摘要:
Methods and apparatus are disclosed for aligning received data bits in elastic interface systems. Depending upon which one of several alignment modes is selected, data bits can be loaded into FIFO latches on rising clock edges if the data was sent on rising clock edges, on falling clock edges if the data was sent on falling clock edges, or on the nearest clock edge if minimum latency is desired. Alternatively, data bits can be delayed by one or more bit times before loading into FIFO latches to reduce the elastic interface system's sensitivity to drift. The present invention permits a user to trade off factors related to for latency, drift, and skew by choosing among different alignment modes in an elastic interface system.
摘要:
A processing device, system, method, and design structure for providing a microprocessor interface with dynamic segment sparing and repair. The processing device includes drive-side switching logic including driver multiplexers to select driver data for transmitting on link segments of a bus, and receive-side switching logic including receiver multiplexers to select received data from the link segments of the bus. The bus includes multiple data link segments, a clock link segment, and at least two spare link segments selectable by the drive-side switching logic and the receive-side switching logic to replace one or more of the data link segments and the clock link segment.
摘要:
A method and apparatus for de-skewing and aligning digital data received over an elastic interface bus is disclosed. Upon receiving the data, it is sent through a programmable delay line. While in the programmable delay line, the data is sampled at three points within the data's eye pattern. The three sampling points are dynamically adjusted to maximize coverage of the data's eye pattern. During the adjustment of the sampling points to optimally cover the data's eye pattern, delayed data is sampled from an alternate sampler to prevent sampling from the functional sampler while the delay in the primary sampler is adjusted. Sampling from the alternate sampler while changing the sampling points of the functional sampler serves to reduce glitches that may occur by sampling the functional sampler while its sampling parameters are changed. The method and apparatus allow for alternate eye tracking and wrap around eye tracking.
摘要:
A processing device, processing system, method, and design structure for an enhanced microprocessor interconnect with bit shadowing are provided. The processing device includes shadow selection logic to select a driver bit position as a shadowed driver value, and line drivers to transmit data for the selected driver bit position and the shadowed driver value on separate link segments of a bus. The processing device also includes shadow compare logic to compare a selected received value with a shadowed received value from the bus and identify a miscompare in response to a mismatch of the compare, and shadow counters to count a rate of the miscompare relative to a bus error rate over a period of time. A defective link segment is identified in response to the rate of the miscompare within a predefined threshold of the bus error rate.
摘要:
Shadow selection logic is used to select a driver bit position as a shadowed driver value, and line drivers to transmit data for the selected driver bit position and the shadowed driver value on separate link segments of a bus. In addition, shadow compare logic is used to compare a selected received value with a shadowed received value from the bus and identify a miscompare in response to a mismatch of the compare Shadow counters are used to count a rate of the miscompare relative to a bus error rate over a period of time. A defective link segment is identified in response to the rate of the miscompare within a predefined threshold of the bus error rate.
摘要:
A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for managing a set of signal paths for a chip. A defective signal path within the set of signal paths for the chip is detected. Signals are re-routed through the set of signal paths such that the defective signal path is removed from the set of signal paths and sending signals using remaining data signal paths in the set of signal paths and using an extra signal path in response to detecting the defective signal path.
摘要:
Pseudo-differential drivers and receivers are used to communicate data signals between two or more IC chips. The data paths are aligned using programmable delay circuitry to de-skew each data path. A programmable reference generator is used to generate a reference voltage used by one or a group of receivers to detect the data signals. The reference voltage is adjustable using coarse as well as fine digitally controlled voltage increments. Test signals are sent from the driver to the receiver and the reference voltage is varied over its adjustable range using the coarse and fine adjustment controls while circuitry determines a measure of the detection timing jitter on successive transitions of the test signal. The operational value of the reference voltage is set to the value where the detection timing jitter is determined to be a minimum.
摘要:
A phase interpolator system is disclosed that may include a clock to provide a clock signal, and a control section in communication with the clock to regulate the strength of the clock signal. The system may also include a generator circuit to produce an alternate clock signal based upon the strength of the clock signal received from the control section.
摘要:
On-chip sensor to detect power supply vulnerabilities. The on-chip sensor employs a sensitive delay chain and an insensitive delay chain to detect power supply undershoots and overshoots without requiring external off-chip components. Undershoots and overshoots outside a user-defined threshold are detected. The undershoots and overshoots are indicated by a relative difference in phase of the two delay chains. The two delay chains are programmable to detect various frequencies.
摘要:
A computer program product and a hub device for deriving clocks in a memory system are provided. The computer program product includes a storage medium readable by a processing circuit and storing instructions for execution by the processing circuit for facilitating a method. The method includes receiving a reference oscillator clock at the hub device. The hub device is in communication with a controller channel via a controller interface and in communication with a memory device via a memory interface. A base clock operating at a base clock frequency is derived from the reference oscillator clock. A memory interface clock is derived by multiplying the base clock by a memory multiplier. A controller interface clock is derived by multiplying the base clock by a controller multiplier. The memory interface clock is applied to the memory interface and the controller interface clock is applied to the controller interface.