TW202217580A - Processing device and method with serial communication interface processing function - Google Patents

Abstract

A processing device and method with serial communication interface processing function are provided in the present invention. The processing device includes a plurality of first Inter-Integrated circuit interface having a plurality of first interface information and connected to a plurality of slave devices having a slave device information. The processing device further includes at least one second Inter-Integrated circuit interface, a storing unit having a comparison table, and a multiplex communication processing unit. When a master device transmits a selection command including the slave device information through the second Inter-Integrated circuit interface to the multiplex communication processing unit, the multiplex communication processing unit figures out the first interface information corresponded to the mentioned the slave device information according to the comparison table for transmitting a selection communication signal to the slave device to establish a link through the mentioned first Inter-Integrated circuit interface.

Description

Processing device with serial communication interface processing function and method thereof

The present invention relates to a processing device and a method with a serial communication interface processing function, and more particularly, to a processing device and a method with a serial communication interface processing function.

With the advancement of network technology, servers play an indispensable role in people's lives. Generally speaking, a serial communication interface (Inter-Integrated Circuit, I ² C) is commonly used in server systems. the information transmission protocol, and the server system will therefore include a plurality of data processing devices, and in order to communicate with the plurality of data processing devices, generally through the serial communication interface including the serial communication interface Multiplexing module for communication.

Please refer to the first figure. The first figure is a block diagram of the communication interface system of the prior art of the present invention. As shown in the first figure, the communication interface system PA1 includes a management control module PA11 serving as a master device and a serial communication interface multiplexing module PA12, wherein the serial communication interface multiplexing module PA12 includes a A plurality of serial communication interfaces PA121, PA122, PA123 and PA124 are connected to the management control module PA11 in parallel for communication, and the serial communication interfaces PA121, PA122, PA123 and PA124 are respectively connected to the data processing device as a slave device in correspondence with each other. PA2, PA3, PA4 and PA5, and the serial communication interface multiplexing module PA12 can be, for example, a 74HC4052PW package chip.

Among them, when the management control module PA11 wants to connect with one of the data processing devices PA2, PA3, PA4 and PA5, it generally switches and connects the corresponding serial communication interfaces PA121, PA122, PA123 and PA124 by itself. in order to achieve the purpose of establishing a connection. However, in practice, the data processing devices PA2, PA3, PA4 and PA5 are not only the four shown in the embodiment, but there may even be dozens in general. In the case of limited serial communication interfaces PA121, PA122, PA123 and PA124, if you need to add more connected data processing devices PA2, PA3, PA4 and PA5, you need to add more and use the serial communication interface multiplexing module PA12 However, due to the limited pins of the management control module PA11, if the pins of the management control module PA11 are insufficient, the number of the serial communication interface multiplexing module PA12 may not be able to be smoothly increased, so there is a general increase. The problem of the limited capacity of the number of data processing devices. In addition, since the prior art only uses the management and control module PA11 to perform switching connections, the switching under multiple data processing devices is prone to instability and switching errors, so the prior art still has room for improvement.

In view of the prior art, the management and control modules of the existing systems generally have the problems of limited ability to increase the number of data processing devices and easy switching errors. One of the main objectives of the present invention is to provide a processing device with serial communication interface processing function and a method thereof to solve the problems mentioned in the prior art by adding serial communication interface processing function to the existing processing device.

In order to solve the problems of the prior art, the present invention adopts the necessary technical means to provide a processing device with a serial communication interface processing function, which comprises a plurality of first serial communication (Inter-Integrated Circuit, I ² C) interfaces, At least one second serial communication interface, a storage unit and a multiplex communication processing unit. Each of the first serial communication interfaces respectively has a first serial communication interface information, and is used for correspondingly communicating with a plurality of slave devices having a slave device information. The at least one second serial communication interface is used to communicate with a master device storing slave device information of the slave devices. The storage unit stores a communication selection comparison table including the correspondence between the first serial communication interface information of the first serial communication interfaces and the slave device information of the slave devices. The multiplex communication processing unit is electrically connected to the first serial communication interface, the second serial communication interface and the storage unit.

