Integrated Circuit and Associated Apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016246752-A1
Application number	US-201414434535-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Mar 4, 2014
Priority date	Mar 4, 2014
Publication date	Aug 25, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

The present invention provides integrated circuit and apparatus having USB connector; the integrated circuit includes a signaling circuit and an interface for relaying signal between the USB connector and the signaling circuit, wherein an interconnect scheme of the signaling circuit is different from USB interconnect defined by USB specification; for example, a frequency adopted for signaling can be programmable, be lower than wireless band and/or be different from a frequency of USB SuperSpeed interconnect.

First claim

1 . An integrated circuit comprising:
a signaling circuit for signaling with a signal; and an interface coupled to the signaling circuit, for relaying the signal between a Universal Serial Bus (USB) connector and the signaling circuit; wherein a frequency of the signal is lower than a frequency of a wireless band.

2 . The integrated circuit of claim 1 , wherein the wireless band is allocated for satellite positioning.

3 . The integrated circuit of claim 1 , wherein the wireless band is ISM (Industrial, Scientific and Medical) band.

4 . The integrated circuit of claim 1 , wherein the wireless band is allocated for mobile telecommunication.

5 . The integrated circuit of claim 1 , wherein the wireless band is allocated for WiFi.

6 . The integrated circuit of claim 1 , wherein the interface is arranged to relay the signal between a number of SuperSpeed pins of the USB connector and the signaling circuit.

7 . An integrated circuit comprising:
a signaling circuit for signaling under a predetermined interconnect scheme which rules manner of signal connection and communication; and an interface coupled to the signaling circuit, for relaying signal between a USB connector and the signaling circuit; wherein the predetermined interconnect scheme is incompatible with USB interconnect defined by USB specification.

8 . An integrated circuit comprising:
a signaling circuit for signaling with a programmable frequency, and an interface coupled to the signaling circuit, for interfacing the signaling circuit with a USB connector; wherein the signaling circuit is further arranged to program the programmable frequency of signaling to be different from a frequency of USB interconnect.

9 . The integrated circuit of claim 8 , wherein the frequency of USB interconnect is a frequency of USB SuperSpeed interconnect.

10 . An apparatus comprising:
a USB connector; and a signaling circuit for signaling via the USB connector; wherein a manner in which the signaling circuit signals is different from that defined by USB specification.

11 . The apparatus of claim 10 , wherein the signaling circuit is arranged to signal with a frequency different from that used by USB specification.

Assignees

• Mediatek Inc

Inventors

• Luo Yan-Bin

Classifications

• H04W72/541

  using the level of interference · CPC title

• G06F13/4282 Primary

  on a serial bus, e.g. I2C bus, SPI bus (on daisy chain buses G06F13/4247) · CPC title

• H04L67/12

  specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks · CPC title

• H04L1/205

  jitter monitoring · CPC title

• G06F13/385 Primary

  for adaptation of a particular data processing system to different peripheral devices · CPC title