Gearbox circuit for changing data bit widths in high-speed transceiver and working method thereof

Abstract

The invention relates to a gearbox circuit for changing data bit widths in a high-speed transceiver and a working method of the gearbox circuit. Conversion between different data bit widths is controlled by controlling generation of a clock used for data input and a clock used for data output and the phase relation between the two clocks, and then data bit width matching between internal modules is achieved. The gearbox circuit comprises a counter generation circuit, a clock generation circuit, a first data width conversion circuit and a second data width conversion circuit. The output of the counter generation circuit is connected with the clock generation circuit, the input of the clock generation circuit is connected with a clock source, and the output of the clock generation circuit is connected with the first data width conversion circuit and the second data width conversion circuit. The gearbox circuit and the working method have the advantages that under the conditions that the data transmission bit rate is not affected, and data transmission efficiency is not reduced, conversion of the data bit widths can be conducted at will, and the gearbox circuit and the working method are suitable for the design method and the circuit in the gearbox circuit field with any chip design.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to a circuit and a method for realizing arbitrary change of the data bit width, in particular to a gearbox circuit for changing the data bit width in a high-speed transceiver and its working method. [0002] Background technique [0003] With the development of serial communication rate to 10Gbps or even 100Gbps, traditional low-efficiency codecs such as 8b / 10b, due to their bandwidth waste rate of up to 20%, continue to use such coding methods in high-speed systems, which will greatly waste channels The bandwidth reduces the data transmission efficiency. Therefore, some high-efficiency encoding methods such as 64B / 66B, 64B / 67B, etc. are more common in the current high-speed system design. However, most of the current digital system bus bit widths are 1, 2, 4, 8, etc. 2 to the power of n bytes. For example, in the physical layer standard of 10G-WIS, the data sent from the upper layer protocol first It needs to be encoded by 64B...

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Problems solved by technology

This method is only suitable for FPGA design, because FPGA users can design the control logic by themselves

In general ASIC or SOC design, this method of significantly reducing system transmission efficiency cannot meet system requirements.

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