JP3314779B2 - Transmitter / receiver circuit - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a serial bus to which a personal computer, its peripheral devices, and audio / visual devices can be connected.
andard for a High Performance Serial Bus ”, -IEEE
The present invention relates to a transmission / reception circuit used in a high-speed serial bus (referred to as "1394 serial bus") standardized by Std. 1394-1995- (hereinafter referred to as "IEEE Std. 1394-1995").

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art A personal computer, a printer,
A 1394 serial bus is used to transfer control signals or main signals between peripheral devices such as hard disks and image scanners, video devices such as digital cameras, and audio devices (such terminal devices are referred to as “nodes”). A network composed of nodes (referred to as “1394 serial bus nodes”) has been considered.

FIG. 7 shows an example of a conventional physical layer circuit.
1 schematically illustrates the structure of a physical layer circuit (referred to as a “1394 physical layer circuit”) described in IEEE Std. 1394-1995 p.92.

In FIG. 1, a 1394 physical layer circuit has three
IEEE Std 1394-1995 standard transceiver circuit (referred to as "1394 metal transceiver circuit") 10, 11, 12
, A DS-Link Encoder / Decoder circuit 2, a link layer interface circuit 3, a bus arbitration circuit 1, and a register circuit 4.

1394 metal transceiver circuits 10, 11,
Reference numeral 12 transmits and receives a main signal signal and a control signal using two pairs of cables with another node.

[0006] The DS-Link Encoder / Decoder circuit 2 performs modulation and demodulation by the DS-link system in order to transmit and receive a data signal from the upper link layer on the bus. DS-li
The nk modulation is a modulation method in which an exclusive OR of a data signal and a clock signal is used as a strobe signal, and the data signal and the strobe signal are transmitted using two pairs of transmission paths.

[0007] The link layer interface circuit 3 is a circuit that exchanges a data signal and a control signal with a link layer that is an upper layer.

The bus arbitration circuit 1 controls various settings for the operation of the 1394 physical layer circuit and the timing of sending data signals and control signals onto the 1394 serial bus. The bus arbitration circuit 1 is connected to a register circuit 4 in which conditions for operating the 1394 physical layer circuit are described, and the 1394 physical layer circuit operates according to the conditions described in the register circuit 4.

The register circuit 4 is generally controlled from a link layer as an upper layer, and reading and rewriting of the register circuit 4 are performed from the link layer via the link layer interface circuit 3.

FIG. 8 shows the register contents of the register circuit 4 and shows a register map described in IEEE Std. 1394-1995 p.341. Rewriting of the information of the register map is done by IE
According to the EE Std. 1394-1995 standard, rewriting is possible only under the control of the link layer. In this register map, 139 is stored in the [SPD] area of the lower 2 bits of address 0010.
4 Describes the maximum operation speed of the physical layer circuit. IEEE St
d. In the 1394-1995 standard, the maximum operating speed of the 1394 physical layer circuit is 100 Mbps (referred to as “S100”), 200 Mbps (“S20”).
0 ". ) And 400 Mbps (referred to as “S400”), which are selected according to the performance of the 1394 physical layer circuit.

The relationship between the value of the [SPD] area in the register map and the operation speed is (00) and S100, (01) and S200, and (10) and S4
00 corresponds. For example, when the [SPD] area is set to (01), a control signal indicating the maximum speed that can be processed by the own node is transmitted to the opposing node connected to the 1394 metal transceiver of the own node, and the opposing node transmits the control signal. The maximum speed of the signal transmitted from the node is S200.

As described above, the conventional 1394 physical layer circuit uses [S] of the register map in the register circuit in which the circuit is arranged.
PD] region limits the processing speed that can be processed,
In addition, the setting can be changed only by control from the link layer.

[0013]

The conventional 1394 physical layer circuit is based on the premise that all 1394 metal transceiver circuits in the circuit operate at the same speed. Therefore, all the 1394 metal transceiver circuits in the 1394 physical layer circuit are set as their own maximum processing speed in the [SPD] area in the register as all their own opposing nodes connected to each 1394 metal transceiver circuit. Notify the value
Matching is performed so that data transfer can be performed at the same speed as any other node.

