Patent ID: 8195990

Claim:
A proximity communication system, comprising: a first chip having: a plurality of transmit elements formed on a surface thereof, and a plurality of data transmitters formed in the first chip and driving corresponding transmit elements with data signals; a second chip juxtaposed to the first chip and having: a plurality of receive elements formed in a surface thereof, and a plurality of data receivers formed in the second chip receiving the data signals from corresponding receive elements, wherein each receive element is in at least partial alignment with a corresponding transmit element to form a communication link between the first chip and the second chip; and an alignment detector mechanism for determining a degree of alignment between at least one of the transmit elements and the corresponding receive element, and for using the determined degree of alignment to adjust the performance of the corresponding communication link in compensation for the degree of the alignment between the transmit element and the receive element; and wherein adjusting the performance of the corresponding communication link comprises turning off one or more of the transmitters associated with physically neighboring ones of the transmit elements.