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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 19, 2002
Filed:
Aug. 27, 1999
Frank Gasparik, Monument, CO (US);
LSI Logic Corporation, Milpitas, CA (US);
Abstract
A method of compensating for initial signal interference exhibited by a differential transmission line includes the step of determining whether the differential transmission line has been at a first differential voltage state for at least a first predetermined time period. The method also includes the step of transmitting a first data bit across the differential transmission line by impressing a first differential voltage having a first magnitude upon the differential voltage line in order to drive the differential transmission line from the first differential voltage state to a second differential voltage state if the determining step determines that the differential transmission line has not been at the first differential voltage state for at least the first predetermined time period. Another step of the method includes transmitting the first data bit upon the differential transmission line by impressing upon the differential voltage line a second differential voltage having a second magnitude larger than the first magnitude in order to drive the differential transmission line from the first differential voltage state to a second differential voltage state if the determining step determines that the differential transmission line has been at the first differential voltage state for at least the first predetermined time period. Apparatus for compensating for initial signal interference exhibited by a differential transmission line are also disclosed.