Abstract:
A switching circuit for switching an output (CKS) to one of a plurality of N input clock signals (CK1-CKN) which are delayed relative to one another comprises circuit means (31-316, 7) responding to a control (CNT) in order to enable the transmission, on the output signal (CKS), of a new signal (CK(i-1); CKi) of the plurality of input signals which is advanced or delayed relative to a current signal (CKi; CK(i-1)) of the plurality of input signals which is currently transmitted on the output signal (CKS), the circuit means (31-316, 7) enabling the transmission of the new signal (CK(i-1); CKi) before disabling the transmission of the current signal (CKi; CK(i-1)) on the output signal (CKS) so as to prevent the production of false signals during the switching of the output signal from one of the clock signals to another.
Abstract:
The present invention relates a circuit for generating a digital output signal (56) locked to a phase of an input signal (24), comprising a plurality of delay cells (42), a first register (31) containing a first value, a phase detector (26) and a control logic (25), which is characterized by comprising a plurality of flip - flop devices (37, ..., 38), wherein storing said first value, a second register (30) containing a second value, a plurality of adder nodes (33) adapted to sum in each of said delay cells (42) said second value with the content of said selected flip - flop device (37, ..., 38), being said delay cells (42) adapted to provide said digital output signal (56), said phase detector (26), receiving said input signal (24) and said digital output signal (56), adapted to detect the phase difference (27) between said input signal and said digital output signal (56), said control logic (25) adapted to control said first and second value in function of said phase difference (27).
Abstract:
The present invention refers to a method and to an equalizer circuit of signals transmitted on a line. In an embodiment the equaliser circuit of signals transmitted on a line having an attenuation comprising: an analogical adaptive filter (1) applied in series to said line comprises at least two transconductance filters having a bias current (Pc1-Pcn) each and to which it is associated at least one pole and at least one zero the position in frequency of which in the working band (B) is variable in response to said bias current (Pc1-Pcn); a retroaction circuit (3, 4, 5, 6, 7) applied to the output of said filter (1) able to vary said bias current (Pc1-Pcn); said bias current (Pc1-Pcn) varies at the varying of said attenuation of said line; characterised in that said at least two transconductance filters have said bias current of prefixed value; said bias current is made to vary at the increasing of said attenuation so that said at least one pole is moved toward the high frequencies; said bias current is made to vary at the increasing of said attenuation so that said at least a zero is moved toward the low frequencies.
Abstract:
The difference between the Vgs voltages of a first MOS transistor (Mp) and a second MOS transistor (Mn) of an integrated circuit due to variations in the production process and/or to variations of other parameters is compensated by a circuit (10) comprising a third MOS transistor (Mp1) and a fourth MOS transistor (Mn1) which are of the same type as the first transistor (Mp) and the second transistor (Mn), respectively, and are formed in the same integrated circuit, means (VDD, Mp2, Mp3) for biasing the third transistor (Mp1) and the fourth transistor (Mn1), means (Mp4-Mp7) for measuring the difference between the Vgs voltages of the third transistor (Mp1) and the fourth transistor (Mn1), means (R1) for generating a compensation current (Io) which is a predetermined function of the difference measured, and means (Sp1-Sp3, Ro) for modifying the biasing of the first MOS transistor (Mp) and of the second MOS transistor (Mn) with the use of the compensation current (Io).
Abstract:
A detector for detecting timing in a digital data flow (BK) with a bit-time equal to T and with a coding which provides, at the beginning of the bit-time T, for no transition or for a transition of a first type or a transition of a second type and, in the middle of the bit-time T, for no transition or for a transition of the first type, comprises first circuit means (2) for generating four local timing signals (Q1-Q4) which have periods substantially equal to the bit-time and are out of phase with one another by 1/4 period, and second circuit means (3) for sampling the four local timing signals (Q1-Q4) upon each transition of the first type in the data flow and for determining, on the basis of the sampled states of the four local timing signals (Q1-Q4), whether a pair of reference signals (Q1-Q3) which are out of phase by one half period, of the four local timing signals (Q1-Q4), is advanced or delayed relative to the timing of the data flow, and consequently controlling the first circuit means in a manner such as to delay or to advance the four local timing signals (Q1-Q4).
Abstract:
A delay-locked loop circuit ("DLL") comprises a delay line (1) with a delay (Δt) which can be varied in a controlled manner in order to delay a periodic input signal (CKin) of period T, and circuit means (2, 7) for controlling the delay line (1) in order to lock the delay (Δt) to the period T. The delay line (1) supplies to the control circuit means (2, 7) a plurality of periodic signals (CK1-CKN) each delayed relative to the periodic input signal by a respective fraction of the delay (Δt), and the control circuit means (2, 7) comprise sequence-detector circuit means (2) which can periodically detect, in the delayed signals, characteristic sequences of digital values indicative of the delay (Δt) and, in dependence on the type of characteristic sequence, can bring about a reduction or an increase in the delay (Δt) for locking to the period T.