Abstract:
In an electronic component including a two-way bus through which data elements travel between peripherals and a central processing unit at the rate of a clock signal, the central processing unit and at least one of the peripherals each includes a data encryption/decryption cell. Each data encryption/decryption cell uses the same secret key. The secret key is produced locally at each clock cycle in each cell from a random signal synchronous with the clock signal, and is applied to each of the cells by a one-way transmission line.
Abstract:
A device for the regeneration of a clock signal from an external serial bus includes a ring oscillator and counter. The ring oscillator provides n phases of a clock signal. Of these n phases, one phase is used as a reference and is applied to the counter. It is thus possible to count the number of entire reference clock signal periods between a first pulse and a second pulse received from the bus. In reading the state of the phases in the oscillator upon reception of the second pulse, a determination is made for a current phase corresponding to the phase delay between the reference clock signal and the second pulse of the bus. By using a regeneration device that also includes a ring oscillator and a counter, it is possible to regenerate the clock signal of the bus with high precision.
Abstract:
A device for the regeneration of a clock signal uses a reference clock signal given by an internal oscillator to measure the number of reference clock pulses between the first two synchronization pulses sent by an external serial bus or USB at the beginning of each transaction. Thus a rough measurement N is obtained of the USB clock signal to be regenerated. The delay of each of these two synchronization pulses with respect to the previous pulse of the reference clock signal is measured. This delay is computed with respect to an internally defined time unit. On the basis of the measurement of these two delays, and the measurement of the number of reference clock periods, and knowing the measurement n of the period of the reference clock signal in the time unit, the period of the USB clock signal to be regenerated is computed with precision.
Abstract:
A master-slave D type flip-flop circuit includes a power consumption circuit including a reference stage in parallel with a master and a slave stage of the flip-flop circuit. This structure advantageously provides a switching of the flip-flop circuit on each of the leading and trailing edges of the clock signal for the sequencing of the flip-flop circuit.