摘要:
A method for manufacturing a calibration device for an active circuit on a chip, comprises: providing an active circuit that is capable of exhibiting a desired electrical characteristic; and providing a calibration mechanism on-chip with the active circuit. The calibration mechanism generates a control output and comprises a device under test (DUT) configured as a replica of at least one segment of the active circuit, and which generates a test output that causes finite adjustments to the control output, based on a comparison of the electrical characteristics exhibited by the DUT with a known electrical characteristic. The method further comprises: attaching to each control input terminal of the active circuit a corresponding control output from the calibration mechanism. The control output of the calibration mechanism dynamically adjusts control input applied to devices of the active circuit to force the active circuit to exhibit the desired electrical characteristic.
摘要:
The invention is directed to a clock data recovery system for resampling a clock signal according to an incoming data signal. The clock data recovery system comprises a clock generator for generating the clock signal and a phase adjustment unit for generating sampling phases dependent on a phase adjustment control signal. It also comprises a data sampling unit operable to generate a stream of input samples and an edge detector for generating therefrom an internal early signal and an internal late signal. A phase adjustment control unit is disposed for generating under use of the early signal and the late signal the phase adjustment control signal. The phase adjustment control unit is feedable with an external early/late signal and/or comprises an output for delivering an export early/late signal.
摘要:
A system and method is disclosed for evaluating a data group of oversampled bits to detect edge transitions and for improving use of information available from a sampled data while maintaining acceptable noise rejection. An edge detection system for receiving a serial data stream includes a sampler for collecting a sample pattern from the serial data stream, the sample pattern including a succession of a plurality of data samples from the data stream with the plurality of data samples including multiple samples during a bit time associated with the data stream; a memory, coupled to the sampler, for storing one or more successive sample patterns; and a correlator, coupled to the memory, for producing a sample condition signal using a set of predefined patterns by comparing the stored sampled patterns to the predefined patterns.
摘要:
A receiver for clock and data recovery includes n sampling latches (SL1 . . . SLn) for determining n sample values (SV1 . . . SVn) of a reference signal (Ref2) at n sampling phases (φ1a . . . (φna) having sampling latch inputs and sampling latch outputs. The receiver further includes a phase position analyzer (5) connected to the sampling latch outputs for generating an adjusting signal (AS) for adjusting the sampling phase (φ1a . . . φna), if the sample value (SV1 . . . SVn) deviates from a set point and a phase interpolator (9) for generating sampling phases (φ1u . . . φnu). A sampling phase adjusting unit (6) connected with its inputs to the phase position analyzer (5) and the phase interpolator (9) and with its outputs to the sampling latches (SL1 . . . SLn) is provided for generating adjusted sampling phases (φ1a . . . φna) depending on the sampling phases (φ1u . . . φnu) and said adjusting signal (AS).
摘要:
A self-adaptive voltage regulator for a phase-locked loop is disclosed. The phase-locked loop includes a phase detector, a charge pump, a low pass filter, and a voltage control oscillator, wherein the low pass filter inputs a control voltage to a voltage controlled oscillator for generation of an output clock. According to the method and system disclosed herein, the self-adaptive voltage regulator is coupled to an output of the low pass filter for sensing the control voltage during normal operation of the phase-locked loop, and for dynamically adjusting the supply voltage, which is input to the voltage controlled oscillator in response to the control voltage, such that the phase-locked loop maintains the control voltage within a predefined range of a reference voltage.
摘要:
A frame stripping algorithm for use in a ring communication network utilizing early token release wherein multiple frames can exist on the ring at one time. The algorithm introduces two new strip terminating conditions which supplement two of the three conditions applicable to a normal token release scheme. The first of these conditions occurs when the source address in a received message is not the same as the receiving station's address and no code violation errors have been detected. The second condition occurs when the receiving station detects an isolated ending delimiter without a preceding starting delimiter.
摘要:
Apparatuses and methods comprise a phase shifter, an adjustable capacitance configured to adjust a phase shift of said phase shifter, an arbitrary waveform generator configured to adjust the adjustable capacitance, and a pulse pattern generator coupled to the phase shifter, the phase shifter is configured to control the pulse pattern generator. In one aspect, an adjustable capacitance is at least one varactor diode. In another, a pair of varactor diodes are separated by λ/4 lines, an input and an output of the adjustable capacitance is AC-coupled, and the arbitrary waveform generator is configured to adjust the adjustable capacitance through a gaussian noise signal input to the pair of varactor diodes. A deterministic jitter generator may be coupled to the pulse pattern generator. An open-circuited stub line may be input to the pattern generator, a deterministic jitter content number adjustable varying stub line length.
摘要:
A design structure embodied in a machine readable storage medium for designing, manufacturing, and/or testing a design of a decision feedback equalizer (DFE) Clock-And-Data Recovery (CDR) architecture that utilizes/produces one sample-per-bit in the receiver and reduces bit-error-rate (BER) is provided. The design generally includes a receiver circuit. The receiver circuit generally includes a decision feedback equalizer (DFE) that produces one sample per bit, and means for automatically self-adjusting the DFE to enable an eye centering process by which peak energy is maintained within the receiver circuit when phase error is a minimum.
摘要:
A method and system for testing a high-speed circuit is disclosed. The method and system include obtaining a high-speed statistical signature of the high-speed circuit using a conventional tester. The method and system further include comparing the high-speed statistical signature of the high-speed circuit to an expected signature. Consequently, it can be determined whether the high-speed circuit functions within the desired parameters.
摘要:
A system and method for tracking/adapting phase or frequency changes in an incoming serial data stream that may contain significant amounts of noise and/or jitter and may contain relatively long periods of successive univalue data bits. The method includes digitally sampling a received data stream at predefined intervals to produce a data set; estimating when logic transitions occur in the data set; detecting a timing trend represented by the estimated logic transitions; and adjusting a frequency of the first clock so that the timing trend averages approximately zero over a plurality of logic transitions.