Wherein, when the master device sends a device selection communication command including the slave device information of one of the slave devices to the multiplex communication processing unit through the at least one second serial communication interface, the multiplex communication process is performed. The unit reads the communication selection comparison table from the storage unit, and according to the communication selection comparison table, finds out the first number of one of the first serial communication interfaces corresponding to the slave device information of one of the above-mentioned slave devices. a serial communication interface information, so as to send a selection communication signal to the communication connection of the first serial communication interface corresponding to the above-mentioned corresponding first serial communication interface through the first serial communication interface corresponding to the above-mentioned corresponding first serial communication interface information The slave device is used to trigger the communicatively connected slave device to transmit a connection establishment signal to the master device to establish the connection.

On the basis of the above necessary technical means, an auxiliary technical means derived from the present invention is that the processing device with the serial communication interface processing function is a Complex Programmable Logic Device (CPLD), and the main control device is A baseboard management controller (Baseboard Management Controller, BMC), the slave device is one of a thermal sensor, a connection slot, a hard disk, a processor and a Nanqiao chip. In addition, the above-mentioned processing device with serial communication interface processing function further includes an information transmission protocol communication interface, which is electrically connected to the multiplex communication processing unit and used for communication connection with the main control device, so as to allow the main control device to transmit information through The protocol communication interface triggers the multiplex communication processing unit to switch one of the first serial communication interfaces to establish a connection with one of the slave devices. In addition, the communication interface of the information transfer protocol is a serial general purpose input/output (SGPIO) interface, a serial peripheral interface (Serial Peripheral Interface, SPI) and a low pin count (LPC) ) interface.

In order to solve the problem of the prior art, the necessary technical means adopted by the present invention is to provide a processing method with a serial communication interface processing function, which is implemented by using the above-mentioned processing device with a serial communication interface processing function. First, the multiplex communication processing unit is used to determine whether a device selection communication command including slave device information of one of the slave devices is received from the master device via the at least one second serial communication interface. Then, when the judgment result is yes, use the multiplex communication processing unit to read the communication selection comparison table from the storage unit, and find out the corresponding slave device information of one of the above-mentioned slave devices according to the communication selection comparison table. First serial communication interface information of one of the first serial communication interfaces. Finally, the multiplex communication processing unit is used to send the selection communication signal to the slave device communicated with the corresponding first serial communication interface through the first serial communication interface corresponding to the above-mentioned corresponding first serial communication interface information , thereby triggering the above-mentioned communicatively connected slave device to transmit a connection establishment signal to the master device to establish a connection. Wherein, when the judgment result of the first step is no, the first step is repeatedly executed.

On the basis of the above necessary technical means, an auxiliary technical means derived from the present invention is that the processing device with the serial communication interface processing function is a Complex Programmable Logic Device (CPLD), and the main control device is A baseboard management controller (Baseboard Management Controller, BMC), the slave device is one of a thermal sensor, a connection slot, a hard disk, a processor and a Nanqiao chip.

Based on the above, after using the processing device with serial communication interface processing function and the method thereof provided by the present invention, the serial communication interface processing function can be directly added to the processing device provided in the original server. In practice, it is no longer necessary to use the serial communication interface multiplexing module, which can save the pins of the management control module as the main control device. It only needs to communicate with the main control device to connect to each other, and the serial communication can be switched and connected. Therefore, the main control device and the overall chip design can retain more pins for connection with other functional devices, and can effectively solve the problem of switching errors.

The specific embodiments of the present invention will be described in more detail below with reference to the schematic diagrams. The advantages and features of the present invention will become more apparent from the following description and the scope of the claims. It should be noted that the drawings are all in a very simplified form and use inaccurate scales, and are only used to facilitate and clearly assist the purpose of explaining the embodiments of the present invention.

Please refer to the second figure, which is a block diagram of a processing device with a serial communication interface processing function provided by a preferred embodiment of the present invention. As shown in the figure, the processing device 1 with the serial communication interface processing function provided by the present invention is a Complex Programmable Logic Device (CPLD). A complex programmable logic device is provided to increase the processing function of a serial communication interface to specifically reduce the space required for chip design.

The processing device 1 with serial communication interface processing function includes a plurality of first serial communication (Inter-Integrated Circuit, I ² C) interfaces 11 , 11 a , 11 b and 11 c , at least one second serial communication interface 12 , and a storage The unit 13 , a multiplex communication processing unit 14 and an information transmission protocol communication interface 15 .

