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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 25, 2019
Filed:
May. 30, 2018
Nvidia Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Dennis Ma, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Marvin Denman, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Eric Tyson, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Stephen D. Glaser, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Nvidia Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A transmitter for a high speed serial communications link, a serial communications link, and a receiver for a high speed serial communications link are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, the transmitter includes: (1) a communications interface connected to a transmission medium having multiple lanes, and (2) a safe mode circuit coupled to the communications interface and configured to send data over the transmission medium in a safe mode, wherein in the safe mode at least one of the lanes is dedicated to transmitting a link detect signal for link detection.