Patents Represented by Attorney T. Gary Gowling, Strathy & Henderson O'Neill
  • Patent number: 6016086
    Abstract: A bus for high signal quality interconnections, comprising means for producing at least one common mode reflection, often for differential transmission line interconnections. Also, a bus for high signal quality interconnections further comprising means for under-damping the signal and/or reducing the common mode noise. In both cases the means are at least one impedance termination. To produce common mode reflections, there are non-contact couplers terminated by short and open circuits, which cause the reflections from via connectors and other like impedance discontinuities to be re-reflected in common mode so that they are rejected by a differential receiver. To produce under-damping of the signal and/or a reduction of the common mode noise, capacitive terminations are used. The under-damping of the signal sharpens in the falling edge of the coupler pulses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2000
    Assignee: Nortel Networks Corporation
    Inventors: John M. Williamson, Alexandre J. Guterman, Robert Zani, Terry Newell, Anthony K. Dale Brown