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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 10, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 16, 2015
Applicant:
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Inventors:
Charles Michael Campbell, Wylie, TX (US);
Richard Edwin Hubbard, Allen, TX (US);
Sreeraman Anantharaman, Cupertino, CA (US);
Assignee:
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED, Dallas, TX (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/42 (2006.01); G06F 13/40 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/4286 (2013.01); G06F 13/4081 (2013.01); Y02B 60/1228 (2013.01); Y02B 60/1235 (2013.01);
Abstract
In a segmented data path, a source is able to 'discover' whether any tunable repeater nodes are present. When one or more tunable repeaters are discovered, the source may adjust its link initialization sequence accordingly to train each 'hop' individually and thereafter individually configure each intermediary repeater.