Nxp B.v.

Hans De Kuyper

Siamak Delshadpour

Abhijeet Chandrakant Kulkarni

Ronald Dean Smith

Amrita Deshpande

Krishnan Tiruchi Natarajan

Cornelis Johannes Speelman

Sivakumar Reddy Papadasu

Allen Yu-feng Tung

A redriver includes a plurality of channels coupled to an interface, a number of detectors coupled to the plurality of channels, and a controller that determines an orientation of the interface based on states detected by the number of detectors. The controller determines that the interface is in a first orientation when a first combination of states is detected for the plurality of channels, and determines that the interface is in a second orientation when a second combination of states is detected for the plurality of channels.

Redriver to autonomously detect cable orientation

A redriver chip includes a controller and a plurality of circuits coupled to the channel. The controller adjusts a set of parameters of the plurality of circuits to have first values during a first mode of operation and second values during a second mode of operation. The first values generate a first level of power consumption during the first mode of operation, and the second values generate a second level of power consumption during the second mode of operation. The first level of power consumption is lower than the second level of power consumption, and the first mode of operation corresponding to a low-power mode of the redriver chip.

Power consumption management in protocol-based redrivers

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Leuven, Belgium

Hans De Kuyper