Encoding and deserialization-serialization for digital signals
First Claim
1. An apparatus comprising:
- a plurality of conductive interconnects; and
a first cable receptacle comprising;
a first housing;
a first receptacle interface coupleable to an interface of a first device;
a deserializer configured to generate a first plurality of parallel digital signals based on an input serialized digital signal; and
a serializer configured to generate an output serialized digital signal based on a second plurality of parallel digital signals, wherein the second plurality of parallel digital signals is based on the first plurality of parallel digital signals.
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Abstract
Transmit-side active signal management circuitry applies one or more active signal management processes to a digital signal at a transmit side of an interconnect. At the receive side of the interconnect, receive-side active signal management circuitry applies one or more corresponding active signal management processes, as appropriate, to the received digital signal to recover the information represented by the original digital signal. The interconnect can include a cable used to transmit the signals between a source device and a destination device, whereby one or both of the transmit-side active signal management circuitry and the receive-side active signal management circuitry is implemented at a corresponding cable receptacle of the cable. Alternately, one or both of the transmit-side active signal management circuitry and the receive-side active signal management circuitry can be implemented at a cable adaptor, thereby permitting the use of a passive cable interconnect to transmit the signal.
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30 Claims
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1. An apparatus comprising:
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a plurality of conductive interconnects; and a first cable receptacle comprising; a first housing; a first receptacle interface coupleable to an interface of a first device; a deserializer configured to generate a first plurality of parallel digital signals based on an input serialized digital signal; and a serializer configured to generate an output serialized digital signal based on a second plurality of parallel digital signals, wherein the second plurality of parallel digital signals is based on the first plurality of parallel digital signals. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A method comprising:
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receiving, at a cable receptacle of a cable assembly, a first serialized digital signal; deserializing, at the cable receptacle, the first serialized digital signal to generate a first plurality of parallel digital signals; and serializing, at the cable receptacle, a second plurality of parallel digital signals to generate a second serialized digital signal, wherein the second plurality of parallel digital signals is based on the first set of parallel digital signals. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. An apparatus comprising:
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a transition minimized differential signaling (TMDS) decoder comprising an input configured to receive a first TMDS encoded signal and an output configured to provide a first TMDS decoded signal based on the first TMDS encoded signal; an electromagnetic interference (EMI) encoder/decoder comprising an input configured to receive the first TMDS decoded signal and an output configured to provide a second TMDS decoded signal, wherein the EMI encoder is configured to generate the second TMDS decoded signal based on the first TMDS decoded signal and a digital noise signal; and a TMDS encoder comprising an input configured to receive the second TMDS decoded signal and an output configured to provide a second TMDS encoded signal based on the second TMDS decoded signal. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23)
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24. A method comprising:
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receiving a first transition minimized digital signaling (TMDS) encoded signal; decoding the first TMDS encoded signal to generate a first TMDS decoded signal; modifying the first TMDS decoded signal based on a digital noise signal to generate a second TMDS decoded signal; and encoding the second TMDS decoded signal to generate a second TMDS encoded signal. - View Dependent Claims (25)
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26. A cable apparatus comprising:
a first cable receptacle comprising; a first receptacle interface couplable to an interface of a first device; and a first port configured to receive a first transitional minimized differential signal (TMDS) encoded digital signal; a second port configured to provide a second TMDS encoded signal based on the first TMDS encoded digital signal; a first TMDS decoder comprising an input configured to receive a third TMDS encoded signal and an output configured to provide a first TMDS decoded signal based on the third TMDS encoded signal, wherein the third TMDS encoded signal is based on the first TMDS encoded signal; a first EMI encoder comprising an input configured to receive the first TMDS decoded signal and an output configured to provide a second TMDS decoded signal, wherein the first EMI encoder is configured to generate the second TMDS decoded signal based on the first TMDS decoded signal and a first digital noise signal; and a first TMDS encoder comprising an input configured to receive the second TMDS decoded signal and an output configured to provide a fourth TMDS encoded signal based on the second TMDS decoded signal, wherein the second TMDS encoded signal is based on the fourth TMDS encoded signal. - View Dependent Claims (27, 28, 29, 30)
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