Patent ID: 7715420

Claim:
A method for biasing receiver circuits within an integrated circuit, the method comprising: identifying n receiver circuits within the integrated circuit to be biased; providing n+m integrated communication channels between n drivers and n receivers, wherein a communication channel includes a DC-balanced wire that communicates a signal between a driver and a receiver, wherein m is a number of additional integrated communication channels, and wherein m>0; coupling the n+m integrated communication channels to the n drivers, wherein each of the n drivers can be selectively coupled to m+1 integrated communication channels; coupling the n+m integrated communication channels to the n receivers, wherein each of the n receivers can be selectively coupled to m+1 integrated communication channels; wherein the integrated communication channels are coupled so that n of the integrated communication channels are active and m of the integrated communication channels are inactive; and refreshing the m inactive integrated communication channels' biases while the m inactive integrated communication channels are not communicating signals.