Nxp B.v.

Nxp Usa, Inc.

Sivakumar Reddy Papadasu

Siamak Delshadpour

Abhijeet Chandrakant Kulkarni

Ronald Dean Smith

Amrita Deshpande

Krishnan Tiruchi Natarajan

Hans De Kuyper

Allen Yu-feng Tung

Embodiments of methods of communications, communications devices, and redrivers are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method of communications involves enabling a Loss of Signal (LOS) detector and a Low Frequency Periodic Signaling (LFPS) detector connected to a communications channel, using a digital logic circuit, combining an output of the LOS detector and an output of the LFPS detector to generate a combined LFPS output, and outputting the combined LFPS output and the output of the LOS detector to control data communications through the communications channel.

Communications device and method of communications

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

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Gilbert, AZ, United States of America

Sivakumar Reddy Papadasu