Each of the first serial communication interfaces 11, 11a, 11b and 11c respectively has a first serial communication interface information, wherein, in a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the first serial communication interface information of the first serial communication interface 11 The series is defined as the first serial communication interface information A, the first serial communication interface information series of the first serial communication interface 11a is defined as the first serial communication interface information B, and the first serial communication interface information B of the first serial communication interface 11b The serial communication interface information series is defined as the first serial communication interface information C, and the first serial communication interface information series of the first serial communication interface 11c is defined as the first serial communication interface information D. In addition, the first serial communication interface information is, for example, network address information, but is not limited to this in other embodiments.

Each of the first serial communication interfaces 11 , 11 a , 11 b and 11 c is used to communicate with a plurality of slave devices 2 , 3 , 4 and 5 having a slave device information 61 , 61 a , 61 b and 61 c respectively, ie, slave devices. 2 has slave device information 61, slave device 3 has slave device information 61a, slave device 4 has slave device information 61b, and slave device 5 has slave device information 61c.

In addition, the slave device information 61, 61a, 61b, and 61c are, for example, the device number, device name, and device model, but are not limited thereto. In addition, in the preferred embodiment of the present invention, the slave devices 2, 3, 4 and 5 are one of a thermal sensor, a connection slot, a hard disk, a processor and a NAND chip, but other embodiments is not limited to this.

The at least one second serial communication interface 12 (in the preferred embodiment of the present invention, one is taken as an example, in other embodiments there can be multiple ones) is used to communicate with a storage device 2 , 3 , 4 storing the slave devices 2 , 3 , and 4 . Master device 6 with slave device information 61, 61a, 61b and 61c of 5. In addition, in a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the main control device 6 is a baseboard management controller (Baseboard Management Controller, BMC). In addition, it should be mentioned that the communication connections described in the preferred embodiments of the present invention are all wired communication connections, and other embodiments may be wireless communication connections, which depend on practical design.

The storage unit 13 can be, for example, an existing memory capable of storing data, and stores the first serial communication interface information A, B, C and D including the first serial communication interfaces 11 , 11 a , 11 b and 11 c and the first serial communication interface information A, B, C and D. The communication selection comparison table 131 of the corresponding relationship of the slave device information 61, 61a, 61b and 61c of the slave devices 2, 3, 4 and 5, wherein the communication selection comparison table 131 is for example the following table, but not limited thereto. First Serial Communication Interface Information Slave Device Information Serial Communication Interface Information A Device Connection Information 61 Serial Communication Interface Information B Device Connection Information 61a Serial Communication Interface Information C Device Connection Information 61b Serial Communication Interface Information D Device Connection Information 61c

The multiplex communication processing unit 14 is electrically connected to the first serial communication interfaces 11 , 11 a , 11 b and 11 c , the second serial communication interface 12 and the storage unit 13 . The multiplex communication processing unit 14 can be, for example, an existing processor or other controllers with processing functions, such as a central processing unit (CPU) and a microcontroller (Micro controller, MCU), but not in other embodiments. limited to this.

The information transfer protocol communication interface 15 is a serial general purpose input/output (SGPIO) interface, a serial peripheral interface (SPI) and a low pin count (LPC) One of the interfaces is electrically connected to the multiplex communication processing unit 14 and is used to communicate with the above-mentioned main control device 6 .

The master control device 6 selects a communication command including the slave device information 61 , 61 a , 61 b and 61 c of one of the slave devices 2 , 3 , 4 and 5 through the second serial communication interface 12 . When S1 is sent to the multiplex communication processing unit 14 (the slave device information 61 of the slave device 2 is taken as an example below), the multiplex communication processing unit 14 reads the communication selection comparison table 131 from the storage unit 13 , and according to the communication selection comparison table 131 Find the first serial communication interface 11 , 11 a , 11 b and 11 c corresponding to the slave device information of one of the above slave devices (ie, the slave device information 61 of the slave device 2 ) A series of serial communication interface information A, B, C and D (since the slave device information 61 corresponds to the serial communication interface information A, the multiplex communication processing unit 14 series finds the serial communication interface information A), through which the above-mentioned The first serial communication interface 11 corresponding to the corresponding first serial communication interface information A sends a selection communication signal S2 to the slave device 2 to which the corresponding first serial communication interface 11 is communicatively connected, and accordingly The slave device 2 that triggers the above-mentioned communication connection transmits a connection establishment signal S3 to the master device 6 to establish the connection.

