237 results about "Asynchronous fifo" patented technology

The invention discloses an ultrasound bone density measuring and analyzing system. The system comprises an ultrasound parameter measuring apparatus, a communication interface and a human machine interaction device, wherein the ultrasound parameter measuring apparatus comprises transmitting unit consisting of a pulse generator, a high-voltage pulse excitation module and a transmitting probe, an ultrasound receiving unit consisting of a receiving probe, a simulation pretreatment module, a gain adjustable amplifier, a phrase comparator, a high-speed ADC and an asynchronous FIFO, and a central processor, a power supply control module and a structural body. the human machine interaction device controls the ultrasound parameter measuring apparatus through the communication interface to measure the width of a calcaneus of a detected person, the transmission speed of an ultrasound wave in the calcaneus, broadband ultrasonic attenuation to calculate the bone intensity indexes and the bone density, so a medical report can be made according to diagnostic standards of osteoporosis and a special data base can be built for long term use. The system adopts wet or dry coupling and other technologies to improve the precision and accuracy of measure and has the advantages of easy carrying, low cost, no damage caused by radiation and can be use in long term monitoring of bone condition of the detected person.

The invention discloses an asynchronous AXI bus structure with a built-in cross point queue. The asynchronous AXI bus structure comprises an AXI bus structure and a cross point queue communication structure; the AXI bus structure comprises five channels, namely an address writing channel, a data writing channel, a writing return channel, an address reading channel and a data reading channel; the cross point queue communication structure satisfies an AXI bus protocol and is built in a communication structure for realizing inter-core communication; primary devices communicate by adopting the cross point queue communication structure; the address writing channel, the data writing channel and the writing return channel form a writing operation; and the address reading channel and the data reading channel form a reading operation. The structure can reduce resource consumption, realize parallel working of all primary devices and improve parallelism; due to the adoption of the cross point queue structure, the performance bottleneck, namely a handshake closed loop, of an on-chip communication network is broken through, and a low-delay communication function is realized; and the cross point queue is realized by adopting asynchronous FIFO, so that a mode of local synchronization and integral asynchronization is realized.

The invention relates to an FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array)-based micro-space oversampling direct-current balance serial deserializer, aiming to realize verification and design based on serial deserializer in an FPGA without built-in serial deserializer. The FPGA-based micro-space oversampling direct-current balance serial deserializer mainly comprises a clock data recovery (CDR) module, a 8B/10B encoder, a 8B/10B decoder an asynchronous FIFO (First In First Out) buffer module, a clock generation module, a parallel-to-serial conversion module, a serial-to-parallel conversion module, a framing module and a de-framing module. At a transmitting end, data are buffered by the asynchronous FIFO buffer module, input into the 8B/10B encoder (by 8 bits in one frame) for encoding through the framing module, then processed by the parallel-to-serial conversion module and finally output in a differential manner. At a receiving end, a differential signal is accepted by a differential input module and input into the serial-to-parallel conversion module to be output, the output data are decoded by the 8B/10B decoder, then input into the de-framing module, and finally output by the asynchronous FIFO buffer module in a buffer manner.

A GALS-based network-on-chip (NoC) includes a plurality of asynchronous first-in first-out (FIFO) input buffers connected to a plurality of IPs that asynchronously receive data; a plurality of asynchronous FIFO output buffers connected to the plurality of IPs asynchronously output data; and a router for forwarding data input to the plurality of asynchronous FIFO input buffers, to an asynchronous FIFO output buffer, among the plurality of asynchronous FIFO output buffers, which is connected to an IP to which the data is destined. Accordingly, the system-on-chip (SoC) adopting the GALS design scheme can transfer data via the NoC between the IPs which are in time zones having different clocks in the centralized switching system, thereby avoiding the need for a point-to-point system.

The invention provides an asynchronous first in first out (FIFO) interface and operation method wherein a read-out clock and a write-in clock of the asynchronous FIFO interface is asynchronous. The asynchronous FIFO interface comprises a FIFO buffer, a clock controller and a variable integer divider. The FIFO buffer inputs at least one data with the write-in clock, and outputs the at least one data with the read-out clock. The clock controller outputs a clock control signal according to a number of data stored in the FIFO buffer. The variable integer divider divides a first signal to generate the read-out clock or the write-in clock by an integer divisor controlled by the clock control signal in order to adjust the number of data stored in the FIFO buffer.

