Full-duplex driver with hybrid adaptation

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9419779-B2
Application number	US-201314038928-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 27, 2013
Priority date	Sep 6, 2013
Publication date	Aug 16, 2016
Grant date	Aug 16, 2016

Abstract

A system includes a full-duplex driver to drive signals on a load. A hybrid element connected with the full-duplex driver controls a flow of transmission and receipt of the signals. A gain control element connected with the full-duplex driver tunes a transconductance of the full-duplex driver to match an impedance of the load. The controlled gain is based on a leakage voltage value of the full-duplex driver.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A system, comprising:
a full-duplex driver including a closed-loop transconductor;
an extraction element connected with the full-duplex driver, the extraction element configured to determine a transmitter voltage of the full-duplex driver;
a hybrid element connected as a feedback impedance of the full-duplex driver, the hybrid element including a hybrid voltage tapped from the feedback impedance;
a correlation element, the correlation element configured to determine a polarity of a hybrid leakage voltage based on the hybrid voltage and the transmitter voltage; and
an integrator, the integrator configured to determine a value of the hybrid leakage voltage, the value of the hybrid leakage voltage and the polarity of the hybrid leakage voltage being used to tune a transconductance of the full-duplex driver to drive the hybrid leakage voltage towards zero.

2. The system of claim 1 , where the integrator comprises a counter.

3. The system of claim 2 , where most significant bits of the counter are inputted to the full-duplex driver to tune the transconductance of the full-duplex driver.

4. The system of claim 1 , further comprising an impedance element connected to an input of the full-duplex driver, and configured to attenuate an input signal swing.

5. The system of claim 1 , where a gain of the full-duplex driver is controlled to match an output impedance to a load connected with the full-duplex driver.

6. The system of claim 5 , where the impedance is at least one of a line impedance and a link partner impedance.

7. The system of claim 1 , further comprising a capacitor connected with the hybrid element, the capacitor to reduce a bandwidth effect on the hybrid leakage at high frequencies.

8. The system of claim 1 , where the correlation element comprises an exclusive-or gate.

9. The system of claim 1 , where the extraction element comprises a difference amplifier.

10. The system of claim 9 , where the difference amplifier is configured to receive input voltage of the full-duplex driver and an output voltage of the full-duplex driver.

11. A system, comprising:
a full-duplex driver to drive signals on a load;
a hybrid element connected with the full-duplex driver, the hybrid element configured to control a transconductance of the full duplex driver with a feedback control signal; and
a gain control element connected with the full-duplex driver and the hybrid element, the gain control element configured to adjust a gain of the full-duplex driver to match an output impedance of the full-duplex driver to an impedance of the load based on the feedback control signal received from the hybrid element, where control of the gain with the feedback control signal is based on a hybrid leakage voltage of the hybrid element determined as a function of the transmitter voltage of the full duplex driver.

12. The system of claim 11 , where the gain control element comprises an echo canceller, the echo canceller configured to send a signal representing the hybrid leakage voltage to the full-duplex driver.

13. The system of claim 11 , where the gain control element comprises a counter, the counter configured to count a number of times a polarity of the transmitter voltage differs from a polarity of a hybrid voltage.

14. A system, comprising:
a full-duplex driver configured to drive signals on a load;
a hybrid element connected with the full-duplex driver, the hybrid element configured to control a flow of transmission and reception of the signals;
a gain control element connected with the full-duplex driver, the gain control element comprises a counter, the counter configured to count a number of times a polarity of a transmitter voltage differs from a polarity of a hybrid voltage, and the gain control element configured to adjust a gain of the full-duplex driver to match an output impedance to the load, where control of the gain is based on a hybrid leakage voltage of the hybrid element; and
an exclusive-or gate configured to correlate the polarity of the transmitter voltage with the polarity of the hybrid voltage.

15. The system of claim 11 , where the gain control element is configured to tune the transconductance of the full-duplex driver to drive the hybrid leakage voltage towards zero.

16. A method, comprising:
extracting a transmitter voltage of a full duplex driver included in a transceiver;
measuring a hybrid voltage tapped from a feedback impedance providing a hybrid output signal of the full duplex driver;
determining a hybrid leakage voltage of the transceiver based on the transmitter voltage of the full duplex driver included in the transceiver and the hybrid voltage; and
tuning a transconductance of the full-duplex driver based on the determined hybrid leakage voltage to vary an output impedance of the full duplex driver in accordance with load variations in a load of the transceiver.

17. The method of claim 16 , further comprising extracting the hybrid leakage voltage from the transmitter voltage and the hybrid voltage.

18. The method of claim 17 , further comprising performing correlation of the transmitter voltage and the hybrid voltage to extract a polarity of the hybrid leakage voltage.

19. The method of claim 16 , determining the hybrid leakage voltage from an echo canceller.

20. The method of claim 16 , where the tuning comprises driving the hybrid leakage voltage towards zero to match an impedance of the transceiver with the load, the load comprising at least one of a line and a link partner.

Assignees

• Broadcom Corp

Inventors

• Pan Hui
• Hammad Mostafa Mohammad Hany Ali
• Yao Yuan

Classifications

• H04L25/028

  Arrangements specific to the transmitter end · CPC title

• H04L25/0278

  Arrangements for impedance matching · CPC title

• H04B3/23 Primary

  using a replica of transmitted signal in the time domain, e.g. echo cancellers · CPC title

• H04L5/1415 Primary

  using control lines · CPC title