In addition, in the preferred embodiment of the present invention, the master control device 6 is additionally provided to establish a connection with the slave devices 2 , 3 , 4 and 5 by switching the selection and the slave devices 2 , 3 , 4 and 5 through the other information transmission protocol communication interface 15 . example.

When the master control device 6 sends a device selection communication command S1a including the slave device information 61a of the slave device 3 to the multiplex communication processing unit 14 via the information transfer protocol communication interface 15, the multiplex communication processing unit 14 according to the communication The selection comparison table 131 finds out the first serial communication interface information B corresponding to the slave device information 61a, so as to send the selection communication signal S2a to the first serial communication interface 11a corresponding to the first serial communication interface information B through the first serial communication interface 11a. The slave device 3 communicated with the serial communication interface 11a triggers the slave device 3 to transmit the connection establishment signal S3a to the master device 6 to establish the connection.

Please refer to FIG. 3 , which is a flowchart showing a processing method with serial communication interface processing function provided by a preferred embodiment of the present invention. A preferred embodiment of the present invention also provides a processing method with a serial communication interface processing function, which is implemented by using the processing device with a serial communication interface processing function as shown in the second figure, and includes the following steps S101 to S101 S103.

Step S101 : Use the multiplex communication processing unit 14 to determine whether a slave device including one of the slave devices 2 , 3 , 4 and 5 is received from the master device 6 via the second serial communication interface 12 . The devices of the information 61, 61a, 61b and 61c select the communication command S1.

Step S102 : use the multiplex communication processing unit 14 to the storage unit 13 to read the communication selection comparison table 131 , and find out the slave device of one of the above-mentioned slave devices 2 , 3 , 4 and 5 according to the communication selection comparison table 131 The first serial communication interface information A, B, C and D of one of the first serial communication interfaces 11, 11a, 11b and 11c corresponding to the information 61, 61a, 61b and 61c.

Step S103: Use the multiplex communication processing unit 14 to select the communication signal S2 through the first serial communication interfaces 11, 11a, 11b and 11c corresponding to the above-mentioned corresponding first serial communication interface information A, B, C and D Sent to the above-mentioned corresponding first serial communication interfaces 11, 11a, 11b and 11c to the slave devices 2, 3, 4 and 5 that are communicatively connected, to trigger the above-mentioned communicatively connected slave devices 2, 3, 4 and 5 The connection establishment signal S3 is sent to the main control device 6 to establish the connection.

Wherein, other detailed descriptions of each step have been mentioned in the above paragraphs, so they are not repeated here.

To sum up, after using the processing device with serial communication interface processing function and the method thereof provided by the present invention, the serial communication interface processing function can be directly added to the processing device provided in the original server. The pins of the management control module as the main control device can be saved, and the serial communication interface can be switched and connected only by communicating with the main control device, so the main control device and the overall chip design can retain more pins For other functional devices to connect, and can effectively solve the problem of switching errors.

Through the detailed description of the preferred embodiments above, it is hoped that the features and spirit of the present invention can be described more clearly, and the scope of the present invention is not limited by the preferred embodiments disclosed above. On the contrary, the intention is to cover various modifications and equivalent arrangements within the scope of the claimed scope of the present invention.

PA1: Communication Interface System PA11: Management Control Module PA12: Serial communication interface multiplexing module PA121, PA122, PA123, PA124: Serial communication interface PA2,PA3,PA4,PA5: Data processing device 1: Processing device with serial communication interface processing function 11, 11a, 11b, 11c: The first serial communication interface 12: The second serial communication interface 13: Storage unit 131: Communication selection comparison table 14: Multiplex communication processing unit 15: Information transfer protocol communication interface 2,3,4,5: Slave devices 6: Main control device 61, 61a, 61b, 61c: Slave device information S1, S1a: Device selection communication command S2, S2a: select communication signal S3, S3a: Connection establishment signal S101-S103: Steps

The first figure is a block diagram showing the communication interface system of the prior art of the present invention; The second figure is a block diagram showing a processing device with serial communication interface processing function provided by a preferred embodiment of the present invention; and FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing a processing method with serial communication interface processing function provided by a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

1: Processing device with serial communication interface processing function

11, 11a, 11b, 11c: The first serial communication interface

12: The second serial communication interface

13: Storage unit

131: Communication selection comparison table

14: Multiplex communication processing unit

15: Information transfer protocol communication interface

2,3,4,5: Slave devices

6: Main control device

61, 61a, 61b, 61c: Slave device information

S1, S1a: Device selection communication command

S2, S2a: select communication signal

S3, S3a: Connection establishment signal

Claims (10)

