Patent ID: 11894847
Assignee: MELLANOX TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.
Field: Basic communication processes (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A chip-to-chip (C2C) transmitter comprising:
an output driver to receive an input signal and output an intermediate signal corresponding to the input signal on an output node, wherein the input signal comprises a first signal swing corresponding to a supply voltage of the output driver;
an attenuator coupled to the output node of the output driver, the attenuator to receive the intermediate signal and output an output signal, wherein the output signal comprises a second signal swing that is less than the first signal swing; and
a duty cycle correction (DCC) loop coupled to the output node of the output driver, the DCC loop to sample the intermediate signal at the output node of the output driver to estimate and correct for duty cycle distortion (DCD) at the output node, wherein the attenuator is a passive continuous-time linear equalization (CTLE) circuit.