280 results about "Source-synchronous" patented technology

A system may perform interconnect BIST (IBIST) testing on source synchronous links. The system may perform, at normal operating frequency, a source synchronous link test that tests a victim line on the source synchronous link using a transition weave pattern. The transition weave pattern causes interaction between a data transition on the victim line, previous transitions on the victim line, and transitions on the other lines of the link (the “aggressor” lines). The interaction caused may be: (i) a first crossing pulse on the victim line; (ii) a second crossing pulse of the opposite polarity on each aggressor line concurrent with the first crossing pulse on the victim line; and (iii) a reflection in the opposite direction of the first transition of the first crossing pulse, wherein the reflection results from a previous transition on the victim line.

A memory for storing data information and/or a controller for controlling read/write operations of the memory based on a source synchronous interface are provided. During the read/write operations, a command and an address are provided to the memory together with the first strobe signal. The memory may latch the command and address in response to the first strobe signal. During a read operation, the memory responds to a received second strobe signal to generate a third strobe signal. The memory outputs data from the memory and the third strobe signal, for example, so that the output data may be latched with the third strobe signal by the memory controller.

A high-definition multimedia interface (HDMI) receiver recovers high speed encoded data which are transmitted differentially over data channels of a lossy cable, along with a clock. Inter symbol interference, high-frequency loss, skew between the clock and data channels, and differential skew within a differential signal are compensated by analog circuits which are automatically tuned for best performance by observing the quality of the recovered analog signal. Oversampling is used to provide a 24-bit digital representation of the analog signal for determining the quality of the signal. A corresponding method of deskewing a differential signal and a system and circuit therefor are also provided.

The invention relates to a multi-scene streaming media courseware recording and direct-broadcasting method, which is characterized in that a recorded teacher camera video multimedia file is synchronized with a screen video multimedia file through a screen video key frame interpolation algorithm in recording; real-time video stream and real-time audio stream are coded to a transport stream (TS) file by synchronously encapsulating and multiplexing a video (PES) photoelectric scanning packet and an audio PES packet to be distributed to a web direct-broadcasting server, the teacher camera video and the screen video are synchronously broadcasted through the multi-video-source synchronous direct-broadcasting control. The method supports the windows/Linux cross-platform run and also supports the multi-source recording and stream direct-broadcasting technology of the teacher camera video, the teacher audio and the screen video, and the media courseware can be directly broadcasted while being recorded.

A circuit arrangement and method are used in connection with a data latch that is coupled to a data source over a source synchronous communications interface to disable the data latch from latching data whenever the data source is not driving the source synchronous data strobe signal. As such, when the data source is not driving the source synchronous data strobe signal, undesired and/or inadvertent latching by the data latch can be avoided. Moreover, in implementations where a data strobe signal line is bidirectional, and capable of being driven either by the data source or by another circuit used to access the data source (e.g., a memory controller), disabling data latching as described herein can minimize the risk of driver damage resulting from conflicting attempts to drive the data strobe signal line at both ends.

A method for optimizing a source synchronous clock reference signal timing to capture data from a memory device (e.g., DDR SDRAM) includes conducting an iterative two-dimensional data eye search for optimizing the delay of the source synchronous clock reference signal (e.g., DQS). Embodiments of the present invention are directed to tuning the delay for each device for the optimal margin in two dimensions: maximize the distance from the data eye walls and maximize the noise margin on the interface. An iterative data eye search is performed while varying the DQS delay timing and noise margin.

A bus device comprises a clock generator that is adapted to generate a clock signal for internal use by the bus device, data synchronizing logic that is adapted to synchronize source synchronous data that the bus device receives from the bus to the bus device's clock signal, and error detection and correction logic coupled to the data synchronizing logic. The error detection and correction logic is adapted to detect and correct errors associated with the data received from the bus concurrently while the data synchronizing logic synchronizes source synchronous data received from the bus to the clock signal.

