Abstract:
An enumeration technique is provided that requires no pre-assignment of addresses to slave devices connected through P2P links to a host device. With regard to any P2P link between devices, one device has a master interface and the remaining device has a slave interface. To distinguish between the master and slave interfaces, a master/slave status bit may be used. Each P2P link has a link ID that may be concatenated with the status bit for a corresponding interface (slave or master) to form a node ID. The host device receives a unique concatenated address from each slave device that represents a concatenation of the node ID for the slave and the node ID for any intervening interfaces between the slave device and the host device. The host device then assigns a unique Cartesian address to each slave device.
Abstract:
A dual-data-rate interface is provided that includes a transmitter driving a transmit pin coupled to a receive pin of a receiver. The receiver drives its receive pin with cycles of a fetch clock. The transmitter responds to each edge of the fetch clock by transmitting a bit over the transmit pin to the receiver.
Abstract:
Radio Frequency Front End (RFFE) command code extensions with uniform start sequence condition (SSC) are disclosed. In one aspect, the RFFE protocol reserves one of the remaining reserved command codes as a command code extension command. In a first aspect, use of the command code extension command allows insertion of another command field after an existing command code and before a payload. The command code extension command may include the ability to nest plural command code extension commands providing multiple layers of commands so as to provide necessary and sufficient unused codes for future needs. In a second aspect, the command code extension command may allow a designation of a particular subset of commands to be associated with the command codes in the new command code field. In this aspect, command codes are reused with potentially different meanings based on which subset of commands was indicated.
Abstract:
Systems, methods, and apparatus for transmitting additional information over a synchronous serial bus are described. A method performed at a transmitting device coupled to the serial bus includes providing first data in a data signal to be transmitted on a first wire of a multi-wire serial bus, providing a series of pulses in a clock signal to be transmitted on a second wire of a multi-wire serial bus, where each pulse has a rising edge and a falling edge, each edge being aligned with a different bit of the first data. The method may include encoding second data in the clock signal by controlling a duration of each pulse in the series of pulses based on a value of one or more bits of the second data, and transmitting the data signal and the clock signal over the serial bus.
Abstract:
A virtual GPIO interface is provided that receives a transmit set of GPIO signals from a processor. The virtual GPIO interface transmits a portion of the transmit set of GPIO signals over GPIO pins in a conventional fashion. However, the virtual GPIO interface provides a remaining portion of the transmit set of GPIO signals to a finite state machine that serializes the GPIO signals in the remaining portion into frames of virtual GPIO signals. A modified UART interface transmits the frames over a UART transmit pin responsive to cycles of a UART oversampling clock.
Abstract:
A bit-by-bit error correction technique is disclosed that divides each bit transmission into an acknowledgment phase, an error correction phase, and a transmission phase.
Abstract:
Systems, methods, and apparatus for bridging between different types of serial interface are disclosed. A method performed by a bridge circuit includes synchronizing transmissions on a 4-wire serial interface with transmissions on a 2-wire serial interface when a stop bit is detected on data lines of at least one interface, receiving a first clear-to-send notification from a first wire of the 2-wire serial interface, asserting a request-to-send signal on a first flow-control line of the 4-wire serial interface, receiving data bits from a first data line of the 4-wire serial interface while the request-to-send signal is asserted, and transmitting the data bits on the first wire of the 2-wire serial interface after receiving the first clear-to-send notification.
Abstract:
Priority-based data communication over multiple communication buses is disclosed. In this regard, an electronic device is communicatively coupled to a first communication bus and a second communication bus. The electronic device is configured to detect communication signals communicated over the first communication bus and the second communication bus. If the communication signals are detected on both the first communication bus and the second communication bus, the electronic device is further configured to protect data received over the second communication bus from being overwritten by data received over the first communication bus. By configuring the electronic device to support multiple communication buses, it is possible to configure one of the multiple communication buses as a priority communication bus, thus allowing time-critical communications to be carried out over the priority communication bus in a timely manner without preempting ongoing communications on other communication buses.
Abstract:
Systems, methods, and apparatus for data communication are provided. An apparatus maybe configured to generate a mask field in a packet to be transmitted through an interface to a slave device, the mask field having a first number of bits, provide a control-bit field in the packet, the control-bit field having a second number of bits, where the second number of bits is less than the first number of bits, and transmit the packet through the interface. The packet may be addressed to a control register of the slave device. The control register may have the first number of bits. Each bit in the control-bit field may correspond to a bit of the control register that is identified by the mask field.
Abstract:
In an aspect, an integrated circuit obtains a set of general purpose input/output (GPIO) signals for one or more peripheral devices, obtains a first virtual GPIO packet that includes the set of GPIO signals independent of a central processing unit, and transmits the first virtual GPIO packet to the one or more peripheral devices over an I3C bus independent of the central processing unit. The integrated circuit may further obtain a set of configuration signals for configuring one or more GPIO pins of the one or more peripheral devices, obtain a second virtual GPIO packet that includes the set of configuration signals independent of the central processing unit, and transmit the second virtual GPIO packet to the one or more peripheral devices over the I3C bus independent of the central processing unit.