Data transmission device

• US 6,891,901 B2
• Filed: 01/03/2001
• Issued: 05/10/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 01/14/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Lantiq Beteiligungs-GmbH & Company KG (Intel Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
• Inventors: Heise, Bernd
• Primary Examiner(s): Chin, Stephen
• Assistant Examiner(s): Vartanian, Harry
• Application Number:
  US10/181,398
• Publication Number:
  US 20030118124A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,588 Days
• Field of Search: 375/296, 379/399.01, 379/413
• US Class Current: 375/296
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 25/0272 Arrangements for coupling to multiple lines, e.g. for differential transmission
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 25/028 Arrangements specific to the transmitter end
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 25/10 Compensating for variations in line balance

Abstract

An output signal to be transmitted via an especially two wire transmission line (A, B), which is composed of a transmission signal and a DC supply voltage, is generated by a data transmission device especially designed in the form of a SLIC circuit. Using a control circuit (5-8), which tracks the DC supply voltage on the output side of the transmission device (1-3) in such a manner that the level of the DC supply voltage does not decrease, it is possible to ensure that both the specified requirements concerning the maximally admissible DC voltage drop as well as the specified requirements concerning the reflection attenuation are met.

Claims

1. A data transmission device for generating an output signal to be transmitted via a transmission line, the output signal including a transmission signal and a direct current (DC) supply voltage, comprising:

a first terminal allocated to a first wire of the transmission line;

a second terminal allocated to a second wire of the transmission line;

a first output driver for generating a first split signal to be transmitted via the first wire of the transmission line;

a second output driver for generating a second split signal to be transmitted via the second wire or the transmission line, whereby an alternating current (AC) current-related difference of the two split signals corresponds to the transmission signal;

a first resistor located between an output of the first output driver and the first terminal;

a second resistor located between an output of the second output driver and the second terminal;

a first filter device to separate a first DC supply voltage component from a decreasing voltage measured by a first measurement device and decreasing at the first resistor;

a second filter device to separate a second DC supply voltage component from a decreasing voltage measured by a second measurement device and decreasing at the second resistor;

a first adding device to add a first adding signal corresponding to the first DC supply voltage component to the first split signal fed to the first output driver; and

a second adding device to add a second adding signal corresponding to the second DC supply voltage component to the second split signal fed to the second output driver.

2. A data transmission device according to claim 1, wherein the device includes a digital control circuit.

3. A data transmission device according to claim 1, wherein the first and second filter devices are designed in the form of a low pass filter.

4. A data transmission device according to claim 1, wherein the first and second filter devices are designed in the form of a digital filter device, and the decreasing voltage at the first resistor and the decreasing voltage at the second resistor is fed via a analog-to-digital (A/D) converter to the corresponding filter device.

5. A data transmission device according to claim 1, wherein the first and second filter devices are formed by a common filter device, which receives the decreasing voltages at the first and second resistor and independently of these generates the first and second adding signal.

6. A data transmission device according to claim 1, wherein the design of the first and second adding devices is digital, whereby the first or second adding device receives and adds the first or second digital split signal as well as the first or second digital adding signal, and wherein the output signal generated by the first or second adding device is fed via a digital-to-analog (D/A) converter to the first or second output driver.

7. A data transmission device according to claim 1, wherein the design of the first and second adding device is analog, whereby the first or second adding device receives and adds the first or second analog split signal as well as the first or second digital adding signal emitted via a digital-to-analog (D/A) converter in each case, and wherein the output signal generated by the first or second adding device is fed to the first or second output driver.

8. A data transmission device according to claim 1, wherein the value of the first resistor and the value of the second resistor are identical and in each case correspond to half the value of the internal resistance (R_i) of the data transmission device.