The invention provides an intellectual property core of optical fiber channel, which pertains to the field of computer memory technology, resolves the imperfection of the function of the current intellectual property core, and realizes the protocol process function of FC-1 layer and the partial FC-2 layer of fiber channel. The invention comprises a 8b or 10 b decoder, a 8b or 10b coder, receiver state machine, a sending state machine, a fiber channel port state machine, a frame-receiving engine, a frame-sending engine, a frame-sending buffer area, a stream control module, configuration and a statistical module between buffer areas. The invention provides frame level user logical interface, adopts asynchronous FIFO queue as a frame-receiving buffer area and a frame sending buffer area, and provides perfect configuration and statistical function, thus improving the coordination capability of software and hardware.

The invention provides an asynchronous first-in first-out memory for realizing the width varying data transmission and a method, wherein, the memory comprises: a data cache unit, a data basic unit in the data cache unit is the common multiple of the width of the read data and the width of the written data; a writing address calculation module, which is used for calculating the specific position in the data cache that is corresponding by the current writing address according to the width of the written data; a reading address calculation module, which is used for calculating the specific position in the data cache that is corresponding by the current reading address according to the width of the read data; a reading/writing judgment module, which is used for determining the reading/writing functions according to the specific position in the data cache that is corresponding by the current writing address and the specific position in the data cache that is corresponding by the current reading address. The memory can directly calculate the specific positions of the reading/writing data with the different widths during the reading and writing logics, carry out the logical judgment, simplify the system design and improve the efficiency of data transmission.

The present invention provides an asynchronous FIFO apparatus and method for passing data between a first clock domain and a second clock domain of a data processing apparatus, the first clock domain being asynchronous with respect to the second clock domain. The asynchronous FIFO apparatus comprises a main FIFO memory operable to store the data to be passed between the first and second clock domains, the main FIFO memory being accessible from each clock domain under the control of an access pointer associated with that clock domain. For one or both of the clock domains, the amount of data accessible per clock cycle is variable. An auxiliary FIFO memory is also provided associated with each clock domain in which the amount of data accessible per clock cycle is variable, this auxiliary FIFO memory being operable to store the access pointer used to access the main FIFO memory from its associated clock domain, and the access pointer being stored at a location of the auxiliary FIFO memory specified by an auxiliary access pointer. Routing logic is then operable to pass the auxiliary access pointer to the other clock domain to enable that other clock domain to retrieve the access pointer stored in the auxiliary FIFO memory. This provides an efficient technique for enabling data to be passed between two asynchronous clock domains in situations where for at least one of the clock domains the amount of data accessible per clock cycle in the main FIFO memory is variable.

The invention relates to an intermediate frequency data acquisition and playback system in a GNSS (global navigation satellite system) receiver. An antenna is connected with a radio frequency front-end unit, an SPI (single-point imaging) module is in two-way connection with the radio frequency front-end unit, the radio frequency front-end unit is connected with an FPGA (field-programmable gate array) control unit is in two-way connection with a USB (universal serial bus) interface transmission unit, and the USB interface transmission unit is in two-way connection with an upper computer; the radio frequency front-end unit is used for receiving satellite signals and outputting intermediate frequency signals, the SPI module is used for configuring the working mode of the radio frequency front-end unit and performing switching among a plurality of satellite navigation systems, the FPGA control unit is used for performing series-parallel conversion on the intermediate frequency signals and then saving the intermediate frequency signals into an asynchronous FIFO (first in first out) buffer module, a USB interface time sequence module is used for reading out data stored in the FIFO buffer module and then writing the data into the USB interface transmission unit, and the upper computer is used for storing the data which is red from the USB interface transmission unit into a local hard disc. A data stream after format conversion is transmitted into the intermediate frequency input end of a base band under the trigger of a base band clock through the control of the upper computer during the playback of the data.

The invention belongs to the field of a SerDes serial communication technology, and specifically relates to a FIFO protocol based digital interface circuit for a SerDes technology. The FIFO protocol based digital interface circuit is composed of two major parts, i.e., a sending end digital circuit and a receiving end digital circuit. According to the invention, classic synchronization and asynchronous FIFO and series-parallel and parallel-series conversion circuits in a digital system design are introduced to a SerDes digital-analog interface, the digital-analog interface is packaged to be a simple interface supporting a FIFO read-write protocol, the FIFO protocol based digital interface circuit is simple and feasible and facilitates scheduling. The ingenious use of the FIFO effectively solves the problem of signal integrity including clock zone crossing data transmission among chips, large transmission delay of a feedback control signal channel and the like. The series-parallel and parallel-series conversion circuits solve the problem of mismatch between a bus and a SerDes bid width, facilitate bit width expansion of the bus and enhance the adaptability of a circuit design scheme.

