Power line carriers (PLCs) are susceptible to transients and electromagnetic interference (EMI) on the power line. To address transients and EMI on the power line, an improved power PLC involves transmitting a signal over the power line using a controlled current source, where the current source is modulated by the signal. The current source output is designed to be independent of the voltage on the power line and the load, and thus, is less susceptible to transients and EMI on the power line. The system architecture of the improved PLC also allows for simple, predictable, and flexible termination. In an example implementation in the automotive industry, the improved high frequency PLC may provide a low cost replacement for existing communication interfaces. The improved PLC may consolidate system in-vehicle communication, reduce in-vehicle wiring, provide system flexibility, and decrease vehicle weight and system cost.

The present invention provides a semiconductor device realizing suppression of increase in consumption power. A semiconductor device has a signal line, a reception buffer circuit which is coupled to an end of the signal line and to which a signal is supplied from the signal line, and a delay element which is wired-OR coupled to an end of the signal line and shapes a waveform of a signal at the end of the signal line.

The disclosed embodiments relate to the design of an equalizer that uses both cross-coupled cascodes and inductive peaking to reduce distortion in a signal received from a communication channel by attenuating lower frequencies and amplifying higher frequencies. At lower frequencies, when the effects of inductive impedance within the equalizer are negligible, the equalizer essentially functions as a traditional cascode amplifier that presents high gain. At higher frequencies, the increases in inductive impedances within the equalizer act to boost a gain of the equalizer.

The present invention provides a preamble sequence sending and receiving method and apparatus, and a system. The preamble sequence sending method includes: generating, by a transmit end, a frequency offset estimation sequence, where the frequency offset estimation sequence includes N subsequences each with a length of M, N is a positive integer greater than or equal to 2, and M is a positive integer; generating, by the transmit end, a prefix and a suffix based on the frequency offset estimation sequence; adding, by the transmit end, the prefix and the suffix before and after the frequency offset estimation sequence respectively to form a preamble sequence, where the prefix and the suffix are used for canceling multipath interference; and adding, by the transmit end, the preamble sequence to a data packet and sending the data packet to a receive end.

The method includes transmitting by a first remote communication unit an upstream symbol with a first structure onto a first communication line at a reference time point t.sub.rf, wherein the reference time point t.sub.rf is determined based on a time of reception of a downstream symbol with the first structure t.sub.FDX_DS_RX and a first propagation delay over the first communication line t.sub.PD1, as t.sub.rf=t.sub.FDX_DS_RX−t.sub.PD1; transmitting by a second remote communication unit an upstream symbol with a second structure onto the second communication line at t.sub.TDD_US_TX=t.sub.rf−t.sub.PD2 during a time interval assigned for upstream transmission on the second communication line, wherein t.sub.PD2 is a second propagation delay over the second communication line, so that the upstream symbol with the second structure transmitted by the second remote communication unit arrives at the access node at the reference time point t.sub.rf.

A pair of ground planes arranged in parallel, a dielectric medium disposed in between the pair of ground planes, and a set of at least four signal conductors disposed in the dielectric medium, the set of at least four signal conductors having (i) a first pair of signal conductors arranged proximate to a first ground plane of the pair of ground planes and (ii) a second pair of signal conductors arranged proximate to a second ground plane of the pair of ground planes, each signal conductor of the set of at least four signal conductors configured to carry a respective signal corresponding to a symbol of a codeword of a vector signaling code.

Methods and systems are described for obtaining a plurality of information bits, and responsively partitioning the obtained plurality of information bits into a plurality of subsets of information bits, generating a plurality of streams of forward error correction (FEC)-encoded bits using a plurality of FEC encoders receiving respective subsets of the plurality of subsets of information bits, providing the plurality of streams of FEC-encoded bits to a plurality of sub-channel encoders, each sub-channel encoder receiving a respective stream of FEC-encoded bits from a different FEC encoder of the plurality of FEC encoders for generating a set of codewords of a vector signaling code, and wherein sequential streams of FEC-encoded bits from a given FEC encoder are provided to different sub-channel encoders for each successively generated set of codewords, and transmitting the successively generated sets of codewords of the vector signaling code over a multi-wire bus.

Methods and systems are described for receiving a plurality of signals corresponding to symbols of a codeword on a plurality of wires of a multi-wire bus, and responsively generating a plurality of sub-channel outputs using a plurality of multi-input comparators (MICs) connected to the plurality of wires of the multi-wire bus, generating a plurality of wire-specific skew control signals, each wire-specific skew control signal of the plurality of wire-specific skew control signals generated by combining (i) one or more sub-channel specific skew measurement signals associated with corresponding sub-channel outputs undergoing a transition and (ii) a corresponding wire-specific transition delta, and providing the plurality of wire-specific skew control signals to respective wire-skew control elements to adjust wire-specific skew.

A method for mitigating interference across analog signal lines includes receiving a digital data stream including a plurality of discrete signal patterns configured to drive a plurality of different analog signal lines. An edge buffer for each analog signal line is populated with edge data representing pulse edges of upcoming signal patterns set to drive the analog signal line. A target buffer for a target signal line is populated with target data representing a target signal pattern. Edge buffers corresponding to potentially interfering analog signal lines are searched to identify potentially interfering pulse edges. A set of potentially interfering pulse edges are selected for interference mitigation, and the target signal pattern is modified to perform preemptive interference mitigation based at least in part on the selected pulse edges.

In a system for wirelessly transmitting electric power and data, communication quality is improved. A transfer module is for use as a power transmitting module or a power receiving module in a wireless power/data transfer apparatus that wirelessly transmits electric power and data between a power transmitting module and a power receiving module. The transfer module includes: an antenna that performs power transmission or power reception via magnetic field coupling or electric field coupling; a differential transmission line pair to perform transmission or reception via electric field coupling; and a shielding part being located between the antenna and the differential transmission line pair to reduce electromagnetic interference between the antenna and the differential transmission line pair.