Rejection of end-of-packet dribble in high speed universal serial bus repeaters

A Universal Serial Bus (USB) repeater, comprising:

• a first channel including a first receiver and a first transmitter, the first receiver having:
• differential inputs;
• a first amplifier stage, having first and second inputs coupled to the differential inputs, and having first and second outputs;
• a hysteresis stage having a first input, a second input, a first output and a second output wherein the first and second outputs are coupled to the first and second outputs of the first amplifier stage respectively;
• and
• a second amplifier stage having inputs coupled to the first and second outputs of the first amplifier stage, and having outputs coupled to first and second differential outputs of the first receiver, the first and second differential outputs of the first receiver coupled to differential inputs of the first transmitter;
• and
• a second channel including a second receiver having differential inputs coupled to the differential outputs of the first transmitter and having first and second differential outputs, and a second transmitter having differential inputs coupled to the first and second differential outputs of the second receiver and having differential outputs;
• wherein the first output of the second receiver is coupled to the first input of the hysteresis stage of the first receiver, and the second output of the second receiver is coupled to the second input of the hysteresis stage of the first receiver.