However, as shown in FIG. 9, at least one of a plurality of transceiver circuits in the 1394 physical layer circuit is used, for example, to extend the transmission distance between nodes of the IEEE Std. 1394-1995 standard. Plastic Opti
When a 1394 metal transceiver is replaced with an optical transceiver or UTP transceiver to transmit using cal fiber (POF) or Unshielded Twist Pair (UTP) cable ("Dra
ft of Long Distance1394 (100m) Physical Layer As a
Response to DAVIC's CFP8 Section 4.1.3.3The A20 R
eference Point, Home Network. ”, DAVIC (Digital Aud
io-Visual Council) 's 8th Call For Proposals CFP8_
011. ), The maximum operation speed of each transceiver may differ in the same 1394 physical layer circuit. Specifically, this corresponds to the case where the original maximum operation speed of the 1394 metal transceiver circuit 10 is S200, and the maximum operation speed of the optical transceiver circuit 20 and the UTP transceiver circuit is S100.

Conventionally, in accordance with the IEEE Std. 1394-1995 standard, the value of the [SPD] area in the register map of the register circuit is set in accordance with the maximum operation speed of the 1394 metal transceiver circuit 10. Therefore, the 1394 metal transceiver circuit 10 notifies the opposing node of the maximum processing speed of its own node, S200, and as a result, a signal of the speed of S200 is sent from the opposing node.

When the 1394 physical layer circuit performs a repeater operation of receiving a signal of the speed of S200 from the 1394 metal transceiver 10 and transmitting the signal to the optical transceiver 20 that can operate only at the speed of S100, the optical transceiver 20 transmits the signal of S200 to the optical transceiver 20. Since a signal is input, normal transmission cannot be performed due to insufficient processing speed, and the opposite optical transceiver connected to the optical transceiver 20 cannot perform normal reception.

(Object of the Invention) In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention is to connect a plurality of transceiver circuits formed in a 1394 physical layer circuit to a certain transceiver circuit even when each of the transceiver circuits has a different maximum operation speed. It is an object of the present invention to provide a transmission / reception circuit capable of transferring a data signal sent from an opposite node to an opposite node connected to another transceiver of the own node having a different maximum operation speed.

[0018]

A transmitting / receiving circuit according to the present invention comprises:
Transmission and reception of serial bus nodes corresponding to multiple transmission speeds
Circuit that terminates a plurality of transmission paths.
Maximum operation of at least one transceiver that is a sheaver
Speeds may differ from the maximum operating speed of other transceivers.
A transceiver and a bus for the plurality of transceivers
A bus arbitration circuit having an arbitration function;
A register circuit for determining operating conditions;
In the register circuit that describes the maximum operating speed of the
Speed setting for externally writing a specified value to the register area
And a constant circuit.

The transmission / reception circuit of the present invention can operate at a plurality of transmission speeds.
The transmission / reception circuit of the corresponding 1394 serial bus node
Transceiver that terminates a plurality of transmission paths.
Ri of at least one transceiver highest operating speed of the other
Multiple transceivers that differ from the transceiver's maximum operating speed
And a bus arbitration function for the plurality of transceivers.
A bus arbitration circuit, and operating conditions of the bus arbitration circuit.
A register circuit for determining the
Register area in the register circuit that describes high operating speed
A speed setting circuit for writing a specified value from outside to the area
It is characterized by having. In each of the above inventions,
The speed setting circuit is disposed in the transceiver.
It is characterized by.

Further, in each of the above inventions, the same transmission path code
Internal bus to which the transceiver circuit using the signal is connected.
And a transceiver circuit using another transmission line code are connected.
Between the second internal bus and the first and second internal buses
A transmission line code conversion circuit connected to the
It is characterized by having. In addition, the transmission line code conversion
The circuit must be capable of repeating signals between transceivers.
And features.

(Operation) It is possible to externally set a set value of the bus operation speed in the 1394 physical layer circuit, and when a different transceiver is used for the transmission / reception circuit, the operation speed is set to the highest processing speed among the transceiver circuits. The processing speed is matched with the speed of the slow transceiver, and the opposite node is notified of the processing speed as the maximum processing speed of the own node.

