Abstract:
Systems, methods, and apparatus are described that enable a device to indicate availability of priority data to be communicated over a half-duplex serial bus without waiting for an ongoing transmission to be completed. In-datagram critical signaling is accommodated without breaking backward compatibility. A method implemented at a transmitting device coupled to a serial bus includes transmitting a data byte over a first line of the serial bus to a receiving device in accordance with a clock signal transmitted by a master device on a second line of the serial device, detecting a first pulse on the first line of the serial bus during a cycle of the clock signal designated for an acknowledgement or negative acknowledgement by the second device, and processing an alert indicated by the first pulse.
Abstract:
Time-sequenced multi-device address assignment is provided. In this regard, an electronic device includes a plurality of client devices that are daisy-chained to a host interface port in a host controller by a reset line. The host controller is configured to assert the reset line to reset the daisy-chained client devices and then sequentially de-assert the reset line for the daisy-chained client devices according to a determined time sequence. Accordingly, the host controller assigns a unique client device address to each of the client devices when the reset line is de-asserted for the client device. By daisy-chaining the client devices via the reset line and sequentially assigning the unique client device addresses based on the determined time sequence, it is possible to assign the unique client device addresses from a single host interface port, thus reducing design complexity, footprint, and power consumption in the electronic device.
Abstract:
A device is provided that has a bus including a first line and a second line. A first set of devices are coupled to the bus and, in a first mode of operation, configured to use the first line for data transmissions and use the second line for a first clock signal. One or more additional lines are connected between two or more of the devices in the first set of devices for transmitting signaling between the two or more devices. A second set of devices are configured to use the bus and at least one of the additional lines for data transmissions in a second mode of operation, where in the second mode of operation symbols are encoded across the first line, the second line, and the at least one of the additional lines.
Abstract:
Systems, methods, and apparatus are described that enable communication of in-band reset signals over a serial bus. A method performed at a slave device coupled to the serial bus includes configuring a reset controller to operate in one of plural modes, identifying a first reset pattern in signaling received from a multi-wire serial bus, complying with one or more transmissions defined by the protocol, asserting a reset input of a processing circuit in the slave device responsive to an identification of the first reset pattern when the reset controller is operated in a first mode, and ignoring the first reset pattern when the reset controller is operated in a second mode. The signaling received from the multi-wire serial bus may include one or more transmissions defined by a protocol used on the multi-wire serial bus. The reset controller may operate autonomously from the processing circuit in the first mode.
Abstract:
Systems, methods and apparatus are described that offer improved performance of a sensor bus. A first command is transmitted to devices coupled to a serial bus operated in a first mode in accordance with a first protocol to cause the serial bus to be operated in a second mode. After communicating in accordance with a second protocol while the serial bus is operated in the second mode, a second command is transmitted to the plurality of devices in accordance with the first protocol to terminate the second mode. In the second mode, extra symbols inserted into a sequence of symbols transmitted on the serial bus prevent the occurrence of an unintended signaling state on the serial bus. Pulses transmitted on a wire of the serial bus in the second mode may have their duration limited such that a filter of a second device suppresses the limited-duration pulses.
Abstract:
Systems, methods, and apparatus for communication virtualized general-purpose input/output (GPIO) signals over a serial communication link A method performed at a transmitting device coupled to a communication link includes encoding virtual GPIO signals or messages into a data packet, determining a maximum latency requirement for transmitting the data packet over the communication link, providing a command code header indicating a packet type to be used for transmitting the data packet over the communication link, and transmitting the command code header and the data packet over the communication link in a packet selected to satisfy the maximum latency requirement. A protocol for transmitting the data packet may be determined based on the maximum latency requirement and one or more attributes of protocols available for use on the communication link. In one example, the communication link includes a serial bus and the available protocols include I2C, I3C, and/or RFFE protocols.
Abstract:
System, methods and apparatus are described that offer improved performance of an Inter-Integrated Circuit (I2C) bus. A method of testing a spike filter in a legacy I2C device includes generating a command to be transmitted on a serial bus in accordance with an I2C protocol, where the command includes an address corresponding to the legacy slave device, merging the command with a sequence of pulses to obtain a test signal, transmitting the test signal on the serial bus, and determining the efficacy of a spike filter in the first slave device based on whether the legacy slave device acknowledges the test signal. Each pulse in the sequence of pulses has a duration that is less than 50 ns. The spike filter is expected to suppress pulses that have a duration of less than 50 ns.
Abstract:
Aspects of the invention are related to a method for synchronizing a first sensor clock of a first sensor. The exemplary method comprises: correcting the first sensor clock for a first time, transferring data from the first sensor, and correcting the first sensor clock for a second time, wherein a time interval between two corrections of the first sensor clock is selected such that the first sensor clock is sufficiently aligned with a processor clock of a processor over the time interval.
Abstract:
Systems, methods, and apparatus for communication virtualized general-purpose input/output (GPIO) signals and control messages over a serial communication link. An apparatus includes a serial bus, and a controller configured to represent a series of signaling state of physical general-purpose input/output (GPIO) in a batch that comprises a sequence of virtual GPIO messages and control messages, generate a first header that includes timing information configured to control timing of execution of the batch, transmit the first header over a communication link, and transmit the batch over the communication link.
Abstract:
Disclosed are methods and apparatus for calculating sensor timing corrections at a sensor device. The methods and apparatus determine a sampling period as a number of cycles of an internal clock counted while a configured number of samples is captured in a slave device, determine a time interval between samples using an offset from a time of an observed occurrence of a hardware event on a communication link, the offset being received in a command from a master device, and adjust the time interval between samples by iterative digital approximation to correct for differences between timing of the slave device and the master device while concurrently calculating a watermark time corresponding to a sample start time configured by the master device for one or more slave devices.