A method and apparatus for operating a source synchronous receiver. In one embodiment, a source synchronous receiver may include a clock receiver comprising a clock detector and a clock signal buffer. The clock detector may be configured to detect a first clock signal and assert a clock detect signal responsive to detecting the first clock signal. The clock buffer may receive the first clock signal and produce a second clock signal, which may be driven to a digital locked loop (DLL) circuit, where the second clock signal is regenerated and driven to a data buffer of the source synchronous receiver. The clock detect signal may be received by a clock verification circuit. The clock verification circuit may be configured to initiate a reset of the source synchronous receiver upon a failure to receive the clock detect signal. The resetting of the source synchronous receiver may be performed locally, and does not reset the core logic of the device in which it is implemented, nor any other source synchronous port on the device. Thus, other source synchronous ports on the device, as well as the core logic, may be able to continue operations as normal. The method and apparatus may include a source synchronous receiver that is hot-swappable.

A high-definition multimedia interface (HDMI) receiver recovers high speed encoded data which are transmitted differentially over data channels of a lossy cable, along with a clock. Inter symbol interference, high-frequency loss, skew between the clock and data channels, and differential skew within a differential signal are compensated by analog circuits which are automatically tuned for best performance by observing the quality of the recovered analog signal. Oversampling is used to provide a 24-bit digital representation of the analog signal for determining the quality of the signal.

A source-synchronous parallel interface divides a wide data bus into clock-groups including a sub-group of the data lines and a clock line carrying a copy of the transmit clock. The traces in a clock-group are located physically close together to minimize skew between the signals carried on the traces of the clock-group. Deskew logic on the receiver compensates for skew between received clock-group signals.

The invention is suitable for the digital communication field, and provides a high-speed parallel interface circuit. The high-speed parallel interface circuit comprises a low voltage differential signaling (LVDS) receiving module, a data sampling module, a data restoring module and a word synchronization module, wherein the LVDS receiving module receives and shapes data; the data sampling module is connected with the LVDS receiving module and samples the data output by the LVDS receiving module under a plurality of phase clocks; the data restoring module is connected with the data sampling module, selects optimal sampling data from oversampling data output from the data sampling module and restores original data by non return to zero inverse (NRZI) decoding; and the word synchronization module is connected with the data restoring module and carries out shift adjustment to the data output by the data restoring module. In the high-speed parallel interface circuit, oversampling and word synchronization are combined to carry out accurate sampling restoration and synchronization to source-synchronous parallel data; and data in the center of an effective window can be dynamically and accurately sampled and restored in real time by dynamically synchronizing, filtering, discriminating phase, selecting the oversampling data and the like.

Data transfer scheme wherein data transfer rates can be effectively doubled with no increase in the clock speed of the interface. This is accomplished by allowing more than one data transfer to occur on a single clock cycle. This transfer scheme increases the transfer rate of the interface by multiplexing two data groups on the same interface. These data groups are transmitted from a source phase latch at approximately the same time as two strobe signals which have low skew with respect to the data. The master and slave strobe signals are logically combined to create an even latch enable signal and an odd latch enable signal that are used to latch and de-multiplex the multiplexed data groups at a receiving end of a pair of flow-though source synchronous latches.

The invention discloses a method for switching four-LINK LVDS video signals into MIPI video signals. The method comprises the steps of respectively receiving and demodulating video signals of each link of four-LINK LVDS video signals so as to generate parallel demodulation data of four links and an LVDS pixel clock; conducting video decoding on the parallel demodulation data of the four links to generate LVDS video source signals of the four links, and switching the LVDS pixel clock into an LVDS video source pixel clock, wherein the LVDS video source signals of each link comprise LVDS video source data and LVDS video source synchronous signals; using the LVDS video source pixel clock to sample and cache the LVDS video source signals of the four links at the same time, and switching the LVDS video source signals into RGB video signals; switching the RGB video signals into MIPI video signals. The method has the advantages of being simple in operation, high in detection efficiency, and low in cost.

