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- Patent Title: Circuit for determining whether an actual transmission was received in a low-voltage differential sensing receiver
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Application No.: US15812086Application Date: 2017-11-14
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Publication No.: US10917129B2Publication Date: 2021-02-09
- Inventor: Prashant Singh
- Applicant: STMicroelectronics International N.V.
- Applicant Address: NL Schiphol
- Assignee: STMicroelectronics International N.V.
- Current Assignee: STMicroelectronics International N.V.
- Current Assignee Address: NL Schiphol
- Agency: Crowe & Dunlevy
- Main IPC: H04B1/10
- IPC: H04B1/10 ; H03K5/24 ; H03K19/20 ; H03K3/027 ; H03K19/0185 ; H03H11/04 ; H04L25/02 ; H03H11/12

Abstract:
A circuit has a first window comparator determining whether a signal at a first input has a voltage higher than a first threshold but lower than a second threshold, and a second window comparator determining whether a signal at a second input has a voltage higher than the first threshold but lower than the second threshold. A logic circuit generates pulses in response to either the first window comparator determining that the signal at the first differential input has a voltage higher than the first threshold but lower than the second threshold or the second window comparator determining that the signal at the second input has a voltage higher than the first threshold but lower than the second threshold. A filter circuit receives the pulses from the logic circuit and generates a flag indicating that the signal is invalid, based upon pulses received from the logic circuit.
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