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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 16, 2014
Filed:
Jun. 15, 2012
Arch Zaliznyak, San Jose, CA (US);
Surinder Singh, San Jose, CA (US);
Arch Zaliznyak, San Jose, CA (US);
Surinder Singh, San Jose, CA (US);
Altera Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A high speed serial interface comprises a rectilinear array of rows and columns of contact sites on a substrate. In the first four columns, pairs of transmitter and receiver contacts alternate row-by-row with pairs of ground contacts In the fifth column, there is a permanent (or hard) ground contact adjacent to each transmitter or receiver contact pair located in a row in the third and fourth columns and the remaining contacts in the fifth column are general purpose input/output (GPIO) contacts. As a result, up to 50 percent of the contacts in the fifth column may be GPIO contacts. In the sixth column, all the contacts are GPIO contacts.