US Patent Issued to Synopsys on Sept. 8 for "High-speed octal-rate wireline transmitters" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,190, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Synopsys Inc (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"High-speed octal-rate wireline transmitters" was invented by Dirk Pfaff (Ottawa), Noman Hai (Mississauga, Canada), Tom Eeckelaert (Kanata, Canada) and Muhammad Ahmed Nummer (Kanata, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transmitter includes a multiplexer configured to receive and process an N-bit data stream, where N is an even number. The multiplexer includes N pulse generator circuits that generate N pulse signals in N different phases of a duty cycle. The transmitter further includes a driver and an output pad connected to an output of the driver, serving...