Intel Corporation

Jingbo Li

Kai Xiao

Xiang Li

Howard L Heck

Jong-Ru Guo

Mo Liu

Zuoguo Wu

Xiaoning Ye

Yunhui Chu

Chunfei Ye

Shaohua Li

James A McCall

Huimin Chen

Hao-Han Hsu

Kuan-Yu Chen

Jaejin Lee

Tao Xu

Beom-Taek Lee

Jun Liao

Anthony M Constantine

Yong Yang

Kai Wang

Yang Wu

Beomtaek Lee

Yuanhong Zhao

In one embodiment, a card edge connector includes a housing including a slot to receive a first circuit board. A first plurality of pins extend from within the slot through a bottom of the housing. Each of the first plurality of pins includes a first end to mate with a corresponding contact of the first circuit board and a second end to mate with a corresponding one of a first plurality of contacts of a second circuit board, the second end including a heel portion and a toe portion extending from the heel portion in a direction away from a centerline of the slot. A second plurality of pins extend from within the slot through the bottom of the housing. Each of the second plurality of pins includes a first end to mate with a corresponding contact of the first circuit board and a second end to mate with a corresponding one of a second plurality of contacts of the second circuit board, the second end comprising a heel portion and a toe portion extending from the heel portion in a direction toward the centerline of the slot. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Card edge connector including a flipped pin foot orientation

An apparatus comprises a crosstalk cancelation circuit comprising a plurality of taps to output signals based on a signal transmitted via a first data line; and a summation circuit to combine a signal received by a second data line with the signals output by the plurality of taps to reduce near-end crosstalk present in the signal received by the second data line.

Near-end crosstalk cancellation system

An apparatus may comprise a skew detection circuit to sample a common mode voltage of a differential signal, wherein the sampled common mode voltage is indicative of an amount of skew between a first signal of the differential signal and a second signal of the differential signal; and a skew compensation circuit to adjust a delay of the first signal or the second signal based on the sampled common mode voltage to reduce the amount of skew.

Skew detection and compensation for high speed I/O links

Embodiments of the present disclosure may relate to a controller coupled to a re-driver, where the controller has one or more sensor ports to couple with sensor devices, with circuitry coupled with the sensor ports and a re-driver port to receive operational data from the sensor ports, and based on the received operational data identify an indication of a re-driver equalizer setting to be transmitted to the re-driver device. Embodiments are used to increase the stability of the re-driver and maintain link margins a crossed varied operational conditions of the re-driver. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.

Equalizer settings for a re-driver

In one embodiment, a card edge connector includes: a housing having an opening into which a first circuit board is to be inserted; a plurality of pins each having a first end and a second end, the plurality of pins extending from within the opening through a bottom surface of the housing, the first end of the first plurality of pins to mate with a corresponding contact of the first circuit board; and a plurality of ball grid array (BGA) solder balls each adapted at the second end of a corresponding one of the plurality of pins, the plurality of pins to mate with a corresponding conductive area of a second circuit board to which the card edge connector mates via the plurality of BGA solder balls. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Ball grid array card edge connector

In accordance with embodiments disclosed herein, there is provided a high-density low-loss cable and connector assembly. A cable assembly includes a first cable connector, a bulk cable section, and a first cable transition section. The bulk cable section includes a first plurality of conductive wires of a first wire thickness. The first cable transition section includes a second plurality of conductive wires that has a first distal end connected to the bulk cable section and a second distal end connected to the first cable connector. Each of the second plurality of conductive wires transitions from the first wire thickness at the first distal end to a second wire thickness that is less than the first wire thickness at the second distal end. Each of the second plurality of conductive wires in the first distal end is connected to a corresponding conductive wire of the first plurality of conductive wires.

High-density low-loss cable and connector assembly

An apparatus, such as a re-driver, can include a receiver port coupled to a first link partner across a first link; a transmitter port coupled to a second link partner across a second link; and a power management (PM) controller implemented in hardware. The PM controller can detect a PM control signal, determine a PM state for the apparatus based on the PM control signal, and cause the apparatus to enter the PM state. The apparatus can transmit electrical signals to the second link partner based on the PM state. The PM management control signal can include a clock request, an electrical idle, a common mode voltage, or other electrical signal indicative of a PM link state change of a link partner coupled to the re-driver.

Power management of re-driver devices

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

Techniques and mechanisms for providing a reference potential with a flexible circuit device. In an embodiment, the flexible circuit device includes a first interconnect to exchange a signal and a second interconnect to exchange a reference potential that facilitates shielding of the signal. The first and second interconnects are variously coupled to a printed circuit board (PCB) via a first contact and a second contact of a hardware interface. During such coupling, a maximum height of the second interconnect from a side of the PCB at the hardware interface is greater than a maximum height of the first interconnect from the side of the PCB at the hardware interface. In another embodiment, a distance of the first contact from an end of the flexible circuit device is different than a distance of the second contact from the end of the flexible circuit device.

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