Overview
A high performance, high-speed SERDES IP called USB3.1Type-C PHY is created for semiconductors that provide high bandwidth data connection while using less power. A specific design for USB 3.1 type-C applications is the USB 3.1Type-C PHY IP. A dedicated PCS can be provided together with the USB 3.1 Type C PHY IP to complete functionality of various applications, including elastic buffer, scramble/de-scramble, data encoding/decoding, PRBS generation/checking, registers control and testing. Depending on the customer's choice, PCS is offered as either a hard or soft macro; additionally, the PCS specification will be made available separately. Using a test bench constructed in Verilog HDL, the NC-Verilog simulation software verifies PHY functionality.
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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.
