Board, optical module, OLT, and information processing method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11558118-B2
Application number	US-202117244298-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 29, 2021
Priority date	Oct 31, 2018
Publication date	Jan 17, 2023
Grant date	Jan 17, 2023

Abstract

Embodiments of this application disclose a board, an optical module, a MAC chip, a DSP, and an information processing method. The board in the embodiments of this application includes a media access control (MAC) chip, a digital signal processor (DSP), and an equalizer. The MAC chip is configured to send first information to the DSP at an optical network unit (ONU) online stage, where the first information includes a first ONU identifier. The DSP is configured to receive the first information, and determine a first reference equalization parameter, where the first reference equalization parameter is related to the first ONU identifier. The DSP is further configured to set an equalization parameter of the equalizer to the first reference equalization parameter.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A board, wherein the board comprises:
a media access control (MAC) chip, a digital signal processor (DSP), and an equalizer; wherein
the MAC chip is configured to send first information to the DSP at an optical network unit (ONU) online stage, wherein the first information comprises a first ONU identifier;
the DSP is configured to receive the first information, and determine a first reference equalization parameter, wherein the first reference equalization parameter is related to the first ONU identifier; and
the DSP is further configured to set an equalization parameter of the equalizer to the first reference equalization parameter.

2. The board according to claim 1 , wherein the first information comprises an information field, and the information field comprises the first ONU identifier.

3. The board according to claim 2 , wherein the DSP is configured to set the equalization parameter of the equalizer to the first reference equalization parameter after receiving the first information and before an upstream optical signal corresponding to the first ONU identifier arrives.

4. The board according to claim 2 , wherein the first information further comprises a demarcation field, a start field, and an end field.

5. The board according to claim 1 , wherein the first information comprises an information field, the information field comprises at least one piece of time sequence information, the at least one piece of time sequence information comprises first time sequence information, and the first time sequence information is used to indicate a correspondence between the first ONU identifier and a first upstream transmission time.

6. The board according to claim 5 , wherein the DSP is configured to determine the first reference equalization parameter corresponding to the first ONU identifier, and set the equalization parameter of the equalizer to the first reference equalization parameter before the first upstream transmission time.

7. The board according to claim 1 , further comprising a rate selection (RATE_SEL) pin, wherein
that the MAC chip sends the first information to the DSP at the ONU online stage comprises:
sending, by the MAC chip, the first information to the DSP through the RATE_SEL pin at the ONU online stage.

8. The board according to claim 1 , wherein the board further comprises a transimpedance amplifier (TIA), the DSP is connected to the TIA, and the DSP is further configured to send a reset signal to the TIA.

9. The board according to claim 8 , wherein there are at least two TIAs, and the TIAs comprise a 50G passive optical network PON TIA and a 10G PON TIA.

10. The board according to claim 9 , wherein the first information further comprises a rate field, and the rate field is used to indicate whether to send the reset signal to the 50G PON TIA or the 10G PON TIA.

11. The board according to claim 10 , further comprising:
two reset pins, wherein the MAC chip sends two differential clock signals to the DSP through the two reset pins.

12. The board according to claim 1 , wherein
the DSP is further configured to store a correspondence group, wherein the correspondence group comprises at least a correspondence between the first ONU identifier and the first reference equalization parameter; and
that the DSP determines the first reference equalization parameter comprises: searching, by the DSP, the correspondence group for the first reference equalization parameter corresponding to the first ONU identifier.

13. The board according to claim 12 , wherein
the equalizer is further configured to perform convergence at an ONU registration stage to obtain the first reference equalization parameter;
the MAC chip is further configured to allocate, at the ONU registration stage, the first ONU identifier to an ONU that is online, and send the first ONU identifier to the DSP; and
the DSP stores the correspondence between the first ONU identifier and the first reference equalization parameter.

14. The board according to claim 1 , wherein
the equalizer is further configured to: after the DSP sets the equalization parameter of the equalizer to the first reference equalization parameter, perform convergence on the first reference equalization parameter to obtain a second reference equalization parameter; and
the DSP is further configured to set the equalization parameter of the equalizer to the second reference equalization parameter.

15. The board according to claim 1 , wherein the board further comprises an optical module, and the DSP and the equalizer are integrated in the optical module; or the DSP is integrated with the MAC chip; or the equalizer is integrated in the DSP, and the DSP is integrated in the optical module.

16. An optical line terminal (OLT), wherein the OLT comprises the board according to claim 1 .

17. An information processing method, comprising:
sending, by a MAC chip, first information to a DSP at an ONU online stage, wherein the first information comprises a first ONU identifier;
receiving, by the DSP, the first information, and determining a first reference equalization parameter, wherein the first reference equalization parameter is related to the first ONU identifier; and
setting an equalization parameter of an equalizer to the first reference equalization parameter.

18. The method according to claim 17 , wherein the first information comprises an information field, and the information field comprises the first ONU identifier.

19. The method according to claim 18 , wherein the DSP is configured to set the equalization parameter of the equalizer to the first reference equalization parameter after receiving the first information and before an upstream optical signal corresponding to the first ONU identifier arrives.

20. The method according to claim 17 , wherein the method further comprises:
storing, by the DSP, a correspondence group, wherein the correspondence group comprises at least a correspondence between the first ONU identifier and the first reference equalization parameter; and
the determining, by the DSP, a first reference equalization parameter comprises:
searching, by the DSP, the correspondence group for the first reference equalization parameter corresponding to the first ONU identifier.

Assignees

• Huawei Tech Co Ltd

Inventors

• Zhou Lei
• Nie Shiwei
• Li Shengping
• Gao Bo

Classifications

• H04L25/03878

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• H04B10/27 Primary

  Arrangements for networking · CPC title

• H04Q11/0067

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• H04Q2011/0064

  Arbitration, scheduling or medium access control aspects · CPC title

• H04J2203/0046

  User Network Interface · CPC title