[0022]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS A transmitting / receiving circuit according to an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.

<First Embodiment> FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a transmission / reception circuit according to a first embodiment of the present invention. In the figure, a transmission / reception circuit includes two 1394 metal transceiver circuits 10, 11, one optical transceiver circuit 20, DS
-Link Encoder / Decoder circuit 2, bus arbitration circuit 1, register circuit 4, and speed setting circuit 5

Two 1394 metal transceiver circuits 10,
Reference numeral 11 denotes a bus connection between the Encoder output and the Decoder input of the DS-Link Encoder / Decoder circuit 2, and the DS-Link Encoder / Decod
It has a function of inputting and outputting data to and from the er circuit 2, a function of inputting and outputting control signals connected to the bus arbitration circuit 1, and a function of transmitting and receiving data signals and control signals to and from an opposite node using a cable as a medium. .

The optical transceiver circuit 20 is a DS-Link Enc
a function for inputting and outputting data signals connected to the Decoder output and Encoder input of the oder / Decoder circuit 2; a function for inputting and outputting control signals connected to the bus arbitration circuit 1; A function of transmitting and receiving a data signal and a control signal.

The DS-Link Encoder / Decoder circuit 2 converts the data from the optical transceiver circuit 20 into a Data-Strobe signal, and outputs it to the two 1394 metal transceiver circuits 10 and 11 connected to the bus. Bus connected 2
From three 1394 metal transceiver circuits 10, 11
-Decode the Strobe signal and output to the optical transceiver circuit 20.

The bus arbitration circuit 1 is connected to the two 1394 metal transceiver circuits 10 and 11 and the optical transceiver circuit 20, and controls input and output of signals of the three transceiver circuits. Further, the setting information (such as the maximum operation speed) of the own node is transferred to each transceiver circuit.

The register circuit 4 has a register map as shown in FIG. 8, and is connected to the bus arbitration circuit 1,
The set value is read from the bus arbitration circuit 1. The [SPD] area of the register circuit 4 is connected to the speed setting circuit 5.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing the configuration of the speed setting circuit 5. In the figure, a speed setting circuit 5 is a bias power supply 1
00, two switches 101 and 102 are provided. The output ports of the two switches 101 and 102 are connected to the [SPD] area of the register circuit 4. 2
The two output ports independently output logical binary signals of High (1) and Low (0) by switching.

Next, the operation of the first embodiment of the present invention will be described.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing the relationship between the set value of the [SPD] area in the register map of the register circuit 4 and the operation speed of the transmission / reception circuit of the present invention. As the set value in the [SPD] area in the register map, the lower one of the two 1394 metal transceiver circuits 10, 11 and the optical transceiver circuit 20 is selected. For example, the 1394 metal transceiver circuits 10 and 11 can operate in S200,
When the optical transceiver circuit 20 can operate only in S100, the output port of the speed setting circuit 5 is set to (00) in order to limit the operation speed of the transmitting / receiving circuit to S100. As a result, the [SPD] area in the register map of the register circuit 4
(00) is set.

The bus arbitration circuit 1 reads this [SPD] area, and the opposing nodes connected to the two 1394 metal transceiver circuits 10, 11 and the optical transceiver circuit 20 and their respective nodes have an operation speed of S100. Notify that. Thereby, the 1394 metal transceiver circuit 10,
11 is connected to this node by S1
The data is transferred at the speed of 00, the data is transferred from the optical transceiver circuit 20 to another opposing node at the same speed of S100 via the DS-Link Encoder / Decode circuit 2, and the data repeater operation is completed.

The setting of the output port of the speed setting circuit 5 is performed by
It can be changed appropriately according to the operating speed of the 94 metal transceiver circuits 10 and 11 and the optical transceiver circuit 20. For example, when the maximum operation speed of the 1394 metal transceiver circuits 10 and 11 is S400 and the maximum speed of the optical transceiver circuit 20 is S200, the output port of the speed setting circuit 5 is set to (01) so that the transmission / reception circuit operates at S200. ). Also, if the operating speed of both the 1394 metal transceiver circuit and the optical transceiver circuit is the same as S200,
The output of the speed setting circuit may be set to (01).

