JPH11252132A - Data transmission device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To realize high speed and stable signal transmission by holding received data in sequential order at the timing of a plurality of strobe signals, sampling them with a reception-side clock whose frequency becomes similar to a transmission rate and synchronizing the data. SOLUTION: A multi-strobe generation circuit 52 generates a plurality of strobe signals S1-S3 whose strobe timings differ to a transmission line 4. On a reception-side circuit 6, three latch circuits 601-603 hold data DATA at the strobe timing of three strobe signals S1-S3. The respective latch circuits 601-603 continuously hold the same data until the strobe signals S1-S3 change at the next time. A sampling circuit samples the reception-side clock CLK of the frequency similar to that of the transmission rate of data DATA and synchronizes the data.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a data transmission device for connecting a circuit to a transmission line having a bus structure and transmitting data between the circuits.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art FIG. 3 is a block diagram of a data transmission device.
In FIG. 3, a transmission circuit 2 and a reception circuit 3 are connected to a transmission line 1 having a bus configuration. Data is transmitted from the transmission side circuit 2 to the reception side circuit 3 via the transmission line 1.

In such a data transmission device, the transmission side circuit 2 and the reception side circuit 3 operate with asynchronous clocks having different phases, and when transmitting a signal, data transmitted with the transmission side clock is received. The side must synchronize with the clock of the receiving side by some means.

[0004] In the case of transmitting data in the start-stop synchronization system in which only data is transmitted, the receiving side samples and synchronizes data using a clock faster than the data transfer rate. As a high-speed clock, a clock having a frequency of about 16 times the data transfer rate is usually used.

In the case of clock-synchronous transmission in which a clock is transmitted together with data, the receiving side writes data to a FIFO circuit with the transmitted clock, reads out the data from the FIFO circuit with the receiving side clock, and synchronizes.

[0006]

In the case of transmitting data in an asynchronous mode in which only data is transmitted, it is necessary for the receiving side to prepare a clock faster than the data transfer rate. For this reason, the data transfer rate must be lower than the clock frequency that can be prepared on the receiving side. As a result, there is a problem that high-speed signal transmission is difficult.

In the case of clock-synchronous transmission in which a clock is transmitted together with data, the receiving side writes data to the FIFO circuit using the transmitted clock, and therefore, if the signal waveform of the received clock is erroneous, erroneous data is transmitted to the FIFO circuit.
There is a risk of writing to the FO circuit. A signal transmitted between circuits connected to a transmission line having a bus configuration has a disturbed waveform due to the influence of a capacitive load of the transmission line and noise entering the transmission line, and it is difficult to transmit a stable signal at high speed.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve the above-mentioned problems. A transmitting circuit generates a plurality of strobe signals having different strobe timings, and a receiving circuit uses latch circuits as many as the number of strobe signals. It is an object of the present invention to provide a data transmission device which can realize high-speed and stable signal transmission by holding data in each latch circuit by using strobe signals one by one in order.

[0009]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a data transmission apparatus for connecting a circuit to a transmission line having a bus structure and transmitting data between the circuits. And a multi-strobe generating circuit for generating N (N is an integer) strobe signals having different strobe timings. The receiving-side circuit is provided with as many strobe signals as the number of strobe signals, and receives data transmitted from the transmitting circuit. N latch circuits that sequentially hold at the timing of N strobe signals, and data held by the latch circuits are sampled by a receiving clock having a frequency equivalent to the transmission rate of the transmission data. And a sampling circuit for synchronizing the data transmission.

[0010]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS The present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing one embodiment of the present invention. In FIG. 1, a transmission circuit 4 and a reception circuit 6 are connected to a transmission path 4. In the example of the figure, only one transmission-side circuit 5 and one reception-side circuit 6 are shown for convenience of explanation, but other numbers may be provided. In the transmission side circuit 5,
The transmission circuit 51 sends out the data DATA to the transmission line 4.
The multi-strobe generating circuit 52 generates N (N is an integer) strobe signals having different strobe timings on the transmission line 4. In the illustrated example, three strobe signals S1, S2, and S3 are generated.

In the receiving circuit 6, latch circuits 601, 60
2, 603 are provided by the number of strobe signals.
In the example of the figure, three are provided. The data transmitted from the transmission circuit 51 is sequentially held in the latch circuits 601, 602, and 603 at the timing of the strobe signals S1, S2, and S3. When there are N strobe signals, N latch circuits are also provided.

