SERIALIZED DATA LINK WITH ZERO-CYCLE OR SHORT-CYCLE PATHS
卷宗概要
发明人
Charles Walter BOECKER; Jin LIANG; Michael Raymond TROMBLEY; Eric Douglas GROEN; Ping LU; Simon S. LI; Shankar Srinivasa TANGIRALA; Roxanne VU; Ravi SHIVNARAINE
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CPC 分类
Systems and methods are disclosed for reduced-power serial data links. A clock-forwarded serial link carries a clock lane and one or more data lanes. Every active serial data cycle is accompanied by its own serial clock edge: a clock delay allows the same clock edge to drive data at a transmitter and latch data at a receiver. Power is saved by idling the serial clock when data is not being transmitted. A valid signal can be omitted, providing a space saving. At the destination, similar clock-forwarding and delay enables a single parallel clock edge to drive data to the boundary of its clock domain, e.g. from a deserializer to a FIFO. The data link exhibits zero-cycle entry and exit. Variations with half- or single-cycle entry or exit are disclosed.
原文（中文）
Systems and methods are disclosed for reduced-power serial data links. A clock-forwarded serial link carries a clock lane and one or more data lanes. Every active serial data cycle is accompanied by its own serial clock edge: a clock delay allows the same clock edge to drive data at a transmitter and latch data at a receiver. Power is saved by idling the serial clock when data is not being transmitted. A valid signal can be omitted, providing a space saving. At the destination, similar clock-forwarding and delay enables a single parallel clock edge to drive data to the boundary of its clock domain, e.g. from a deserializer to a FIFO. The data link exhibits zero-cycle entry and exit. Variations with half- or single-cycle entry or exit are disclosed.