As the transceiver circuit, in addition to the 1394 metal transceiver circuit and the optical transceiver circuit of the present embodiment, a UTP for transmitting an unshielded twist pair (UTP) cable
Any device having a function as a transceiver circuit, such as a transceiver circuit or a transceiver circuit using another medium as a transmission line, can be used. It is clear that the optical transceiver may be an optical transceiver circuit for transmitting a silica-based optical fiber or an optical transceiver for transmitting a Plastic Optical Fiber (POF).

<Second Embodiment> FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing a transmitting and receiving circuit according to a second embodiment of the present invention. In the figure, a transmission / reception circuit includes two 1394 metal transceiver circuits 10, 11, one optical transceiver circuit 20, DS
-Link Encoder / Decoder circuit 2, bus arbitration circuit 1, register circuit 4, and speed setting circuit 5.

The function and connection of each circuit are the same as those of the first embodiment of the present invention shown in FIG. 1 except that the speed setting circuit 5 is disposed inside the optical transceiver circuit 20. is there.

The register circuit 4 has a register map as shown in FIG. 8, and is connected to the bus control circuit 1,
The set value is read from the bus control circuit 1. The [SPD] area address of the register circuit 4 is connected to the optical transceiver circuit 20 having the speed setting circuit 5. The output of the speed setting circuit 5 disposed inside the optical transceiver circuit 20 has two ports, and is logically high (1) and low.
The binary signal (0) is output.

Next, the operation of the second embodiment of the present invention will be described.

The output value of the speed setting circuit 5 in the optical transceiver circuit 20 is set to the maximum operation speed of the optical transceiver circuit 20 in advance. For example, when the maximum operation speed of the optical transceiver circuit 20 is S100, [SPD] in the register in FIG.
From the relationship between the area setting value and the operating speed, the speed setting circuit 5 sets (00)
Is output. This output value is set as a set value in the [SPD] area of the register.

The bus arbitration circuit 1 controls the [SP
The setting value of the D] area is read, and the two 1394 metal transceiver circuits 10, 11 and the optical transceiver circuit 20 and the opposing nodes connected to each of them are notified that the operation speed of the own node is S100. Opposite nodes connected to the 1394 metal transceiver circuits 10 and 11 transfer data to this node at the speed of S100, and
Optical transceiver circuit 2 via coder / decode circuit 2
Data is transferred from 0 to another opposite node at the same speed of S100, and the data repeater operation is completed.

Also in this embodiment, when the maximum operation speed of the 1394 transceiver circuit is S400 and the maximum speed of the optical transceiver circuit is S200, the output of the speed setting circuit is set to (01) so that the transmission / reception circuit operates at S200. ). Also,
If the operation speeds of the 1394 transceiver circuit and the optical transceiver circuit are both S200, the speed setting circuit output is set to (01).

In this embodiment, the speed setting circuit is provided in the optical transceiver circuit itself having a low operation speed.
When using the optical transceiver circuit, the register circuit 4
[SPD] area is connected and the optimal speed is set automatically.

<Third Embodiment> FIG. 5 is a block diagram showing a transmitting / receiving circuit according to a third embodiment of the present invention. In the figure, a transmitting / receiving circuit includes two 1394 metal transceiver circuits 10, 11, two optical transceiver circuits 20, 2,
1. DS-Link Encoder / Decoder circuit 2, bus arbitration circuit 1, register circuit 4, speed setting circuits 5-1 and 5-2, and size discrimination circuit 6.

Two 1394 metal transceiver circuits 10,
11 is bus-connected to the Encoder output and the Decoder input of the DS-Link Encoder / Decoder circuit 2, and the DS-Link Encoder / Decoder
It has a function of inputting / outputting data to / from the coder circuit 2, a function of inputting / outputting a control signal connected to the bus arbitration circuit 1, and a function of transmitting / receiving a data signal and a control signal to / from an opposite node using a cable as a medium.

