Apparatus and methods for low-jitter transceiver clocking
    1.
    发明授权
    Apparatus and methods for low-jitter transceiver clocking 有权
    低抖动收发器时钟的装置和方法

    公开(公告)号:US08406258B1

    公开(公告)日:2013-03-26

    申请号:US12752984

    申请日:2010-04-01

    IPC分类号: H04J3/06

    摘要: One embodiment relates to an integrated circuit which includes multiple communication channels, a clock multiplexer in each channel, two low-jitter clock generator circuits, and clock distribution circuitry. Each channel includes circuitry arranged to communicate a serial data stream using a reference clock signal, and the clock multiplexer in each channel is configured to select the reference clock signal from a plurality of input clock signals. The first low-jitter clock generator circuit is arranged to generate a first clock signal using a first inductor-capacitor-based oscillator circuit, and the second low-jitter clock generator circuit is arranged to generate a second clock signal using a second inductor-capacitor-based oscillator circuit The first and second inductor-capacitor-based oscillator circuits have different tuning ranges. The clock distribution circuitry is arranged to input the first and second low-jitter clock signals to each said clock multiplexer. Other embodiments and features are also disclosed.

    摘要翻译: 一个实施例涉及一种集成电路,其包括多个通信信道,每个信道中的时钟多路复用器,两个低抖动时钟发生器电路和时钟分配电路。 每个通道包括被布置为使用参考时钟信号传送串行数据流的电路,并且每个通道中的时钟复用器被配置为从多个输入时钟信号中选择参考时钟信号。 第一低抖动时钟发生器电路被布置为使用第一基于电感器 - 电容器的振荡器电路产生第一时钟信号,并且第二低抖动时钟发生器电路被布置为使用第二电感器电容器产生第二时钟信号 基振荡电路基于第一和第二电感电容器的振荡电路具有不同的调谐范围。 时钟分配电路被布置为将第一和第二低抖动时钟信号输入到每个所述时钟多路复用器。 还公开了其它实施例和特征。

    Method to digitize analog signals in a system utilizing dynamic analog test multiplexer for diagnostics
    2.
    发明授权
    Method to digitize analog signals in a system utilizing dynamic analog test multiplexer for diagnostics 有权
    使用动态模拟测试多路复用器对系统中的模拟信号进行数字化的方法进行诊断

    公开(公告)号:US08299802B2

    公开(公告)日:2012-10-30

    申请号:US12263290

    申请日:2008-10-31

    IPC分类号: G01R31/02

    CPC分类号: G01R31/3167

    摘要: An integrated circuit capable of monitoring analog voltages inside an analog block is presented. The integrated circuit has an analog test multiplexer (mux) whose inputs are connected to analog voltages of interest inside an analog block. The analog test multiplexer directs a selected analog voltage from an analog block to the output of the analog test mux. The integrated circuit further includes an analog monitor state machine which provides the selection bits to the analog test multiplexer, enabling random access to the analog voltages inside the analog block. The integrated circuit also includes an analog to digital converter for converting the selected analog voltage from the analog test multiplexer into a digital representation.

    摘要翻译: 提出了一种能够监视模拟模块内的模拟电压的集成电路。 集成电路具有模拟测试复用器(多路复用器),其输入端连接到模拟模块内的感兴趣的模拟电压。 模拟测试复用器将选定的模拟电压从模拟模块引导到模拟测试复用器的输出。 集成电路还包括模拟监视状态机,其向模拟测试多路复用器提供选择位,使得能够随机访问模拟块内的模拟电压。 集成电路还包括用于将来自模拟测试多路复用器的所选模拟电压转换为数字表示的模数转换器。

    PLD architecture optimized for 10G Ethernet physical layer solution
    3.
    发明授权
    PLD architecture optimized for 10G Ethernet physical layer solution 有权
    针对10G以太网物理层解决方案优化的PLD架构

    公开(公告)号:US08184651B2

    公开(公告)日:2012-05-22

    申请号:US12100360

    申请日:2008-04-09

    IPC分类号: H04L12/56

    CPC分类号: H04L49/30 H04L49/352

    摘要: An integrated circuit (e.g., a programmable integrated circuit such as a programmable microcontroller, a programmable logic device, etc.) includes programmable circuitry and 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10 GbE) transceiver circuitry. The programmable circuitry and the transceiver circuitry may be configured to implement the physical (PHY) layer of the 10 GbE networking specification. This integrated circuit may then be coupled to an optical transceiver module in order to transmit and receive 10 GbE optical signals. The transceiver circuitry and interface circuitry that connects the transceiver circuitry with the programmable circuitry may be hard-wired or partially hard-wired.

