Intel Corporation

Beomtaek Lee

Kai Xiao

Xiaoning Ye

James A McCall

Zuoguo Wu

Xiang Li

Jaejin Lee

Yunhui Chu

Jong-Ru Guo

Jun Liao

Jingbo Li

Mo Liu

Chung-Chi Huang

Yuanhong Zhao

Embodiments may relate to a connector. The connector may include a plurality of connector pins that are to communicatively couple an element of a printed circuit board (PCB) with an element of an electronic device when the element of the PCB and the element of the electronic device are coupled with the connector. The connector may also include an active circuit that is communicatively coupled with a pin of the plurality of pins. The active circuit may be configured to match an impedance of the element of the PCB with an impedance of the element of the electronic device. Other embodiments may be described or claimed.

Connector with active circuit

In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for receiving a jitter profile and a step response of a channel coupled between a transmitter and a receiver and a bit pattern to be transmitted, transmitting the bit pattern along the channel from the transmitter to the receiver with the jitter profile and the step response, receiving the bit pattern at the receiver and converting the bit pattern to a data stream by interpolating the step response according to a jitter of a current bit to obtain a jittery step response, superposing the jittery step response onto the data stream, calculating the jitter at each transition bit of the bit pattern by determining a time difference between actual and ideal crossing points, incrementing a jitter distribution function with the jitter, and generating a timing curve for the channel using the jitter distribution function. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Determining a bit error rate (BER) using interpolation and superposition

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Beaverton, OR, United States of America

Beomtaek Lee