A processing device with serial communication interface processing function, comprising: a plurality of first serial communication (Inter-Integrated Circuit, I ² C) interfaces, each first serial communication interface has a first serial communication interface respectively information, and is used to communicate and connect to a plurality of slave devices having a slave device information correspondingly respectively; at least one second serial communication interface is used to communicate and connect to a master that stores the slave device information of the slave devices a control device; and a storage unit storing a communication selection comparison table including the correspondence between the first serial communication interface information of the first serial communication interfaces and the slave device information of the slave devices; and a A multiplex communication processing unit is electrically connected to the first serial communication interfaces, the at least one second serial communication interface and the storage unit; wherein, the master control device communicates via the at least one second serial communication When the interface sends a device selection communication command including the slave device information of one of the slave devices to the multiplex communication processing unit, the multiplex communication processing unit reads the communication selection comparison from the storage unit and finding out the first serial communication interface information of one of the first serial communication interfaces corresponding to the slave device information of one of the slave devices according to the communication selection comparison table, Thereby, a selection communication signal is sent to the slave device communicatively connected to the above-mentioned corresponding first serial communication interface through the first serial communication interface corresponding to the above-mentioned corresponding first serial communication interface information, Accordingly, the slave device in the communication connection is triggered to transmit a connection establishment signal to the master device to establish a connection. The processing device with serial communication interface processing function according to claim 1, wherein the processing device with serial communication interface processing function is a complex programmable logic device (CPLD). The processing device with a serial communication interface processing function according to claim 1, wherein the main control device is a baseboard management controller (BMC). The processing device with a serial communication interface processing function as claimed in claim 1, wherein the slave device is one of a thermal sensor, a connection slot, a hard disk, a processor and a Nanqiao chip. The processing device with a serial communication interface processing function as described in claim 1, further comprising an information transfer protocol communication interface, which is electrically connected to the multiplex communication processing unit and used to communicate with the main control device ; Wherein, when the master control device sends the device selection communication command to the multiplex communication processing unit via the information transmission protocol communication interface, the multiplex communication processing unit reads the communication selection comparison table from the storage unit, and Find out the first serial communication interface information of one of the first serial communication interfaces corresponding to the slave device information of one of the slave devices according to the communication selection comparison table, so as to obtain the first serial communication interface information through the above-mentioned The first serial communication interface corresponding to the first serial communication interface information corresponding to the first serial communication interface sends the selection communication signal to the slave device communicated with the corresponding first serial communication interface, so as to trigger the The communicatively connected slave device transmits the connection establishment signal to the master device to establish a connection. The processing device with a serial communication interface processing function according to claim 5, wherein the information transfer protocol communication interface is a serial general purpose input/output (SGPIO) interface, a serial peripheral One of the Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) and the Low Pin Count (LPC) interface. A processing method with a serial communication interface processing function is implemented by using the processing device with a serial communication interface processing function as described in claim 1, and includes the following steps: (a) using the multiplex communication processing unit to determine whether the device including the slave device information of one of the slave devices transmitted from the master device via the at least one second serial communication interface is received select communication commands; (b) When the judgment result of step (a) is yes, use the multiplex communication processing unit to read the communication selection comparison table from the storage unit, and find out which of the above-mentioned slave devices according to the communication selection comparison table the first serial communication interface information of one of the first serial communication interfaces to which the slave device information corresponds; and (c) using the multiplex communication processing unit to send the selection communication signal to the first serial communication corresponding to the above through the first serial communication interface corresponding to the above-mentioned corresponding first serial communication interface information The slave device communicatively connected to the interface, thereby triggering the communicatively connected slave device to transmit the connection establishment signal to the master device to establish a connection; Wherein, when the judgment result of the step (a) is no, the step (a) is repeatedly executed. The processing method with serial communication interface processing function according to claim 7, wherein the processing device with serial communication interface processing function is a Complex Programmable Logic Device (CPLD). The processing method with a serial communication interface processing function according to claim 7, wherein the main control device is a baseboard management controller (BMC). The processing method with serial communication interface processing function as claimed in claim 7, wherein the slave device is one of a thermal sensor, a connection slot, a hard disk, a processor and a Nanqiao chip.

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