    摘要翻译: 集成电路(例如可编程集成电路,例如可编程微控制器,可编程逻辑器件等)包括可编程电路和10千兆以太网(10GbE)收发器电路。 可编程电路和收发器电路可以被配置为实现10GbE网络规范的物理(PHY)层。 该集成电路然后可以耦合到光收发器模块,以便发送和接收10GbE光信号。 将收发器电路与可编程电路连接的收发器电路和接口电路可以是硬接线或部分硬接线的。

    Signal detect for high-speed serial interface
    5.
    发明授权
    Signal detect for high-speed serial interface 有权
    信号检测用于高速串行接口

    公开(公告)号:US08290750B1

    公开(公告)日:2012-10-16

    申请号:US13036437

    申请日:2011-02-28

    IPC分类号: H03F1/26

    摘要: Signal detection circuitry for a serial interface oversamples the input—i.e., samples the input multiple times per clock cycle—so that the likelihood of missing a signal is reduced. Sampling may be done with a regenerative latch which has a large bandwidth and can latch a signal at high speed. The amplitude threshold for detection may be programmable, particularly in a programmable device. Thus, between the use of a regenerative latch which is likely to catch any signal that might be present, and the use of oversampling to avoid the problem of sampling at the wrong time, the likelihood of failing to detect a signal is greatly diminished. Logic, such as a state machine, may be used to determine whether the samples captured s do or do not represent a signal. That logic may be programmable, allowing a user to set various parameters for signal detection.

    摘要翻译: 串行接口的信号检测电路对输入进行过采样,即每个时钟周期对输入进行多次采样,从而减少信号丢失的可能性。 可以使用具有大带宽的再生锁存器并且可以高速锁存信号来进行采样。 用于检测的幅度阈值可以是可编程的,特别是在可编程器件中。 因此,在可能捕获可能存在的任何信号的再生锁存器的使用之间以及使用过采样以避免在错误时间采样的问题,大大减少了不能检测信号的可能性。 可以使用诸如状态机的逻辑来确定捕获的样本是否或不表示信号。 该逻辑可以是可编程的,允许用户设置用于信号检测的各种参数。

    Flexible high-speed serial interface architectures for programmable integrated circuit devices
    6.
    发明授权
    Flexible high-speed serial interface architectures for programmable integrated circuit devices 有权
    用于可编程集成电路器件的灵活的高速串行接口架构

    公开(公告)号:US07602212B1

    公开(公告)日:2009-10-13

    申请号:US11904003

    申请日:2007-09-24

    IPC分类号: G06F7/38 H03K19/173

    摘要: An integrated circuit (e.g., a programmable integrated circuit such as a programmable microcontroller, a programmable logic device, etc.) includes high-speed serial data signal interface channels, some of which include more circuitry that is dedicated to performing various high-speed serial interface functions than others of those channels have. To increase the flexibility with which such circuitry in a more feature-rich channel can be used, routing is provided for selectively allowing a less feature-rich channel to use certain dedicated circuitry of a more feature-rich channel that is not itself using all of its dedicated circuitry.

    摘要翻译: 集成电路(例如,可编程集成电路,例如可编程微控制器,可编程逻辑器件等)包括高速串行数据信号接口通道,其中一些包括更多专用于执行各种高速串行数据 接口功能比其他那些通道有。 为了增加可以使用更多功能丰富的信道中的这种电路的灵活性,提供路由选择性地允许较不富有特征的信道使用更多功能丰富的信道的某些专用电路,其不是本身使用全部 其专用电路。

    High-speed serial data signal transmitter driver circuitry
    7.
    发明申请
    High-speed serial data signal transmitter driver circuitry 审中-公开
    高速串行数据信号发射器驱动电路

    公开(公告)号:US20090154591A1

    公开(公告)日:2009-06-18

    申请号:US12002540

    申请日:2007-12-17

    IPC分类号: H04L27/00

    CPC分类号: H04L25/028

    摘要: Transmitter driver circuitry for outputting a high-speed serial data signal (e.g., in the range of about 10 gigabits per second or higher) includes H-tree driver circuitry having only a main driver stage and a post-tap driver stage. At least one transistor in the H-tree driver circuitry is constructed and connected to provide electrostatic discharge protection. PMOS and NMOS current sources are used for the H-tree driver circuitry to enhance power supply noise rejection.

    摘要翻译: 用于输出高速串行数据信号(例如,在大约10吉比特每秒或更高的范围内)的发射器驱动器电路包括仅具有主驱动器级和抽头后驱动级的H树驱动器电路。 H树驱动器电路中的至少一个晶体管被构造和连接以提供静电放电保护。 PMOS和NMOS电流源用于H-tree驱动器电路,以增强电源噪声抑制。

    Pre-emphasis circuitry including a pre-emphasis voltage variation compensation engine
    8.
    发明授权
    Pre-emphasis circuitry including a pre-emphasis voltage variation compensation engine 有权
    预加重电路,包括预加重电压变化补偿引擎

    公开(公告)号:US09246715B1

    公开(公告)日:2016-01-26

    申请号:US12432136

    申请日:2009-04-29

    摘要: A pre-emphasis circuitry that includes (1) a pre-emphasis voltage variation compensation (PVVC) engine having a transition detection circuit and (2) a compensation driver coupled to the PVVC engine is described. In one embodiment, the compensation driver reduces data dependent voltage variations in pre-emphasis provided by the pre-emphasis circuitry. In one embodiment, in response to a predetermined data pattern detected by the PVVC engine, the compensation driver provides an additional boost to performance critical capacitive nodes of the pre-emphasis circuitry. The additional boost causes the performance critical capacitive nodes to charge or discharge more rapidly. In one embodiment, the PVVC engine further includes a digital finite impulse response (FIR) filter coupled to the transition detection circuit. Also, in one embodiment, the PVVC engine further includes an FIR delay circuit coupled to the digital FIR filter and a synchronizer circuit coupled to the digital FIR filter and the FIR delay circuit, where the FIR delay circuit introduces latency to match-delay produced by the transition detection circuit and the synchronizer circuit synchronizes data to be sent to the main driver, the pre-emphasis driver, and the compensation driver.

