Acuid Corporation Limited

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Aucid Corporation, Limited

Vasily Grigorievich Atyunin

Alexander Roger Deas

Igor Anatolievich Abrosimov

Ilya Valerievich Klotchkov

Ilya Vasilievich Klotchkov

Igor Anatolievich Abrossimov

A data transmission apparatus and method employing the phase noise characteristics within the receiving registers to measure and control the characteristics of the channel as a function of the data pattern and to compensate for production tolerances within the channel by altering the timing characteristics of the signal at either the transmitter or receiver as a function of the data. Time offsets between different signals that form the communication channel are measured for different frequencies and/or for different data patterns transmitted through the channel and stored to compensate for an inter-signal skew by performing relative alignment of the measured offsets to a main clock edge.

Data transmission apparatus for high-speed transmission of digital data and method for automatic skew calibration

The present invention relates in general to the field of generation of precise electrical signals, in particular, to a technique for providing accurate delays of signals using a controllable delay line, and is applicable to the areas of high speed communication and memory testing equipment. According to the present invention, an auxiliary reference channel having a delay line which is identical to the main delay line is incorporated into vernier silicon die to allow automatic adjustment of the delay in the main delay line using a reference periodical signal applied to the auxiliary delay line.

Programmable self-calibrating vernier and method

A high speed communication apparatus with means for reducing timing uncertainty providing a high accuracy of transferring and receiving signals by intelligent skew calibration of the apparatus. The system for reducing timing uncertainty of a communication apparatus comprises a plurality of driving registers for transmitting signals; a plurality of receiving registers for receiving signals; a main clock for generating a main clock signal; a reference clock for generating reference signals for calibrating the registers; and a plurality of phase shift means comprising at least one set of phase shift means associated with each said plurality of registers, for the relative alignment of the register's timing within each plurality. The apparatus preferably further comprises a storage means for recording and storing information on skew in a communication media, for at least one data pattern transmitted through the transmission line and a plurality of adjustment means for generating and applying a correction to the timing position of a signal transition between two logical levels, the correction being generated on the basis of the information stored in the storage means, so as to compensate the above skew.

Skew calibration means and a method of skew calibration

The present invention relates to a transmitter for high speed communication systems, comprising a plurality, preferably two, drivers each having series terminating resistor, wherein the series terminating resistors are joined at the transmission line. The drivers are controlled in two modes. In the first mode, a control unit supplies drivers with a signal which is a function of input data, to provide the transmitter drives a communication line with an output impedance equal to the parallel effect of all the terminating resistors. In the second mode, the control unit generates a signal to make the drivers with respective series terminating resistors acting as a parallel termination circuit. No actual data is transmitted in this mode. In a preferable embodiment, to achieve this, one driver or a group of drivers drives one logic level signal, while the other drivers drives the inverse to this signal.

Transmitter with active differential termination

A transmission system and method for transmission of digital data with impedance matching at the terminal ends reduces reflected signals due to impedance mismatch at the terminating ends and due to impedance transition areas in the transmission line. The transmission system includes a transmission line having a driver end connected to a driving circuit and a receiving end connected to a receiving circuit, each said end having an adjustable termination means connected thereto On the driver end of the transmission line said adjustable termination means is incorporated in the driving circuit, while on the receiver end of the transmission line said adjustable termination means is connected in parallel with the receiving circuit. Thus, both the reflections produced on the ends of a transmission line and the reflections resulting from discontinuities within a transmission line will be terminated.

Data transmission system, circuit and method

A high precision receiver with a means to reduce or compensate the skew caused by the receiver's hysteresis by using a dynamic reference that is varied depending on a current output signal. To avoid oscillation, the reference signal can be switched over with a certain delay.

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St. Petersburg, Russia

Vasily Grigorievich Atyunin