USB device, data transfer system and data transfer method

• US 10,218,468 B2
• Filed: 07/01/2017
• Issued: 02/26/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 09/14/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
• Original Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
• Inventors: Sakaki, Makoto
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Steve N
• Application Number:
  US15/640,472
• Publication Number:
  US 20180076933A1
• Time in Patent Office: 605 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 13/385 for adaptation of a particular data processing system to different peripheral devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 13/4295 using an embedded synchronisation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0061 Error detection codes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/08 by repeating transmission, e.g. Verdan system H04L1/1858 and H04L1/189 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/22 Parsing or analysis of headers

Abstract

To prevent an increase in a circuit configuration that is used for a case in which when a header is incorrect under a specific condition, a correctly-received payload is kept and only the header is resent. A USB device according to the present disclosure includes a first processing unit configured to, when a predetermined error is included in a first header of a first packet received from a host apparatus, discard the first header and transmit a first payload of the first packet to a subsequent stage, and a second processing unit configured to discard the first payload received from the first processing unit and transmit a first packet resending request to the host apparatus.

Claims

1. A USB device comprising:

a first processing unit configured to, when a predetermined error is included in a first header of a first packet received from a host apparatus, discard the first header and transmit a first payload of the first packet to a subsequent stage; and

a second processing unit configured to discard the first payload received from the first processing unit and transmit a first packet resending request to the host apparatus.

2. The USB device according to claim 1, wherein

when the first processing unit discards the first header, the first processing unit transmits a pseudo correct reception response to the host apparatus, and

the second processing unit discards the first payload and transmits a first packet resending request to the host apparatus.

3. The USB device according to claim 1, wherein

the first processing unit is configured to, when the predetermined error is included in the first header, transmit a first header resending request to the host apparatus, receive a second header of a second packet with no payload that is transmitted from the host apparatus in response to the first header resending request, and transmit the second header to the second processing unit when the received second header is correct, and

the second processing unit is configured to, when the second header is received from the first processing unit, transmits the first packet resending request to the host apparatus.

4. A host apparatus configured to transmit the first packet to a USB device according to claim 3, wherein

when the host apparatus receives a first header resending request from the first processing unit, the host apparatus suspends transmission of the first payload and starts transmission of the second packet.

5. The host apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the host apparatus conforms to a USB (Universal Serial Bus) 3.1 Gen 2.

6. The USB device according to claim 1, wherein

the first processing unit is a link layer in conformity with a USB (Universal Serial Bus) 3.1 Gen 2, and

the second processing unit is a protocol layer in conformity with the USB 3.1 Gen 2.

7. The USB device according to claim 6, wherein the predetermined error means that a CRC of the first header has an erroneous value and a Length Field Replica field has a correct value.

8. A data transfer system comprising:

a host apparatus configured to transmit a first packet; and

a USB device configured to receive the first packet from the host apparatus, wherein

the USB device comprises;

a first processing unit configured to, when a predetermined error is included in a first header of the first packet, discard the first header and transmit a first payload of the first packet to a subsequent stage; and

a second processing unit configured to discard the first payload received from the first processing unit and transmit a first packet resending request to the host apparatus.

9. The data transfer system according to claim 8, wherein when the host apparatus receives a first header resending request from the first processing unit, the host apparatus suspends transmission of the first payload and starts transmission of a second packet with no payload.

10. A data transfer method for transferring data from a host apparatus to a USB device, comprising:

discarding, in a first processing unit of the USB device, when a predetermined error is included in a first header of a first packet received from the host apparatus, the first header and transmitting a first payload of the first packet to a subsequent stage; and

discarding, in a second processing unit which is the subsequent stage, the first payload received from the first processing unit and transmitting a first packet resending request to the host apparatus.