REDRIVER WITH OUTPUT RECEIVER DETECTION THAT MIRRORS DETECTED TERMINATION ON OUTPUT TO INPUT
Granted: July 31, 2014
Application Number:
20140210509
A redriver chip is inserted between a transmitter chip and a receiver chip and re-drives differential signals from the transmitter chip to the receiver chip. The redriver chip has switched output termination that switches to a high value to detect far-end termination at the receiver chip, and to a low value for signaling. An output detector detects when the receiver chip has termination to ground and enables switched input termination to provide termination to ground on the lines back to…
TRACE CANCELLER WITH EQUALIZER ADJUSTED FOR TRACE LENGTH DRIVING VARIABLE-GAIN AMPLIFIER WITH AUTOMATIC GAIN CONTROL LOOP
Granted: May 22, 2014
Application Number:
20140140386
Distortions of both amplitude and phase along a transmission line are compensated for by a trace canceller inserted between a transmitter and a receiver. The trace canceller has an equalizer that compensates for a trace length between the transmitter and the trace canceller. A variable gain amplifier between the equalizer and an output buffer has its gain controlled by an automatic gain control circuit that compares low-frequency swings of the input and output of the trace canceller. The…
In-Situ Cable Unplug Detector Operating During Normal Signaling Mode
Granted: February 28, 2013
Application Number:
20130049765
An in-situ unplug detector circuit detects when a cable is disconnected or unplugged. Detection does not have to wait for normal signaling to pause, such at the end of a frame or timeout. Instead, detection occurs during normal signaling. When the cable is disconnected, the transmitter no longer drives the load at the far end of the cable, and thus can drive the near end to a higher high voltage and to a lower low voltage. The increased voltage swing is detected by a detector at the near…
Re-Driver with Pre-Emphasis Injected Through a Transformer and Tuned by an L-C Tank
Granted: September 27, 2012
Application Number:
20120242377
A re-driver circuit has pre-driver, intermediate, and output stages. Pre-emphasis on the output is generated by the intermediate stage and injected into an output stage. The intermediate stage is a frequency-tuned amplifier that has an inductive-capacitive L-C tank circuit that is tuned to a desired frequency of the output. The intermediate stage does not directly drive the output stage. Instead, an on-chip coupling transformer couples the L-C tank circuit to the output stage. The…
Redriver with Output Receiver Detection that Mirrors Detected Termination on Output to Input
Granted: September 20, 2012
Application Number:
20120235704
A redriver chip is inserted between a transmitter chip and a receiver chip and re-drives differential signals from the transmitter chip to the receiver chip. The redriver chip has switched output termination that switches to a high value to detect far-end termination at the receiver chip, and to a low value for signaling. An output detector detects when the receiver chip has termination to ground and enables switched input termination to provide termination to ground on the lines back to…
Trace Canceller with Equalizer Adjusted for Trace Length Driving Variable-Gain Amplifier with Automatic Gain Control Loop
Granted: April 12, 2012
Application Number:
20120087405
Distortions of both amplitude and phase along a transmission line are compensated for by a trace canceller inserted between a transmitter and a receiver. The trace canceller has an equalizer that compensates for a trace length between the transmitter and the trace canceller. A variable gain amplifier between the equalizer and an output buffer has its gain controlled by an automatic gain control circuit that compares low-frequency swings of the input and output of the trace canceller. The…
Dual-Output Triple-Vdd Charge Pump
Granted: December 9, 2010
Application Number:
20100308899
A dual-output triple-Vdd charge pump as two pumped outputs that are both pumped to three times the power-supply voltage, 3×Vdd. This pumped output voltage is reduced by two p-channel inner diode drops, to 3×Vdd?2×|Vtp|. A pair of cross-coupled n-channel transistors alternately charge two inner nodes from the power supply. Inner pumping capacitors drive inner nodes between Vdd and 2×Vdd, and the cross-coupling of the gates turns off one of the cross-coupled n-channel transistors when…
Out-Of-Band Signaling Using Detector with Equalizer, Multiplier and Comparator
Granted: May 27, 2010
Application Number:
20100127734
Power-down mode is activated when equal voltages are detected on a pair of differential inputs. The voltage difference across the differential inputs is equalized by an equalizer and then applied to a multiplier and smoothed and filtered by a low-pass filter to produce an average signal. The average signal is compared to a reference voltage to detect when the voltage difference across the differential inputs is too small. A power-down signal is activated when the average signal is too…
Redriver with Output Receiver Detection that Mirrors Detected Termination on Output to Input
Granted: April 29, 2010
Application Number:
20100105319
A redriver chip is inserted between a transmitter chip and a receiver chip and re-drives differential signals from the transmitter chip to the receiver chip. The redriver chip has switched output termination that switches to a high value to detect far-end termination at the receiver chip, and to a low value for signaling. An output detector detects when the receiver chip has termination to ground and enables switched input termination to provide termination to ground on the lines back to…
Crystal Clock Generator Operating at Third Overtone of Crystal's Fundamental Frequency
Granted: March 29, 2007
Application Number:
20070069826
A crystal oscillator operates at the third overtone of the crystal's fundamental frequency. A value of a shunt resistor between the two phase-shift leg nodes is chosen so that the absolute value of the product gm×(Xc1)×(Xc2) is greater than the effective reactance of the crystal, where gm is the gain of the amplifier attached to the phase-shift legs, and Xc1 and Xc2 are the effective capacitive reactances of phase-shift legs at nodes X1 and X2. The third overtone is doubled by a…
MANUFACTURING PROCESS FOR A SURFACE-MOUNT METAL-CAVITY PACKAGE FOR AN OSCILLATOR CRYSTAL BLANK
Granted: February 16, 2006
Application Number:
20060032051
A surface-mount package for an oscillator crystal blank is made from a metal sheet substrate. Half-etched cavities are formed on one side of the sheet. The half-etched cavities are filled in with an insulator. The center of the insulator is drilled until metal is reached, leaving insulator on the sidewalls of the resulting drilled via. The bottom of the drilled via is plated with a contact metal such as nickel-gold, and then the entire drilled via is filled in with metal such as copper…