The invention discloses an Ethernet MAC (Media Access Control) sublayer controller applicable to WLAN (Wireless Local Area Network). The Ethernet MAC sublayer controller comprises a transmitter module, a receiver module, a state module, a control module, an MII (Media Independent Interface) management module, a transmission cache, a receiving cache and a register module, wherein the transmission cache and the receiving cache can realize storage, retransmission and discard of data frames by employing the asynchronous FIFO (First-in First-out) capable of loading read addresses, the information interaction of data frames between a host and the MAC sublayer controller is carried out through data frame cache descriptors which include transmitting cache descriptors and receiving cache descriptors, wherein the transmitting cache descriptors are used for controlling the transmitting process of the data frames, recording and returning a transmitting state; the receiving cache descriptors are used for controlling the reading of received data frames and returning a frame receiving state to the host. By the Ethernet MAC sublayer controller, the network access of embedded devices, the frame conflict retransmission and discard of bad frames are realized, and the utilization rate of cache in a chip is improved when short frames are received.

The invention discloses an FPGA implementation method of a multi-channel data source DDR buffer, including: hanging a plurality of DDR granules with the FPGA, randomly configuring the number of channels, and then arbitrating the DDR reading and writing of each channel, wnerein the arbitration rule is an arbitration rule through polling or matching the bandwidth. The invention buffers the data of each channel to the address space corresponding to each channel of the DDR, the address space size of each channel can be arbitrarily divided, the total address space size is the sum of the memory space of each DDR granule, and the channel data and the DDR are respectively transferred through asynchronous fifo. The invention flexibly and efficiently uses a plurality of DDR granules to carry out read-write arbitration on each channel, can carry out handover on the terminal domain channel when expanding a plurality of asynchronous clocks, flexibly matches the address space mapped by the cache DDR, and centralizes the cache data bandwidth of the plurality of DDRs to cache the arbitrated channel.

The invention relates to a fiber data transmission method based on an asynchronous communication mode. According to the method, an employed high speed data transmission circuit is realized by employing an internal function design mode of an FPGA chip, the realized logic functions comprise data generation, digital clock management, clock compensation, data detection, asynchronous FIFO caching based on Gray code counting and Aurora protocol logic control, and the functions of data generation, digital clock management, clock compensation, data detection and Aurora protocol logic control are realized by employing an FPGA standard setting mode. The method is characterized by realizing asynchronous FIFO caching based on Gray code counting, clock network generation and a transmission circuit function. The method employs a fiber data transmission method combining the asynchronous FIFO caching based on the Gray code counting mode with an Aurora protocol, and thereby data transmission accuracy is improved.

An asynchronous FIFO controller using dual-edge sampling to process control signal is composed of a leading edge processing module for using the leading edg eof clock signal as latch time to latch the first external control signal and ata, which along with the second external control signal and data from the falling edge processing module are used to output the third control signal and data, a falling edge processing module for using the falling edge of clock signal as latch time to latch the first external control signal and data, which along with the fourth external control signal and data from leading edge processing module are used to output the fifth control signal and data, an integrated processing module for outputting the sixth control signal and data, and memory for storing the sixth control signal and data.

An apparatus and method for controlling an asynchronous First-In-First-Out (FIFO) memory. The asynchronous FIFO has separate, free running read and write clocks. A number of n-bit circular Gray code counters are used to handshake the operation between read and write parts of the FIFO, wherein n is any integer more than one. Additional binary counters are used to accumulate the read and write overflows for the circular Gray code counters. When any circular Gray code counter is overflow, the read or write count is transferred to the respective binary counter for recording the FIFO accesses.

The invention relates to an asynchronous FIFO device. The asynchronous FIFO device comprises at least one of an asynchronous FIFO storage device, a first counter module which is capable of producing Gray codes and provided with a writing pointer, a second counter module which is capable of producing Gray codes and provided with a reading pointer, a first shifter which is capable of producing a virtual writing pointer by applying a first delay value to the writing pointer, and a second shifter which is capable of producing a virtual reading pointer by applying a second delay value to the reading pointer, and at least one of a first comparator and a second comparator, wherein the first comparator can output an 'occupied' referent according to the comparison between the writing pointer and the virtual reading pointer, and the second comparator can output an 'unoccupied' referent according to the comparison between the reading pointer and the virtual writing pointer. Therefore, the asynchronous FIFO device is improved.

