A/d converter control circuit
AssigneeRenesas Electronics Corporation
InventorsAkihiro ONO, Takanobu NIMIYA, Yoshihiro KONNO, Yuji SHINDO
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Abstract
An A/D conversion control circuit includes a scan group control unit and a FIFO unit. The scan group control unit includes an input reception unit and an arbitration unit. The FIFO unit includes a plurality of pointer control units provided correspondingly to the plurality of FIFO memories, respectively. Each of the pointer control units clears or changes a position of a write pointer/read pointer of the corresponding FIFO memory at the timing of at least any of the start, interruption, and/or restart of the corresponding scan group according to the priority of the scan group.
Claims7
An A/D conversion control circuit comprising:
- a scan group control unit controlling a plurality of AD conversion channels with a plurality of scan groups having different priorities;
- and
- a FIFO unit provided corresponding to each of the plurality of scan groups, each having a plurality of FIFO memories that sequentially stores an output from the scan group control unit for each corresponding scan group,
- wherein the scan group control unit includes:
- an input reception unit receiving an AD conversion channel of a corresponding scan group among the plurality of AD conversion channels according to an instruction, and outputting it to the corresponding FIFO memory;
- and
- an arbitration unit determining timing of conversion start, interruption, and restart in each of the plurality of scan groups,
- wherein the FIFO unit further includes a plurality of pointer control units provided correspondingly to the plurality of FIFO memories, respectively, and
- wherein each of the pointer control units clears or changes a position of a write pointer/read pointer of the corresponding FIFO memory at the timing of at least any of the start, interruption, and/or restart of the corresponding scan group according to the priority of the scan group.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.