The two optical transceiver circuits 20, 21 are:
Decoder output and Enc of DS-Link Encoder / Decoder circuit 2
a function of inputting / outputting a data signal connected to the oder input via a bus, a function of inputting / outputting a control signal connected to the bus arbitration circuit 1, and transmitting / receiving a data signal and a control signal to / from an opposite node using an optical fiber as a medium. Has functions. The speed setting circuits 5-1 and 5-2 are disposed inside the optical transceiver circuits 20 and 21, respectively.

The DS-Link Encoder / Decoder circuit 2 converts the data from the two optical transceiver circuits 20 and 21 into Data-S
The signal is converted to a trobe signal and output to the two 1394 metal transceiver circuits 10 and 11 connected in a bus shape, and conversely, the two 1394 metal transceiver circuits 10 and 11 connected to the bus.
And decodes the Data-Strobe signal from the first and second optical transceiver circuits 20 and 21.

The bus arbitration circuit 1 includes two 1394 metal transceiver circuits 10 and 11 and two optical transceiver circuits 2
0 and 21 for controlling the input and output of signals of these four transceiver circuits. In addition, the setting information (such as the maximum operation speed) of the own node is transferred to the transceiver circuit, and the setting information is transferred to the opposing node connected to each transceiver circuit.

The register circuit 4 has an address map as shown in FIG. 8, is connected to the bus arbitration circuit 1,
The set value is read from the bus arbitration circuit 1.

The two speed setting circuits 5-1 and 5-2 have two ports as shown in FIG.
A binary signal of (1) and Low (0) is output.

The magnitude discriminating circuit 6 includes the optical transceiver circuit 2
From the outputs of the speed setting circuits 5-1 and 5-2 disposed inside 0 and 21, the magnitudes of the two set values are determined, and the result is output to the [SPD] area address of the register circuit 4.

Next, the operation of the third embodiment of the present invention will be described.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing the relationship between the set value of the [SPD] area in the address map of the register circuit 4 and the operating speed of the transmitting / receiving circuit of the present invention. As the set value in this [SPD] region, the set value of the two optical transceiver circuits 20 and 21 with the lower operation speed is selected.

For example, the optical transceiver circuit 20 is S200
Is possible, and the optical transceiver circuit 21 can operate only in S100. In this case, the operation speed of the transmission / reception circuit is limited to S100. Optical transceiver circuit 20
Since the operation speed is S200, the output values of the two ports of the built-in speed setting circuit 5-1 are set to (01) from FIG. On the other hand, the operating speed of the optical transceiver circuit 21 is
Since it is S100, the output values of the two ports of the built-in speed setting circuit 5-2 are set to (00) from FIG. The outputs of the two speed setting circuits 5-1 and 5-1 are discriminated in magnitude by the magnitude discrimination circuit 6, and (00) corresponding to the slower value S100 of the operation speed is selected. The [SPD] area in the register map of No. 4 is set to (00).

FIG. 6 is a diagram showing the logical operation of the magnitude discrimination circuit 6. For the combination of the outputs of the speed setting circuits 5-1 and 5-2, the output corresponding to the slower operation speed of each optical transceiver circuit is always selected.

The bus arbitration circuit 1 reads this [SPD] area, and the opposing node connected to each of the two 1394 transceiver circuits 10 and 11 and the two optical transceiver circuits 20 and 21 has its own node operating speed of S100. Notify that there is. Opposite nodes connected to the 1394 metal transceiver circuits 10 and 11 transfer data to this node at the speed of S100, and from the optical transceiver circuits 20 and 21 via the DS-Link Encoder / Decoder circuit 2 to the opposing nodes. Then, the data is transferred at the speed of S100, and the data repeater operation is completed.

The maximum speed of the optical transceiver circuit 20 is S400 (the output of the built-in speed setting circuit is (10)), and the maximum speed of the optical transceiver circuit 21 is S200 (the output of the built-in speed setting circuit is In the case of (01)), the magnitude discrimination circuit 6 selects (01) corresponding to the lower operation speed of the two optical transceiver circuits 20 and 21 and outputs it to the speed setting circuit, and the transmission / reception circuit operates in S200. I do. When the operation speeds of the optical transceiver circuits 20 and 21 are both S400, the magnitude discrimination circuit 6 is selected by (10), and the transmission / reception circuit operates at S400.

