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US 10,754,607 B2Granted
Receiver and decoder for extreme low power, unterminated, multi-drop serdes
AssigneeQUALCOMM Incorporated
InventorsJason Gonzalez, Puxuan Dong, Lior Amarilio
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Abstract
Systems and methods for multi-threshold sensing at an audio receiver, and systems and methods for calibrating an audio system to optimize for the specific configuration of the audio system are disclosed herein. In some implementations of a multi-threshold receiver, at least one additional voltage level is selected to trigger latching events within the receiver based on changes of the receiver input (which includes differential signals Vp and Vn) and in turn, to generate internal signals within the multi-threshold receiver, and then logic operations are performed on these internal signals to generate the output of the multi-threshold receiver.
Claims12
An audio slave device, comprising:
- an interface configured to communicatively couple to an audio bus to receive audio signals from an audio master device;
- and
- an audio receiver coupled to the interface, the audio receiver comprising
- a first voltage regulator configured to generate a first voltage;
- a second voltage regulator configured to generate a second voltage different from the first voltage;
- a plurality of transistors configured to generate a plurality of internal signals internal to the audio receiver based on the second voltage and changes in voltage level of the audio signals received, and
- a logic circuit configured to determine a value of an output of the audio receiver based on the plurality of internal signals during a period in which the audio receiver is not sensing the audio signals received using the first voltage, the logic circuit comprising
- an AND gate having an output to generate the output of the audio receiver, a first input configured to receive an inverted signal of the second voltage, and a second input;
- and
- an OR gate having an output coupled to the second input of the AND gate, and a first input configured to receive a third voltage and a second input configured to receive one of the plurality of internal signals, wherein the third voltage is different from the first and the second voltages.
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An audio slave device, comprising:
- an interface configured to communicatively couple to an audio bus to receive audio signals from an audio master device;
- and
- an audio receiver coupled to the interface, the audio receiver configured to perform multi-threshold sensing on the audio signals received from the interface, wherein the audio receiver comprises
- a first voltage regulator configured to generate a first voltage for sensing the audio signals received, wherein the first voltage is a mid-point voltage between a maximum voltage and a minimum voltage of the audio signals received;
- a second voltage regulator configured to generate a second voltage different from the first voltage, wherein the second voltage is at about three quarters of a range of voltage between the maximum voltage and the minimum voltage of the audio signals received;
- a plurality of transistors configured to generate a plurality of internal signals internal to the audio receiver based on the second voltage and changes in voltage level of the audio signals received;
- and
- a logic circuit configured to determine a value of an output of the audio receiver based on the plurality of internal signals during a period in which the audio receiver cannot sense the audio signals received using the first voltage, wherein the logic circuit comprises
- an AND gate having an output to generate the output of the audio receiver, a first input configured to receive an inverted signal of the second voltage, and a second input;
- and
- an OR gate having an output coupled to the second input of the AND gate, and a first input configured to receive a third voltage and a second input configured to receive one of the plurality of internal signals, wherein the third voltage is at about a quarter of the range of voltage between the maximum voltage and the minimum voltage of the audio signals received.
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An audio system, comprising:
- an audio master device;
- an audio bus;
- and
- a first audio slave device coupled to the audio master device via the audio bus, wherein a length of the audio bus between the audio master device and the first audio slave device is less than 50 centimeters, and the audio slave device includes
- an interface configured to communicatively coupled to the audio bus to receive audio signals from the audio master device, and
- an audio receiver coupled to the interface, the audio receiver configured to perform multi-threshold sensing on the audio signals received from the interface, the audio receiving having
- a first voltage regulator configured to generate a first voltage for sensing the audio signals received;
- a second voltage regulator configured to generate a second voltage different from the first voltage;
- a plurality of transistors configured to generate a plurality of internal signals internal to the audio receiver based on the second voltage and changes in voltage level of the audio signals received;
- and
- a logic circuit configured to determine a value of an output of the audio receiver based on the plurality of internal signals during a period in which the audio receiver cannot sense the audio signals received using the first voltage, wherein the logic circuit comprises:
- an AND gate having an output to generate the output of the audio receiver, a first input configured to receive an inverted signal of the second voltage, and a second input;
- and
- an OR gate having an output coupled to the second input of the AND gate, and a first input configured to receive a third voltage and a second input configured to receive one of the plurality of internal signals, wherein the third voltage is at about a quarter of the range of voltage between the maximum voltage and the minimum voltage of the audio signals received.
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