Receiver circuit

• US 20110142119A1
• Filed: 12/13/2010
• Published: 06/16/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 12/16/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
• Original Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
• Inventors: Aoki, Yasushi
• Granted Patent: US 8,483,263 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 375/230
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2025/03356 Baseband transmission
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2025/03681 Control of adaptation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 25/03885 adaptive

Abstract

A receiver circuit includes an equalizer circuit that adjusts reception intensity of an input signal based on an intensity adjustment value to generate a correction input signal; a first holding unit that holds a plurality of data items sampled based on a sampling clock for sampling values of the data items transmitted by the correction input signal in a receiving order; a second holding unit that holds a plurality of values of the correction input signal sampled based on a complementary sampling clock for sampling a boundary value of the data items in a receiving order; and an equalizer control circuit that judges the strength of reception intensity of the correction input signal based on a plurality of output signals of the first holding unit and a plurality of output signals of the second holding unit to update the intensity adjustment value based on the judgment result.

Claims

1. A receiver circuit comprising:

an equalizer circuit that adjusts reception intensity of an input signal based on an intensity adjustment value to generate a correction input signal;

a first holding unit that holds a plurality of data items sampled based on a sampling clock for sampling values of the data items transmitted by the correction input signal in a receiving order;

a second holding unit that holds a plurality of values of the correction input signal sampled based on a complementary sampling clock for sampling a boundary value of the data items in a receiving order; and

an equalizer control circuit that judges the strength of reception intensity of the correction input signal based on a plurality of output signals of the first holding unit and a plurality of output signals of the second holding unit to update the intensity adjustment value based on the judgment result,

wherein the equalizer control circuit judges the strength of the reception intensity based on the plurality of values held in the second holding unit when first data that is held at the earliest timing by the first holding unit and second data held subsequent to the first data have the same polarity.

2. The receiver circuit according to claim 1, wherein

the first holding unit includes the first and the second data, and third and fourth data that are subsequent to the second data, and

the second holding unit at least holds first boundary data corresponding to a boundary value of the second data and the third data, and second boundary data corresponding to a boundary value of the third data and the fourth data.

3. The receiver circuit according to claim 2, wherein, in a state in which the first data and the second data have the same polarity, the equalizer control circuit judges that the reception intensity is low to update the reception intensity value so as to make the reception intensity higher when the first boundary data and the second boundary data have different polarity from the third data, and judges that the reception intensity is high to update the reception intensity value so as to make the reception intensity lower when the first boundary data and the second boundary data have the same polarity to the third data.

4. The receiver circuit according to claim 1, wherein the equalizer control circuit comprises:

an intensity judgment result filter circuit that holds an accumulated value obtained by accumulating the judgment results of the reception intensity, and outputs an intensity reinforcement signal or an intensity suppression signal that instructs update of the reception intensity value according to the accumulated value reaching an upper-limit value or an lower-limit value; and

an intensity updating circuit that updates the reception intensity value according to the intensity reinforcement signal or the intensity suppression signal,

wherein the intensity judgment result filter circuit resets the accumulated value to an initial value according to the accumulated value reaching the predetermined value.

5. The receiver circuit according to claim 1, wherein the first holding unit and the second holding unit each constitute a shift register having a plurality of flip-flops connected in series, and each of output signals of the plurality of flip-flops is output to the equalizer control circuit.

6. The receiver circuit according to claim 1, wherein

the equalizer control circuit receives an adjustment stop signal,

when updating before the adjustment stop signal is in an enable state is update processing to make the intensity adjustment value larger, the equalizer control circuit maintains the intensity adjustment value at a time at which the adjustment stop signal in the enable state is input, and

when updating before the adjustment stop signal is in the enable state is update processing to make the intensity adjustment value smaller, the equalizer control circuit maintains the intensity adjustment value after update processing after the intensity adjustment value at a time at which the adjustment stop signal in the enable state is input is updated to a value that is larger by one stage.

7. The receiver circuit according to claim 1, further comprising a clock phase control circuit that adjusts phases of the sampling clock and the complementary sampling clock based on a plurality of output signals of the first holding unit and a plurality of output signals of the second holding unit, wherein

the clock phase control circuit delays phases of the sampling clock and the complementary sampling clock when the second data and the first boundary data are different from each other and the third data and the second boundary data are different from each other, and

the clock phase control circuit advances phases of the sampling clock and the complementary sampling clock when the third data and the first boundary data are different from each other and the fourth data and the second boundary data are different from each other.

8. The receiver circuit according to claim 7, wherein the clock phase control circuit comprises:

a phase judgment result filter circuit that holds an accumulated value obtained by accumulating the judgment results of the phase, and outputs a phase delay instruction signal or a phase advance signal that specifies the phases of the sampling clock and the complementary sampling clock according to the accumulated value reaching a predetermined upper-limit value or lower-limit value; and

a phase adjustment circuit that controls phases of the sampling clock and the complementary sampling clock according to the phase delay instruction signal or the phase advance instruction signal, wherein

the phase judgment result filter circuit resets the accumulated value to an initial value according to the accumulated value reaching the predetermined value.