Data transmission rate adjustment system and method thereof

• US 7,881,363 B2
• Filed: 09/26/2007
• Issued: 02/01/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 05/08/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: MiTAC International Corporation (MiTAC Holdings Corp.)
• Original Assignee: MiTAC International Corporation (MiTAC Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: Chuang, Chung-Hsien
• Primary Examiner(s): Payne, David C
• Assistant Examiner(s): Stevens, Brian J
• Application Number:
  US11/902,768
• Publication Number:
  US 20090034593A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,224 Days
• Field of Search: 375/222, 375/219, 725/111
• US Class Current: 375/225
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 1/0002 by adapting the transmission rate
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/00 Supervisory, monitoring or testing arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/22 Negotiating communication rate
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/54 based on quality criteria

Abstract

A data transmission rate adjustment system and method thereof comprise a driving module and a control module. The driving module performs a predetermined mathematical calculation based on a transmission rate request to generate a divisor. The control module then performs a division that divides a reference frequency by the divisor to generate a first transmission rate so that a data receiving terminal can receive data sent from a data sending terminal through the driving module based on the first transmission rate. The driving module monitors a transmission error rate of the data received by the data receiving terminal. If the transmission error rate exceeds a predetermined value, the divisor is automatically adjusted to generate a second transmission rate. The second transmission rate is also provided to replace the first transmission rate.

Claims

1. A data transmission rate adjustment apparatus applied to a data receiving terminal, and said data transmission rate adjustment apparatus comprising:

a driving module, for performing a predetermined calculation based on a request with an information of desired transmission rate to generate a divisor; and

a control module, for dividing a reference frequency by said divisor to generate a first transmission rate so that said data receiving terminal can receive data sent from a data sending terminal through said driving module with said first transmission rate;

wherein said driving module monitors a transmission error rate of said received data and adjusts said divisor if said transmission error rate exceeds a predetermined value, and said control module generates a second transmission rate based on said adjusted divisor, and said data receiving terminal receives data through said driving module with said second transmission rate;

wherein said control module further comprises a status register for storing an operating status of said control module, and said driving module monitors said transmission error rate by checking the data stored in said status register.

2. The data transmission rate adjustment apparatus of claim 1, wherein said reference frequency is provided by a CPU.

3. The data transmission rate adjustment apparatus of claim 1, wherein the unit of said first transmission rate and said second transmission rate is a baud rate.

4. The data transmission rate adjustment apparatus of claim 1, wherein said data receiving terminal receives said data by using a universal asynchronous receiver transmitter (UART), a universal serial bus, a wireless network transmission interface or an any kind of transmission interface.

5. The data transmission rate adjustment apparatus of claim 1, wherein said control module further comprises an UART controller.

6. The data transmission rate adjustment apparatus of claim 1, wherein said control module further comprises a divisor register, said driving module storing said divisor in said divisor register to provide said divisor to said control module for calculating.

7. The data transmission rate adjustment apparatus of claim 1, wherein said transmission error rate is an occurred rate of a data frame error when said data receiving terminal receives data.

8. A data transmission rate adjustment method applied to a data receiving terminal comprising:

receiving a request with an information of desired data transmission rate by a driving module;

performing a predetermined calculation based on said transmission rate request to generate a divisor by said driving module;

dividing a reference frequency by said divisor to generate a first transmission rate by a control module;

providing said first transmission rate by said control module to said data receiving terminal which receives a data sent from a data sending terminal based on said first transmission rate;

monitoring a transmission error rate of said received data by said driving module via checking the data stored in a status register for storing an operating status of said control module;

adjusting said divisor by said driving module and dividing said reference frequency by said adjusted divisor to generate a second transmission rate by said control module if said transmission error rate exceeds a predetermined value; and

providing said second transmission rate by said control module to said data receiving terminal for receiving said data with said second transmission rate.

9. The data transmission rate adjustment method of claim 8, wherein said reference frequency is provided by a CPU.

10. The data transmission rate adjustment method of claim 8, wherein the unit of said first transmission rate and said second transmission rate is a baud rate.

11. The data transmission rate adjustment method of claim 8, wherein said data receiving terminal receives said data by using a universal asynchronous receiver transmitter, a universal serial bus, a wireless network transmission interface or any kind of transmission interface.

12. The data transmission rate adjustment method of claim 8, wherein said transmission error rate is an occurred rate of a data frame error when said data receiving terminal receives data.

13. A data transmission rate adjustment apparatus applied to a data receiving terminal, and said data transmission rate adjustment apparatus comprising:

a driving module, for performing a predetermined calculation based on a request with an information of desired transmission rate to generate a divisor; and

a control module, for dividing a reference frequency by said divisor to generate a first transmission rate so that said data receiving terminal can receive data sent from a data sending terminal through said driving module with said first transmission rate;

wherein said driving module monitors a transmission error rate of said received data and adjusts said divisor if said transmission error rate exceeds a predetermined value, and said control module generates a second transmission rate based on said adjusted divisor, and said data receiving terminal receives data through said driving module with said second transmission rate;

wherein said control module further comprises a divisor register, said driving module storing said divisor in said divisor register to provide said divisor to said control module for calculating.