Patent ID: 8441300
Filing Date: 2013-05-14
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A server device comprising: a first board; a second board connected to the first board by a transfer path; a signal output circuit provided to the first board and outputting signals from the first board to the second board as voltage amplitude; an amplitude correcting circuit having a plurality of stages connected to an output of the signal output circuit and performing a waveform shaping of the voltage amplitude; and a control circuit performing training of the amplitude correcting circuit, wherein the control circuit disables operation of a stage which is unnecessary in the waveform shaping according to a result of the training among the plurality of stages of the amplitude correction circuit, wherein the amplitude correcting circuit has a respective flip-flop circuit latching the signals at each stage, the amplitude correcting circuit is operated in accordance with an output of the flip-flop circuit which is included in each of the stages, the server device disables operation of the flip-flop circuit at the stage unnecessary in the waveform shaping, wherein the signal output circuit includes a CML circuit generating the voltage amplitude, the amplitude correcting circuit has a respective CML circuit at each of the stages and to which an output signal of the corresponding flip-flop circuit is supplied, and the CML circuit of the signal output circuit and the CML circuits of the amplitude correcting circuit are short-circuited at an output point of each of differential circuits and connected to common load resistors.