    摘要翻译: 一种预加重电路,其包括(1)具有转移检测电路的预加重电压变化补偿(PVVC)引擎和(2)耦合到PVVC引擎的补偿驱动器。 在一个实施例中,补偿驱动器减少由预加重电路提供的预加重中的数据相关电压变化。 在一个实施例中,响应于由PVVC引擎检测到的预定数据模式,补偿驱动器为预加重电路的性能关键电容性节点提供额外的提升。 额外的升压会导致性能关键的电容性节点更快地充电或放电。 在一个实施例中,PVVC引擎还包括耦合到转换检测电路的数字有限脉冲响应(FIR)滤波器。 此外,在一个实施例中,PVVC引擎还包括耦合到数字FIR滤波器的FIR延迟电路和耦合到数字FIR滤波器和FIR延迟电路的同步器电路,其中FIR延迟电路将等待时间延迟到由 转换检测电路和同步器电路将要发送到主驱动器,预加重驱动器和补偿驱动器的数据同步。

    Protocol-agnostic automatic rate negotiation for high-speed serial interface in a programmable logic device
    9.
    发明授权
    Protocol-agnostic automatic rate negotiation for high-speed serial interface in a programmable logic device 有权
    可编程逻辑器件中高速串行接口的协议无关自动速率协商

    公开(公告)号:US08831140B2

    公开(公告)日:2014-09-09

    申请号:US11687052

    申请日:2007-03-16

    摘要: Automatic rate negotiation logic for a high speed serial interface in a programmable logic device determines whether multiple occurrences of a single-bit transition (i.e., a data transition from “0” to “1” to “0” or from “1” to “0” to “1”) occur within a predetermined time interval on a data channel of a high-speed serial interface. The interval preferably is selected such that multiple occurrences of a single-bit transition mean that the data channel is operating in full-rate mode. The rate negotiation logic may share a phase detector with clock data recovery circuitry in the interface. The phase detector may be a bang-bang phase detector specially adapted to detect single-bit transitions.

    摘要翻译: 用于可编程逻辑器件中的高速串行接口的自动速率协商逻辑确定单个位转换的多次出现(即,从“0”到“1”到“0”或从“1”到“1”的数据转换 0“到”1“)发生在高速串行接口的数据信道上的预定时间间隔内。 间隔优选地被选择为使得多次出现单位转换意味着数据信道以全速率模式运行。 速率协商逻辑可以在接口中共享具有时钟数据恢复电路的相位检测器。 相位检测器可以是专门用于检测单位转换的爆发相位检测器。

    Decoupling capacitor control circuitry
    10.
    发明授权
    Decoupling capacitor control circuitry 有权
    去耦电容控制电路

    公开(公告)号:US08669828B1

    公开(公告)日:2014-03-11

    申请号:US12909739

    申请日:2010-10-21

    IPC分类号: H04B3/28

    摘要: Integrated circuits with decoupling capacitor circuitry are provided. Decoupling capacitor circuitry may include multiple arrays of decoupling capacitors. Each decoupling capacitor array may have a corresponding decoupling capacitor monitoring circuit that is associated with that decoupling capacitor array. Each decoupling capacitor monitoring circuit may include a resistor and switching circuitry. Each decoupling capacitor monitoring circuit may be coupled to a comparator and control circuitry. During testing, the control circuitry may configure each decoupling capacitor array for leakage current testing one at a time. If a decoupling capacitor array is determined to exhibit excessive leakage currents, that decoupling capacitor array will be marked as defective and will be disabled from use. If the decoupling capacitor array is determined to exhibit tolerable leakage currents, that decoupling capacitor array will be enable for use to help reduce power supply noise.

    摘要翻译: 提供具有去耦电容电路的集成电路。 去耦电容器电路可以包括多个去耦电容器阵列。 每个去耦电容器阵列可以具有与该去耦电容器阵列相关联的相应的去耦电容器监控电路。 每个去耦电容器监控电路可以包括电阻器和开关电路。 每个去耦电容器监控电路可以耦合到比较器和控制电路。 在测试期间,控制电路可以配置每个去耦电容器阵列以便一次一个地进行漏电流测试。 如果解耦电容器阵列被确定为表现出过多的漏电流,则该去耦电容阵列将被标记为有缺陷的并且将被禁止使用。 如果解耦电容器阵列被确定为表现出可容忍的漏电流,则该去耦电容器阵列将被用于帮助减少电源噪声。