Patent ID: 7693424

Claim:
An apparatus that facilitates high-speed data transfer between integrated circuit chips, comprising: a first integrated circuit chip, wherein the first integrated circuit chip includes: a remateable capacitive receiver which receives a capacitively coupled voltage signal transmitted from a corresponding capacitive transmitter located on a second integrated circuit chip and converts the capacitively coupled voltage signal into an electrical signal; an electrical-to-optical transceiver which converts the electrical signal to an optical signal and transmits the optical signal to an optical device through remateable optical coupling; an optical-to-electrical transceiver which receives a second optical signal transmitted from the optical device through optical coupling and converts the second optical signal to a second electrical signal; and a capacitive transmitter which converts the second electrical signal into a second capacitively coupled voltage signal and transmits the second capacitively coupled voltage signal to a corresponding capacitive receiver located on a second integrated circuit chip.