Internet-based advertisements includes administration console receiving data for Internet-based advertisement from a client, configuring an overlay to provide on top of the Internet-based advertisement. A database operatively connected to the administration console stores data and code related to overlay and advertisement. A share tag is applied to the advertisement, the share tag including a script reference pointing to the stored data and code stored in database. A share tag server retrieves the stored data and code and displays the overlay on the advertisement as an expanded share tag, upon activation of the share tag of the advertisement published on a content website. Upon activation of a share feature on the expanded share tag, the share tag server provides, to a desired social media network server, the stored data needed to display the advertisement on the user's social media network page.
Abstract:
A passive impedance equalization network (250,255,260,265) for high speed serial links is described. The impedance equalization network may include at least one stepped impedance transformer near points of impedance discontinuities (205,225,210,230). The impedance discontinuities may be at an interface connection between two circuit boards. The impedance discontinuities on a circuit board may be at a die-package interface and/or a package-board interface. The stepped impedance transformer may be formed in a package trace, a board trace or both. Forming the stepped impedance transformers in the traces requires no modification to existing package/board design methodology or technology. The stepped impedance transformers can provide impedance matching over a range of frequencies. To account for modeling errors in the design of the stepped impedance transformers integrated circuits transmitting data over the serial link may include active circuitry to select an output/input impedance for transmitters/receivers. Other embodiments are otherwise disclosed herein.