Patent ID: 9621273
Date: 2017-04-11
CPC Classifications: H04B,H04J,H04L

Claim:
1. A system comprising an integrated system-on-chip device, the system 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; a driver module provided on the silicon substrate member and coupled to the signal processing block; 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 coupled to 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 coupled to the silicon substrate member and operably coupled to the input/output block, the signal processing block; a communication interface coupled to the communication block; and a control block coupled to the communication block, the driver module, and the receiver module via the communication interface, 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.