Overview
The multi-protocol SerDes PHY includes Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) conforming with PCIe 2.0 Base Specification with support for PIPE interface spec, Universal Serial Bus (USB) compliant with USB 3.0, USB 2.0 (USB High-speed and Full speed), and Serial ATA (SATA) consistent with SATA 3.0 Specification. Because inbuilt power gating control, reference clock control, and more PLL control are supported, lower power consumption is made possible. Additionally, the PHY is broadly usable for diverse circumstances under varying considerations of power consumption because the aforementioned low
power mode option is customizable.
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It is very important that the design aspects of the NB-IoT device protocol stack ensure low module cost and low energy consumption. This is required to match the industry expected module costs. This paper outlines some of the NB-IoT Protocol stack specification flexibilities and generic design aspects that are to be considered to meet the above requirements, especially with reference to LTE.