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US 2023/0412281 A1Published application
Optical connectivity for interconnect technologies
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorDebendra Das Sharma
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Abstract
Optical connectivity for interconnects are described. A method includes determining an optical interconnect supports a defined optical mode, decoding electrical signals from an electrical interconnect, the electrical signals to represent a number of bits from one or more messages, converting the electrical signals to optical signals for the optical interconnect, and mapping the decoded bits to one or more optical channels of the optical interconnect. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
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A method, comprising:
- determining an optical interconnect supports a defined optical mode;
- decoding electrical signals from an electrical interconnect, the electrical signals to represent a number of bits from one or more messages;
- converting the electrical signals to optical signals for the optical interconnect;
- and
- mapping the decoded bits to one or more optical channels of the optical interconnect.
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An optical retimer, comprising:
- an electronic integrated circuit (EIC) to process electrical signals for an electrical interconnect;
- a photonics integrate circuit (PIC) communicatively coupled to the EIC, the PIC to process optical signals for an optical interconnect;
- and
- logic circuitry communicatively coupled to the EIC and the PIC, the logic circuitry to:
- determine the optical interconnect supports a defined optical mode;
- decode electrical signals from the electrical interconnect, the electrical signals to represent a number of bits from one or more messages;
- and
- instruct the EIC and the PIC to convert the electrical signals to optical signals for the optical interconnect, and map the decoded bits to one or more optical channels of the optical interconnect.
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A system, comprising:
- a first system-on-a-chip (SoC);
- a first electrical interconnect communicatively coupled to the first SoC;
- an optical interconnect;
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- a first optical retimer communicatively coupled to the first electrical interconnect and the optical interconnect, the optical retimer to determine the optical interconnect supports a defined optical mode, decode electrical signals from the electrical interconnect, the electrical signals to represent a number of bits from one or more messages from the first SoC, convert the electrical signals to optical signals for the optical interconnect, and map the decoded bits from the first electrical interconnect to one or more optical channels of the optical interconnect.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.