INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DEVICE INCLUDING WAKE-UP CONTROL CIRCUIT AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME

• US 20180004541A1
• Filed: 12/29/2016
• Published: 01/04/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 07/01/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: JANG, Jaehyeok, LEE, Yae Seul, PARK, Sang-Yong, YOU, Tae Sun, HWANG, Seong Wook
• Granted Patent: US 10,255,079 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3206 Monitoring of events, devices or parameters that trigger a change in power modality
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/324 by lowering clock frequency
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3287 by switching off individual functional units in the computer system
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 13/24 using interrupt G06F13/32 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 13/4022 using switching circuits, e.g. switching matrix, connection or expansion network G06F13/4009 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 13/4291 using a clocked protocol
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/4418 Suspend and resume; Hibernate and awake
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 10/00 Energy efficient computing, e.g. low power processors, power management or thermal management

Abstract

An integrated circuit device is provided. The integrated circuit device may include a central processing unit (CPU) configured to operate in one of a plurality of modes and a wake-up control circuit configured to control the CPU. The wake-up control circuit may include a clock generator configured to generate an internal clock signal, a multiplexer configured to select a signal from among an external signal and the internal clock signal and to provide the CPU with the selected signal as an operating clock signal, and a controller configured to control the CPU and the clock generator based on the external signal.

Claims

1. An integrated circuit device comprising:

a central processing unit (CPU) configured to operate in one of a plurality of modes; and

a wake-up control circuit configured to control the CPU, the wake-up control circuit comprising;

a clock generator configured to generate an internal clock signal,

a multiplexer configured to select a signal from among an external signal and the internal clock signal and to provide the CPU with the selected signal as an operating clock signal, and

a controller configured to control the CPU and the clock generator based on the external signal.

2. The integrated circuit device of claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to function as a finite state machine (FSM) and count edges of the external signal.

3. The integrated circuit device of claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to count edges of the external signal and generate a clock enable signal to activate the clock generator when a count value of the controller reaches a first reference value, and

wherein the clock generator is configured to generate the internal clock signal based on the clock enable signal and output the internal clock signal to the multiplexer.

4. The integrated circuit device of claim 3, wherein the controller is further configured to output a wake-up signal to the CPU when the count value of the controller reaches a second reference value greater than the first reference value such that an operation of the CPU changes from a first mode to a second mode of the plurality of modes according to the wake-up signal.

5. The integrated circuit device of claim 4, wherein the controller is further configured to output a switch signal to the multiplexer when the count value of the controller reaches a third reference value greater than the second reference value such that the multiplexer selects the internal clock signal according to the switch signal and provides the CPU the selected signal as the operating clock signal.

6. The integrated circuit device of claim 5, wherein the first and second reference values are set based on an interrupt-request (IRQ) time of the CPU and an initialization time of the clock generator.

7. The integrated circuit device of claim 5, wherein the second and third reference values are set based on an interrupt-request (IRQ) time of the CPU, an initialization time of the clock generator, and a switching time of the multiplexer.

8. The integrated circuit device of claim 1, wherein the plurality modes includes a first mode and a second mode, and

wherein the first mode is a low-power mode which decreases power consumption of an application processor and the second mode is a normal mode in which the application processor operates normally.

9. The integrated circuit device of claim 1, wherein the external signal has been encoded using bipolar mark code (BMC).

10. The integrated circuit device of claim 1, further comprising an interface implemented as a universal serial bus (USB) power delivery integrated circuit.

11. An electronic system comprising:

an electronic device; and

at least one integrated circuit device connected to the electronic device through an inter integrated circuit (I2C) interface, the at least one integrated circuit device comprising;

a central processing unit (CPU) configured to operate in one of a plurality of modes,

a clock generator configured to generate an internal clock signal,

a controller configured to control the CPU and the clock generator by receiving serial data and a serial clock signal, and

a multiplexer configured to select one of the serial clock signal and the internal clock signal and to provide the CPU with the selected signal as an operating clock signal,

wherein the controller is configured to compare an identification (ID) received from the electronic device with an address of the at least one integrated circuit device.

12. The electronic system of claim 11, wherein the controller is further configured to detect a start flag generated based on the serial data and the serial clock signal.

13. The electronic system of claim 12, wherein the controller is further configured to, when the controller detects the start flag, generate a clock enable signal, and

wherein the clock generator is configured to generate the internal clock signal according to the clock enable signal and output the internal clock signal to the multiplexer.

14. The electronic system of claim 13, wherein the controller is configured to, after the controller generates the clock enable signal generate a wake-up signal, and

wherein the CPU is configured to start a wake-up sequence according to the wake-up signal.

15. The electronic system of claim 14, wherein the controller is configured to, after the controller generates the wake-up signal, generate a switch signal, and

wherein the multiplexer is configured to select one of the serial clock signal and the internal clock signal according to the switch signal and provide the CPU with the selected signal as the operating clock signal.

16. The electronic system of claim 11, wherein the at least one integrated circuit device is continuously provided with the serial clock signal when a read operation of the electronic device is periodically repeated.

17. The electronic system of claim 11, wherein the controller is further configured to function as a finite state machine (FSM) and count edges of the serial clock signal.

18. The electronic system of claim 17, wherein the controller is configured to count edges of the serial clock signal and generate a clock enable signal to activate the clock generator when the count value of the controller reaches a first reference value, and

wherein the clock generator is configured to generate the internal clock signal based on the clock enable signal and output the internal clock signal to the multiplexer.

19. The electronic system of claim 18, wherein the controller is configured to output a wake-up signal to the CPU when the count value of the controller reaches a second reference value such that an operation of the CPU changes from a first mode to a second mode of the plurality of modes according to the wake-up signal, and

wherein the first mode is a low-power mode which decreases power consumption of the CPU and the second mode is a normal mode in which the CPU operates normally.

20. The electronic system of claim 19, wherein the controller is configured to output a switch signal to the multiplexer when the count value of the controller reaches a third reference value greater than the second reference value such that the multiplexer selects one of the serial clock signal and the internal clock signal according to the switch signal and provides the CPU the selected signal as the operating clock signal.

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