Texas Instruments Corporation

Hao Liu

Mark William Morgan

Yanli Fan

Yonghui Tang

Wesley Ray

Maxwell G Robertson

Dushmantha Bandara Rajapaksha

Suzanne Mary Vining

Win Naing Maung

M D Anwar Sadat

Yuxiang Zheng

Mohammed R Islam

Systems and methods are disclosed for an integrated circuit (IC) comprising an oscillator, an on-off-keying modulator configured to modulate input data coupled to the oscillator, a serial communications transmitter coupled to the on-off-keying modulator, a serial communications receiver coupled to the serial communications transmitter by a set of cables, and an envelope detector coupled to the serial communications receiver. In the IC, power and data are simultaneously delivered across the same set of cables from the serial communications transmitter to the serial communications receiver.

Power delivery and data communication over a single pair of cables

A signal conditioner that includes a transition-detection module and a current-injection module. The transition-detection module is configured to receive a pair of differential signals from a data line and generate one or more comparator output signals and a transition-indication signal to indicate whether a transition has been detected on the differential signals. The current-injection module is configured to receive the comparator output signals and transition-indication signal from the transition-detection module, and generate appropriate currents for injection into the data line to boost edge rates of the differential signals when the transition-detection module detects a transition of the differential signals or remain high impedance when no transition occurs on the differential signals.

Adaptive edge-rate boosting driver with programmable strength for signal conditioning

A signal conditioner can include a state machine configured to detect a predetermined protocol level mode of a data signal on a bi-directional serial bus. The signal conditioner can also include a re-driver configured to inject current into at least one of a rising edge and a falling edge of the data signal on the bi-directional serial bus in response to the detection of the predetermined protocol level mode.

Signal conditioner

For differential signal transmission (especially in high speed applications), intra-pair skew between paths carrying complementary portions of a differential signal can significantly affect performance. Conventional de-skew circuits employ simple filters (i.e., low-pass filters) to operate as delay elements to account for skew; however, these filters can distort the differential signal, which can also adverse affect performance. Here, an all-pass, adjustable delay element and de-skew circuit are provided to allow for compensation of skew without degrading the differential signal as conventional circuit do and, thus, having better performance characteristics.

High speed intra-pair de-skew circuit

A self-calibrating, adaptive equalization system for generating an ideal digital signal is disclosed. The adaptive equalization system includes an equalizer and a high-gain buffer. The equalizer includes a first equalizer loop that feeds-back a control voltage to the equalizer and the high-gain buffer that includes a second equalizer loop that feeds-back a high-pass-to-low-pass filter ratio signal. Each of the first and second equalizer loops has a high-pass and a low-pass filter, rectifying circuits for each of the filters, and an integrating circuit that compares signal energy output from the rectifiers. The adaptive equalization system generates an ideal digital signal.

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Hao Liu