An apparatus for locking out a source synchronous strobe receiver, including a delay-locked loop (DLL) and receivers. The DLL receives a reference clock, and generates a select vector and an encoded select vector. The select vector is employed to select a delayed version of the reference clock that lags the reference clock by a prescribed number of cycles. The select vector is reduced by an amount and is gray encoded to indicate the lockout time. The receivers are each coupled to the delay-locked loop. Each of the receivers receives the encoded select vector and a corresponding strobe, and locks out reception of the corresponding strobe for the lockout time following transition of the corresponding strobe. The encoded select vector is employed by a gray code mux therein to determine the lockout time by selecting a delayed version of the corresponding strobe.

A device configured to recover and repeat source synchronous data. The device is configured to receive source synchronous data via a first interface and recover the received data utilizing a first clock signal which is generated to be approximately ninety degrees out of phase with the received clock signal. A second clock signal is generated to be in phase with the received source synchronous clock signal. The second clock signal is the utilized to select a newly generated clock signal and latched data for transmission in a source synchronous manner. The device is further configured to shift the phase of the generated first clock signal to be approximately ninety degrees out of phase with the received data signal.

The invention relates to a FPGA signal processing board, belonging to the technical field of digital signal processing. The processing board comprises one power supply module, four FPGA processing sub modules, one FPGA transmit-receive module, one interconnect chip set module and one FPGA load application module, the FPGA processing sub module and the FPGA transmit-receive module are connected by full interconnect mode, the interconnect bandwidth between every two modules is as high as 1.6 B/s. The processing board can implement the external multiple high speed interfaces and load the DDR SDRAM with capacity of 4GB by PCI bus, Rapid IO bus and source synchronous interface, the storage bandwidth is as high as 10688 MB/s. the FPGA on the board has flexible configuring mode by adopting the DSP+CPLD+NAND configuring combination. The invention is suitable for the condition with harsh signal processing real time performance requirement, such as radar signal processing, image processing and communication base station and so on.

A device configured to recover and repeat source synchronous data. In one embodiment, the device is configured to receive source synchronous data via a first interface, recover the received data utilizing a corresponding received source synchronous clock signal, and transmit the recovered data and a corresponding clock signal in a source synchronous manner. In one embodiment, the device is configured to operate as a repeater without benefit of an internal clock signal. In addition, the device may be configured to remove data jitter and renew or restore amplitude to attenuated signals prior to retransmission.

A data capture technique for high speed signaling to allow for optimal sampling of an asynchronous data stream. This technique allows for extremely high data rates and does not require that a clock be sent with the data as is done in source synchronous systems. The present invention also provides a hardware mechanism for automatically adjusting transmission delays for optimal two-bit simultaneous bi-directional (SiBiDi) signaling.

A method for verifying a source-synchronous communication interface of a processor is disclosed. A software model of a first device having a source-synchronous communication interface and a software model of a second device capable of communicating with the first device via the source-synchronous communication interface are provided. The source-synchronous communication interface includes an applied clock line, an address line, an echo clock line, and a data line. A simulation of a data request from the first device model to the second device model via an applied clock signal along with an address on the applied clock line and the address line is initially performed. The requested data is then received by the first device model from the second device model via the data line after various delays between the applied clock signal and an echo clock signal on the applied clock line and the echo clock line, respectively. Finally, the requested data received by the first device model is verified as to its veracity.

A source-synchronous capture unit on a receiving circuit includes a first first-in-first-out (FIFO) unit operable to synchronize a write enable signal to generate a synchronized write enable signal that is synchronized with a first free running clock associated with a memory external to the receiving circuit. The write enable sign is generated in response to a read operation by the receiving circuit. The source-synchronous capture unit also includes a second FIFO unit operable to store data from the memory in response to the first free running clock and the synchronized write enable signal, and to output the data in response to a second free running clock associated with the receiving circuit and a read enable signal.