US 2014/0273833 A1 · PHYSICAL LAYER ADAPTED FOR EHF CONTACTLESS COMMUNICATION

Abstract

A Physical Layer (PHY) of a host system of an electronic device may be implemented as a contactless PHY (Host-cPHY) for extremely high frequency (EHF) contactless communication and the operation of EHF transmitters (TX), receivers (RX) and transceivers (EHF-XCVR) in an extremely high frequency integrated circuit (EHF IC) of the electronic device. The Host-cPHY translates logical communications requests from the Link Layer (LINK) into hardware-specific operations to affect transmission or reception of signals over an EHF contactless link). The Link Layer (LINK) may also be optimized as a contactless Link Layer (cLINK) for EHF contactless communication. Multiple data streams may be transported over the EHF contactless link over a range of frequencies.

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Dependent claims

A first electronic device comprising:

a host system comprising a Physical Layer (PHY) and a Link Layer (LINK);
and
an EHF contactless EHF IC comprising at least one transceiver (EHF-XCVR) and capable of communicating over a contactless link with a second electronic device;
characterized by:
the PHY comprises a first contactless Physical Layer (Host-cPHY) which communicates with the EHF IC for at least one of transmitting and receiving signals over the contactless link.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Physical layer adapted for ehf contactless communication

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Abstract

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