The invention discloses an elastic buffer structure and a method applied to universal serial bus 3.0 (USB 3.0). The elastic buffer structure comprises an input check module, a binary code and Gray code read-write pointer generation module, a synchronization module, a read-write control module, a threshold value monitoring module and an output control module. According to the protocol requirement of the USB 3.0, by means of the analysis of an action mechanism of elastic buffer, asynchronous first in first out (FIFO) which has innovative functions of writing pointer shield, point jumping, breakpoint saving and handshake, output control and the like is used for designing the elastic buffer, and the purpose of clock frequency compensation is well achieved; and according to the designed elastic buffer, parallel 40-bit data are used, the read-write clock frequency can reach 125 MHz.

This invention discloses a digital asynchronous clock reconstructing device composed of a digital signal input interface, digital signal output interface, an asynchronous FIFO storage, a non-volatile storage, a general processor, a first clock distributor, a second clock distributor, a first bandpass filter, a second bandpass filter, a digital frequency synthesizer and a high speed crystal oscillator, in which, the clock inputting digit signals is independent of the clock outputting digital signals, and an asynchronous buffer system is used to lag the output data behind the input data, so that, when short period of frequency or phase differences exists, the DDS is used to re-generate output clock to distribute chips to further improve qualities of the output clocks, a general processor is used to tune the output frequency of the DDS to eliminate long time of frequency difference between input and output digital signal clocks to avoid overflow of the asynchronous buffer or empty.

The invention discloses a design method of a field bus optical fiber communication interface. The method includes: operations interfaces provided to a data link layer are two asynchronous FIFOs, and the two asynchronous FIFOs are a transmitting FIFO and a receiving FIFO; the number of 0 and 1 in the data of the transmitting FIFO is balanced after the data is subjected to 8b/10b encoding, and the high-speed serial data stream, after parallel-serial conversion, of the encoded 10bit parallel data is transmitted through an optical transceiver to complete a data transmitting function; the serial data oversampling module of a receiving part samples the received serial data and performs data recovery, the recovered data is transmitted to a word alignment and data monitoring module to obtain aligned 10bit data, a 8b/10b decoding module is used to recover the 10bit data into 8bit data, and the data is written to the asynchronous receiving FIFO through a receiving control module to complete a data receiving function.

The invention belongs to the storage technical field and discloses a bidirectional high speed FIFO storage implemented on the basis of FPGA. The bidirectional high speed FIFO storage comprises a first asynchronous bus interface module, a first communication box, a first unidirectional asynchronous FIFO read-write module, a second asynchronous bus interface module, a second communication box and a second unidirectional asynchronous FIFO read-write module. The function of the bidirectional high speed FIFO storage is similar to that of SN74ABT3614 produced by Texas instruments, and programmable output line width, synchronous or asynchronous input output clock and bidirectional mail box communication function can be realized. The invention has the advantages that: FPGA is utilized to realize bidirectional FIFO module, steady speed is fast, implementation is easy and occupying resource is less, occupancy rate of programmable logical module in Xilinx Spartan3 series FPGA is less than 7%, and integration with other logical functions is easy, thus being capable of effectively improving system integration, reducing system size and reducing power consumption.

The utility model relates to a multi-piece area array CCD (Charge Coupled Device) screening test system which is used for solving the problems that when being in the temperature circulation and power aging screening test, the existing area array CCD works continuously and the test period is long. When the system is used for shooting, the image data of each piece of area array CCD is integrated by taking every four pieces as a unit, so that the number of input data channels is reduced to be one fourth that of the original chips, the input data channels are stored in an SDRAM (Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory) in parallel, and after the shooting is finished, the image data is read channel by channel and stored in a hard disk of a host by a capture card so as to be distinguished. According to the multi-piece area array CCD screening test system, effective signals of the input and output image data are reconstructed, and a line blanking period and a frame blanking period are utilized fully so as to reduce the writing and reading frequencies; and three clock domains, two groups of asynchronous FIFO (First In First Out) and two groups of deserializers and serializers are adopted for realizing non-integer-time stable and reliable conversion of image data bits under the condition of high speed.

The invention discloses a multichannel LVDS time sequence alignment detector image collection method, comprising the following steps: configuring a delay parameter of a delay circuit of each channel according to a delay interval between multichannel LVDS signals output by a detector to realize primary time sequence alignment of the multichannel LVDS signals; adopting a preset serial-to-parallel conversion method to obtain a gray value of each channel according to different serialization factors, respectively caching pixel values collected by each channel by adopting asynchronous FIFO, and generating a complete picture according to an output logic rule of the detector; and detecting a regulation signal of main frequency of the detector, and adopting a preset word alignment and bit alignment algorithm to complete the real-time adjustment of an imaging mode. The multichannel LVDS time sequence alignment detector image collection method disclosed by the invention is easy to realize, high in precision, strong in universality, high in integration degree and strong in adaptive ability.