Circuit configuration for a serial communication with wake up function

• US 8,457,853 B2
• Filed: 07/30/2009
• Issued: 06/04/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 08/01/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Knorr-Bremse Systeme Fur Nutzfahrzeuge GMBH (Estate of Heinz Hermann Thiele)
• Original Assignee: Knorr-Bremse Systeme Fur Nutzfahrzeuge GMBH (Estate of Heinz Hermann Thiele)
• Inventors: Feucht, Thomas
• Primary Examiner(s): Black, Thomas
• Assistant Examiner(s): Nolan, Peter D
• Application Number:
  US12/512,478
• Publication Number:
  US 20100034243A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,405 Days
• Field of Search: 701/36, 701/37, 713/300, 713/310, 713/324
• US Class Current: 701/70
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/266 Arrangements to supply power to external peripherals either directly from the computer or under computer control, e.g. supply of power through the communication port, computer controlled power-strips
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/40039 Details regarding the setting of the power status of a node according to activity on the bus
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2012/40234 Local Interconnect Network LIN
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2012/40273 the transportation system being a vehicle
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/50 in wire-line communication networks, e.g. low power modes or reduced link rate

Abstract

A circuit configuration for serial communication includes a first half for receiving and emitting sensing and/or actuating signals; a second half for receiving and emitting sensing and/or actuating signals, a two wire connecting line, which connects bidirectionally the first half and the second half of the circuit configuration; and a wake up switching device for waking up the first and second halves of the circuit configuration out of their standby mode without quiescent current. Independently of the switching state of the wake up switching device, a high level state at the output of a second low pass filter device holds a first switching device in its closing state, and a high level state at the output of a first low pass filter device holds a second switching device in its closing state, as a result of which a self-holding of the supply voltage is guaranteed.

Claims

1. A circuit configuration for serial communication, comprising:

a first half of the circuit configuration operatively configured to receive and emit at least one of sensing and actuating signals;

a second half of the circuit configuration operatively configured to receive and emit the at least one of sensing and actuating signals;

a two wire connecting line bi-directionally coupling the first half of the circuit configuration and the second half of the circuit configuration; and

a wake-up switching device operatively configured to wake-up the first half of the circuit configuration and the second half of the circuit configuration from a standby mode without quiescent current,

wherein the first half of the circuit configuration comprises;

a first switching device for supplying a supply voltage of the first half of the circuit configuration;

a first signal shaping device coupled to the first switching device, the first signal shaping device being operatively configured to shape a data signal on a data receiving line of the first half of the circuit configuration;

a first transistor coupled to the first switching device, the first transistor being operatively configured to control a data communication on a data transmission line of the first half of the circuit configuration;

a first low pass filter device operatively disposed in the data transmission line of the first half of the circuit configuration,

wherein the second half of the circuit configuration comprises;

a second switching device for switching a supply voltage of the second half of the circuit configuration;

a second signal shaping device coupled to the second switching device, the second signal shaping device being operatively configured to shape a data signal on a data receiving line of the second half of the circuit configuration;

a second transistor device coupled to the second switching device, the second transistor device being operatively configured to control a data communication on a data transmission line of the second half of the circuit configuration; and

a second low pass filter device disposed in the data transmission line of the second half of the circuit configuration,

wherein

the wake-up switching device is operatively arranged in the first half of the circuit configuration and is operatively configured to shift the first switching device into a closing state, and

upon shifting the first switching device into the closing state, the first transistor device is supplied with an operating voltage and an output of the first low pass filter attains a level such that the second switching device is shifted into a closing state.

2. The circuit configuration according to claim 1, wherein the circuit configuration is configured such that upon shifting the second switching device into the closing state, the second transistor device is supplied with the operating voltage, and an output of the second low pass filter device attains a level such that the first switching device remains in the closing state independent of a switching state of the wake-up switching device.

3. The circuit configuration according to claim 2, wherein the first half of the circuit configuration is one of a sensor, an actuator, and a sensor/actuator.

4. The circuit configuration according to claim 3, wherein the second half of the circuit configuration is a central electronic control unit.

5. The circuit configuration according to claim 2, wherein the first half of the circuit configuration is part of a foot brake module of an electronic brake system in. a motor vehicle and the second half of the circuit configuration is a central electronic control unit of the electronic brake system.

6. The circuit configuration according to claim 1, wherein the first half of the circuit configuration is one of a sensor, an actuator, and a sensor/actuator.

7. The circuit configuration according to claim 6, wherein the second half of the circuit configuration is a central electronic control unit.

8. The circuit configuration according to claim 1, wherein the first half of the circuit configuration is part of a foot brake module of an electronic brake system in a motor vehicle, and the second half of the circuit configuration is a central electronic control unit of the electronic brake system.

9. The circuit configuration according to claim 1, wherein the first and second halves of the circuit configuration are digital circuits and the first and the second switching devices are electronic switches.

10. A method for waking-up from a standby mode without quiescent current a first half of a circuit and a second half of a circuit coupled via communication lines forming a bidirectional full duplex communication interface, the method comprising the acts of:

shifting a wake-up switching device arranged in the first half of the circuit into a closing state;

shifting a first switching device in the first half of the circuit into a closing state;

supplying a first transistor with an operating voltage;

shifting an output of a first low pass filter into a high level state;

shifting a second switching device in the second half of the circuit into a closing state;

supplying a second transistor with the operating voltage;

shifting an output of a second low pass filter into a high level state; and

independent of a switching state of the wake-up switching device, holding the first switching device in the closing state via the high level state at the output of the second low pass filter and holding the second switching device in the closing state via the high level state at the output of the first low pass filter.