[0057]

According to the transmission / reception circuit of the present invention, there is provided a speed setting circuit for externally writing a designated value to a register area describing a maximum operation speed of a plurality of transceivers terminating a plurality of transmission paths. Therefore, even when a plurality of transceivers having different operation speeds are connected, the operation speed in data transfer between the transceivers can be arbitrarily adjusted, and the repeater operation or the like can be performed without any trouble.

By mounting a speed setting circuit capable of setting the operation speed in the transceiver, it is possible to eliminate the need to change the operation speed setting by replacing the transceiver.

Further, by providing a size discriminating circuit for discriminating the magnitude of the speed setting value of a plurality of transceivers and outputting the minimum setting value, even if a plurality of transceivers equipped with the speed setting circuit are replaced, the operation is most performed. It is possible to automatically select a setting value having a low speed, and the operation speed can be easily set.

According to the present invention, it is possible to use a transceiver suitable for extending a transmission distance between nodes such as an optical transceiver.

[0061]

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a transmission / reception circuit according to a first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of a speed setting circuit according to the first embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating a relationship between a set value of an [SPD] area in a register map and an operation speed of a transmission / reception circuit of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram illustrating a transmission / reception circuit according to a second embodiment;

FIG. 5 is a block diagram illustrating a transmission / reception circuit according to a third embodiment.

FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating a logical operation of a magnitude discrimination circuit according to a third embodiment.

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a conventional 1394 physical layer circuit.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing a register map in a conventional 1394 physical layer circuit and a transmission / reception circuit of the present invention.

FIG. 9 is a block diagram showing a transmission / reception circuit in which a part of a transceiver in a conventional 1394 physical layer circuit is replaced with an optical transceiver circuit.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Bus arbitration circuit 2 DS-Link Encoder / Decoder circuit 3 Link layer interface circuit 4 Register circuit 5, 5-1 and 5-2 Speed setting circuit 6 Size discrimination circuit 10, 11 1394 metal transceiver circuit 20, 21 Optical transceiver circuit 100 Bias power supply 101, 102 switch

Claims (5)

(57) [Claims] 1. A serial bus corresponding to a plurality of transmission speeds.
A transmission / reception circuit of a node, each of which has a plurality of transmission paths.
Terminating transceiver and at least one transceiver
The maximum operating speed of the transceiver is the maximum operating speed of other transceivers.
A plurality of transceivers different from the plurality of transceivers
A bus arbitration circuit having a bus arbitration function for the bus;
A register circuit for determining operating conditions of the bus arbitration circuit;
The above statement describing the maximum operating speed of multiple transceivers
Writes a specified value externally to the register area in the register circuit
And a speed setting circuit for transmitting and receiving data.
Communication circuit. 2. A 1394 serial device supporting a plurality of transmission speeds.
Transmission / reception circuit of
Each terminated transceiver and at least one
The maximum operating speed of the transceiver is the highest operating speed of other transceivers.
A plurality of transceivers having different operation speeds, and
Bus arbitration circuit with bus arbitration function for transceiver
And a register circuit for determining an operation condition of the bus arbitration circuit.
Path and a maximum operating speed of the plurality of transceivers.
Externally specified value in the register area in the register circuit
And a speed setting circuit for writing
Transmitting and receiving circuit. 3. The speed setting circuit in the transceiver.
3. The transmission according to claim 1 or 2, wherein
Receiver circuit. 4. A transceiver using the same transmission line code.
A first internal bus to which the circuit is connected and another transmission line code
A second internal bus to which the transceiver circuit to be used is connected
And a data input connected between the first and second internal buses.
And a transmission line code conversion circuit for performing output.
The transmission / reception circuit according to claim 1, 2 or 3, 5. The transmission line code conversion circuit according to claim 1, wherein :
Having a function of repeating signals between
Item 5. A transmission / reception circuit according to item 4.