Multiplexers 611, 612, 613
Are supplied with outputs of the latch circuits 601, 602 and 603. The flip-flops 621, 622, and 623 are supplied with the selected outputs of the multiplexers 611, 612, and 613, and output their own outputs to the multiplexers 611 and 612.
612, 613. Multiplexer 63
Selects and outputs one of the outputs of the flip-flops 621, 622, and 623. This output is the synchronized data. The flip-flop 64 is a circuit for detecting the start of communication, and is set at the rising timing of the strobe signal S1. The flip-flop 65 synchronizes the strobe signal S1 with the receiving clock CLK. The receiving clock CLK has a frequency equivalent to the transmission rate of the data DATA. The control circuit 66 controls the flip-flop 6
5, the switching control of the multiplexers 611, 612, 613, and 63 and the reset operation of the flip-flop 64 at the end of communication are performed.

Multiplexers 611, 612, 613,
63, flip-flops 621, 622, 623, 6
4, 65 and the control circuit 66, the latch circuits 601,
A sampling circuit is configured to synchronize the data by sampling the data held in 602 and 603 with a receiving clock CLK having a frequency equivalent to the transmission rate of the data DATA.

The operation of the embodiment shown in FIG. 1 will be described. FIG. 2 is a signal time chart of the embodiment of FIG. Three strobe signals S1, S2 and S3 are prepared. The strobe signal goes high when no communication is performed. The time when the strobe signal rises from a low level to a high level is the timing for strobe data. The transmission side circuit 5 includes data DATA and three strobe signals S
1, S2, and S3 are driven to transmit data.

In the receiving circuit 6, the three latch circuits 601, 602 and 603 hold data DATA at the strobe timing of the three strobe signals S1, S2 and S3. In the example of FIG. 2, the latch circuits 601, 602, 60
3 holds data "A", "B", and "C". Each of the latch circuits 601, 602, and 603 keeps holding the same data until the strobe signal changes next time. For example, the latch circuit 601 keeps holding the data “A” after holding the data “A” until the strobe signal S1 becomes low level.

The sampling circuit includes a latch circuit 601,
The data held in 602 and 603 is sampled by the receiving clock CLK having the same frequency as the transmission rate of the data DATA, and the data is synchronized. Receiver clock C
Although LK is asynchronous with the strobe signals S1, S2, and S3, sampling may be performed with the receiving clock CLK before the data held in the latch circuits 601, 602, and 603 changes. For example, the data “A” may be sampled by the receiving clock CLK while the latch circuit 601 holds the data “A”. For this reason, it is sufficient for the receiving side clock CLK to have a frequency equivalent to the transmission rate of the data DATA.

[0018]

As described above, according to the present invention, the following effects can be obtained.

According to the first aspect of the invention, the following effects can be obtained. The transmitting side circuit only transmits data using the N strobe signals one by one in order. For this reason, the transmission side circuit can be realized with the same circuit scale as the conventional one.

The receiving side circuit prepares N latch circuits corresponding to the N strobe signals, and holds data for each strobe signal. For this reason, the data held by the latch circuit is held until the strobe signal applied to the latch circuit changes next time. Thus, the receiving clock for sampling the data held in the latch circuit may be asynchronous with a different phase from the transmitting clock, and a frequency equivalent to the data transmission rate is sufficient. For this reason, in the present invention, there is no need to prepare a clock faster than the transmission rate as in the case of transmission in start-stop synchronization. As a result, it is not necessary to make the transmission rate lower than the frequency of the clock prepared on the receiving side, and high-speed communication can be performed.

The sampling flip-flops and control circuits on the receiving side all operate on the receiving side clock, and do not have a FIFO circuit or control circuit that operates using the received strobe signal as the clock. As a result, even if the waveform of the strobe signal is disturbed by the influence of the capacitive load or noise of the transmission path, the receiving side circuit does not malfunction and stable signal transmission can be guaranteed.

As described above, according to the present invention, high-speed and stable signal transmission can be realized.

[0023]

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram showing one embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating the operation of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a configuration diagram of a data transmission device.

[Explanation of symbols]

Reference Signs List 4 transmission path 5 transmission side circuit 6 reception side circuit 51 transmission circuit 52 multi-strobe generation circuit 601, 602, 603 latch circuit 64, 65, 621, 622, 623 flip-flop 63.611, 612, 613 multiplexer 66 control circuit

Claims (1)

[Claims] In a data transmission apparatus for connecting circuits to a transmission path having a bus configuration and transmitting data between the circuits, a transmission circuit includes a transmission circuit for transmitting data and a transmission circuit having a different strobe timing. A multi-strobe generating circuit for generating a number (N is an integer) of strobe signals, and the receiving side circuits are provided by the number of strobe signals, and the data transmitted from the transmitting circuit is transmitted at the timing of the N strobe signals. An N number of latch circuits for sequentially holding the data, and a sampling circuit for synchronizing the data held by the latch circuit by sampling the data held by the latch circuit with a receiving clock having a frequency equivalent to the transmission rate of the transmission data A data transmission device, comprising: