CN105261397A - Programmable transmission cable and programming method thereof - Google Patents
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A programmable transmission cable and a programming method of the programmable transmission cable. The programming method of the programmable transmission cable comprises the following steps: the power signal and the register setting data from the downstream port are received through the first setting pin and the second setting pin respectively, and the register in the connector of the programmable transmission cable is accessed according to the register setting data so as to write the register setting data into the nonvolatile memory.
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Technical field
The invention relates to a kind of transmission yarn, and relate to a kind of transmission yarn able to programme and programmed method thereof especially.
Background technology
Flourish along with electronic apparatus, the data processing speed of electronic apparatus presents and significantly increases, and the lifting of data processing speed along with electronic apparatus, the requirement for data transmission is also more and more higher, and also therefore the technical development of data transfer cable is also maked rapid progress.Except promoting the requirement of transmission speed, each product manufacturer also develops the uniqueness of its product respectively, to distinguish the market orientation of product, therefore may be suitable for different data transfer cable between different manufacturers or different products.For cable supplier, the demand that must respond each product manufacturer makes the cable of specific standard, and therefore how can facilitate and produce the cable meeting product manufacturer demand is rapidly an important problem.
Summary of the invention
The invention provides a kind of transmission yarn able to programme and programmed method thereof, can facilitate and produce the cable meeting product manufacturer demand rapidly.
Transmission yarn able to programme of the present invention, comprises connector, chip and cable.Wherein connector has the first setting pin and second and sets pin, and connector sets pin respectively by the first setting pin and second and receives power supply signal from downlink data flow port and Register Set data.Chip configuration is in connector, and chip comprises nonvolatile memory and at least one register.Chip is according to the Register Set data access register from the second setting pin, and so that Register Set data are write nonvolatile memory, wherein Register Set data are in order to the default storage data of set-up register.Cable, is connected to downlink data flow port by connector.
The connector of transmission yarn able to programme of the present invention comprises nonvolatile memory and at least one register, and the programmed method of transmission yarn able to programme comprises the following steps.The first setting pin and second respectively by connector sets power supply signal and the Register Set data of pin downlink data receiving flow port.According to the Register Set data access register from the second setting pin, so that Register Set data are write nonvolatile memory, wherein Register Set data are in order to the default storage data of set-up register.
Based on above-mentioned, embodiments of the invention set pin respectively by the first setting pin and second and receive power supply signal from downlink data flow port and Register Set data, the register in connector is accessed according to Register Set data, so that Register Set data are write nonvolatile memory, and then set transmission yarn able to programme, make cable supplier can facilitate and produce the cable meeting product manufacturer demand rapidly.
For above-mentioned feature and advantage of the present invention can be become apparent, special embodiment below, and coordinate accompanying drawing to be described in detail below.
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Fig. 1 is the schematic diagram of the cable a kind of able to programme according to embodiments of the invention.
Fig. 2 is the schematic flow sheet of the programmed method of cable a kind of able to programme according to embodiments of the invention.
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102: connector
104: cable
106: chip
108: register
110: nonvolatile memory
112: downlink data flow port
114-1,114-2: setting pin
116,118: Signal transmissions pin
SP: power supply signal
DS: Register Set data
S202, S204: the programmed method of cable able to programme
Embodiment
Fig. 1 is the schematic diagram of the cable a kind of able to programme according to embodiments of the invention, please refer to Fig. 1.Cable able to programme comprises connector 102 and cable 104, wherein be configured with chip 106 in connector 102, and chip 106 comprises at least one register 108 and nonvolatile memory 110, register 108 can such as with static RAM (StaticRandomAccessMemories, SRAM) implement, nonvolatile memory 110 then such as can be implemented by single programmable (One-TimeProgramming, OTP) storer, so not as limit.Connector 102 can be connected to downstream data flow port one 12 (DownstreamFacingPort, DFP), wherein downstream data flow port one 12 can be such as host side, and the data of downstream data flow port one 12 are transferred to the upstream data flow port (not illustrating) of cable 104 other end by cable by connector 102, upstream data flow port can be such as equipment end.
Connector 102 has setting pin 114-1 and setting pin 114-2, in the present embodiment, setting pin 114-1 can receive with setting pin 114-2 the power supply signal SP and Register Set data DS that export from downstream data flow port one 12 respectively, and the Register Set data DS that chip 106 can receive according to setting pin 114-2 carrys out access function resister 108, so that Register Set data DS is write in nonvolatile memory 110, wherein Register Set data DS is in order to the default storage data of set-up register 108 (that is when register 108 powers on, primary data stored in register 108), default storage data can according to the requirements set of each product manufacturer, default storage data can be such as product serial number, the information of specification or product manufacturer ... etc..
Compared to prior art cable supplier when setting the default storage data of register of cable, usually be all by I2C bus, SM bus or universal asynchronous receiving-transmitting (UniversalAsynchronousReceiver/Transmitter, UART) interface etc. carries out the setting of the default storage data of register, so this little setting means all must provide extra signal wire to chip in addition, and the cable able to programme of the present embodiment is owing to directly can pass through setting pin 114-1, 114-2 transmits power supply signal SP and Register Set data DS respectively to chip 106, make chip 106 according to Register Set data DS access function resister 108, and then by Register Set data write nonvolatile memory 110, so just can the default storage data of set-up register 108, and extra signal wire must do not provided in addition to chip 106, therefore cable supplier is made can to facilitate and produce the cable meeting product manufacturer demand rapidly.
For example, the connecting interface of connector 102 can be USBtype-C interface, setting pin 114-1,114-2 can be collocation channel (ConfigurationChannel, CC) pin, further, setting pin 114-1 can be collocation channel (ConfigurationChannel, CC1) pin, and set pin 114-2 and can be collocation channel (ConfigurationChannel, CC2) pin, in addition, Register Set data DS such as can comprise supplier and make message (Vendor-DefinedMessaging by oneself, VDM, hereinafter referred to as VDM).Wherein supplier makes message by oneself and can comprise message header (MessageHeader), collocation channel VDM header and collocation channel supplier and make data object (VendorDefinedDataObject, VDO, hereinafter referred to as VDO) by oneself.In the present embodiment, message header, collocation channel VDM header and VDO can such as having the field of 16,32 and 32 respectively.Wherein message header is included in the information of field numbers all except message header in VDM, and such as in the present embodiment, collocation channel VDM header and VDO respectively comprise 1 field, and the field quantity of therefore message header instruction is 2.Further, the message header type for source (source) device or terminal (sink) device, electric power transfer specification that VDM transmitting terminal is supported, VDM message that also can comprise message (message) which section current VDM is, initiate a message ... etc. information.
Collocation channel VDM header can comprise VDM that VDM belongs to structuring (Structured) also or belong to the information (it can such as decide with the state of a certain bits in collocation channel VDM header) of VDM of destructuring (Unstructured) and instruction VDM be in order to write (write), reads (Read) or read the information (it can such as decide with the state of 15 positions specific in collocation channel VDM header) responding (ReadResponse).In addition, VDO then such as can comprise VDM for carrying out writing, read or reading the information of address, the information of product serial number and write, the reading of the actions such as response or reading the data responded.In addition, in the present embodiment, connector 102 also can comprise the Signal transmissions pin 116,118 of USB2.0 and USB3.1, that is connector 102 also can have the transmission interface of USB2.0 and USB3.1.
When carrying out the write of Register Set data DS, the power supply signal SP exporting setting pin 114-1 (that is CC1) to can draw high to predeterminated voltage (such as 6V by downstream data flow port one 12, so not as limit), and the VDM exported in order to write Register Set data DS is to setting pin 114-2, and chip 106 is receiving VDM by setting pin 114-2 and after confirming that the message that transmits is errorless, just can according to Register Set data DS access function resister 108, so that Register Set data DS is write in nonvolatile memory 110, return good circulation redundancy check (GoodCyclicRedundancyCheck by setting pin 114-2 simultaneously, GoodCRC) to downstream data flow port one 12, to inform that downstream data flow port one 12 has received the VDM of write Register Set data DS.In addition, when reading register 108, the exportable VDM in order to read register 108 of downstream data flow port one 12 is to setting pin 114-2 (that is CC2), and chip 106 is receiving VDM by setting pin 114-2 and after confirming that the message that transmits is errorless, except returning good circulation redundancy check (GoodCyclicRedundancyCheck by setting pin 114-2, GoodCRC) to outside downstream data flow port one 12, more by setting pin 114-2, the VDM being used for reading response (ReadResponse) is returned to downstream data flow port one 12, to inform that downstream data flow port one 12 has received the VDM reading register 108, and by downstream data flow port one 12 for read content send downstream data flow port one 12 to.And downstream data flow port one 12 is after receiving the VDM for reading response, also good circulation redundancy check can be returned to chip 106, to inform that chip 106 has received the VDM for reading response by setting pin 114-2.
It should be noted that, above-described embodiment is transmit power supply signal SP to set pin 114-1, and to set pin 114-2 transfer register setting data DS be that example is described, right connector 102 can just insert when being connected to downstream data flow port one 12 by USBtype-C interface or the mode of anti-plug connects, that is above-mentioned setting pin 114-1 also can exchange along with the just slotting of connector 102 or anti-plug with the signal that setting pin 114-2 institute is responsible for transmitting.Such as hypothesis is when connector 102 carries out being connected to downstream data flow port one 12 in the mode of just inserting, setting pin 114-1 is responsible for transmitting power supply signal SP, and set pin 114-2 and be responsible for transfer register setting data DS, then when connector 102 carries out being connected to downstream data flow port one 12 in the mode of anti-plug, setting pin 114-1 will transfer responsible transfer register setting data DS to, set pin 114-2 and then transfer responsible transmission power supply signal SP to.
As mentioned above, by the collocation channel (ConfigurationChannel that USBtype-C provides, CC) pin transmits the power supply signal in Register Set data DS write nonvolatile memory 110 and VDM, getting final product must be not as in the prior art, when setting the default storage data of register of cable, I2C bus must be passed through, SM bus or universal asynchronous receiving-transmitting (UniversalAsynchronousReceiver/Transmitter, UART) interface etc. carries out the setting of register, therefore the setting of register must not be carried out before cable encapsulation, and can the demand just according to product manufacturer after cable able to programme has encapsulated set, make cable supplier can facilitate and produce the cable meeting product manufacturer demand rapidly.
Fig. 2 is the schematic flow sheet of the programmed method of cable a kind of able to programme according to embodiments of the invention, please refer to Fig. 2.From above-described embodiment, the programmed method of cable able to programme can comprise the following steps, first the first setting pin and second respectively by the connector of cable able to programme sets power supply signal and the Register Set data (step S202) of pin downlink data receiving flow port, wherein when the second setting pin receives the Register Set data from downlink data flow port, first setting pin (in order to transmit power supply signal) is driven high to predeterminated voltage, the connecting interface of connector can be such as USBtype-C interface, and the first setting pin is collocation channel (ConfigurationChannel, CC1) pin, second setting pin is collocation channel (ConfigurationChannel, CC2) pin, wherein the first setting pin and second set pin be responsible for the signal that transmits can with Type-C connector just slotting or anti-plug and exchanging, Register Set data can comprise supplier and make message (Vendor-DefinedMessaging by oneself, VDM).Furthermore, supplier makes message by oneself and can comprise message header (MessageHeader), collocation channel VDM header and collocation channel supplier and make data object (VendorDefinedDataObject, VDO) by oneself.In addition, in some embodiments, connector also can comprise the Signal transmissions pin of USB2.0 and USB3.1.Then, according to the Register Set data access register from the second setting pin, so that Register Set data are write nonvolatile memory, wherein Register Set data are in order to the default storage data (step S204) of set-up register, wherein default storage data are register when powering on, primary data stored in register.
In sum, embodiments of the invention set pin respectively by the first setting pin and second and receive power supply signal from downlink data flow port and Register Set data, according to the register in Register Set data access connector, so that Register Set data are write nonvolatile memory, and then set transmission yarn able to programme, make cable supplier can facilitate and produce the cable meeting product manufacturer demand rapidly.
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1. a transmission yarn able to programme, comprising:
One connector, has one first setting pin and one second and sets pin, first sets pin and this second sets pin and receive power supply signal from a downlink data flow port and Register Set data respectively by this;
One chip, be configured in this connector, this chip comprises:
One nonvolatile memory; And
At least one register, this chip is according to this at least one register of this Register Set data access from this second setting pin, so that these Register Set data are write this nonvolatile memory, wherein these Register Set data are in order to set the default storage data of this at least one register; And
One cable, is connected to this downlink data flow port by this connector.
2. transmission yarn able to programme as claimed in claim 1, wherein the connecting interface of this connector is USBtype-C interface, this first setting pin and this second to set pin be collocation channel pin, these Register Set data comprise supplier and make message by oneself.
3. transmission yarn able to programme as claimed in claim 2, wherein this supplier makes message by oneself and comprises message header, collocation channel VDM header and collocation channel supplier and make data object by oneself.
4. transmission yarn able to programme as claimed in claim 2, wherein this power supply signal is driven high to a predeterminated voltage when this second setting pin receives these Register Set data.
5. transmission yarn able to programme as claimed in claim 2, wherein this connector also comprises the Signal transmissions pin of USB2.0 and USB3.1.
6. a programmed method for transmission yarn able to programme, wherein the connector of this transmission yarn able to programme comprises a nonvolatile memory and at least one register, and this programmed method comprises:
The one first setting pin and one second respectively by this connector sets power supply signal and the Register Set data that pin receives a downlink data flow port; And
According to this at least one register of this Register Set data access from this second setting pin, so that these Register Set data are write this nonvolatile memory, wherein these Register Set data are in order to set the default storage data of this at least one register.
7. the programmed method of transmission yarn able to programme as claimed in claim 6, wherein the connecting interface of this connector is USBtype-C interface, this first setting pin and this second to set pin be collocation channel pin, these Register Set data comprise supplier and make message by oneself.
8. the programmed method of transmission yarn able to programme as claimed in claim 6, wherein this supplier makes message by oneself and comprises message header, collocation channel VDM header and collocation channel supplier and make data object by oneself.
9. the programmed method of transmission yarn able to programme as claimed in claim 6, wherein this power supply signal is driven high to a predeterminated voltage when this second setting pin receives these Register Set data from this downlink data flow port.
10. the programmed method of transmission yarn able to programme as claimed in claim 6, wherein this connector also comprises the Signal transmissions pin of USB2.0 and USB3.1.
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