Patent ID: 9325422
Filing Date: 2016-04-26
CPC Classification: H04B,H04J,H04L

Claim Text:
1. An integrated system-on-chip device, the device comprising: a silicon substrate member; a data input/output interface provided on the silicon substrate member and configured for a predefined data rate and protocol; an input/output block provided on the silicon substrate member and coupled to the data input/output interface, the input/output block comprising a SerDes block, a CDR block, a compensation block, and an equalizer block; a signal processing block provided on the silicon substrate member and coupled to the input/output block using a bi-direction bus in an intermediary protocol; a driver module provided on the silicon substrate member and coupled to the signal processing block using a uni-directional multi-lane bus; a driver interface provided on the silicon substrate member and coupled to the driver module and configured to be coupled to a silicon photonics device, the driver interface being configured to transmit output data in an amplitude modulation format; a receiver module comprising a TIA block provided on the silicon substrate member and to be coupled to the silicon photonics device using predefined modulation format, and configured to the signal processing block to communicate information to the input/output block for transmission through the data input/output interface; a laser coupled to the silicon photonics device; a communication block provided on the silicon substrate member and operably coupled to the input/output block, the signal processing block, the driver module, and the receiver module; a communication interface coupled to the communication block; and a control block provided on the silicon substrate member and coupled to the communication block, the control block being configured to receive and send instruction(s) in a digital format to the communication block and being configured to receive and send signals in an analog format to communicate with the silicon photonics device; and wherein the amplified modulation format is a PAM format.