Semiconductor device and serial data transmission line system
View Patent ↗A semiconductor device and a serial data transmission line system have a reception circuit and an adaptive equalizer circuit. A supply source of a power supply supplied with the reception circuit is selected based on correction intensity of the correction value calculated by the adaptive equalizer circuit. When correction intensity of the correction value calculated by the adaptive equalizer circuit is not less than a threshold value, the supply source of the power supply supplied to the reception circuit and the adaptive equalizer circuit is switched, and a noise level of the power supply is reduced.
1. A semiconductor device comprising:
a reception circuit that operates based on an operation power supply, and reproduces a clock signal from serial data;
an equalizer circuit that operates based on the operation power supply, calculates a correction value according to a distortion amount of serial data received by the reception circuit, reproduces reception data based on the correction value; and
a power supply management circuit that outputs a power supply selection signal according to the correction value, and receives one of a first power supply and a second power supply based on the power supply selection signal as the operation power supply,
wherein the second power supply has a noise level smaller than that of the first power supply.
2. The semiconductor device according to claim 1 , wherein the power supply management circuit instructs a power supply generation circuit to output and receives one of the first power supply and the second power supply based on the power supply selection signal, when the correction value is not less than a preset threshold value, the power supply generation circuit provides the second power supply as the operation power supply.
3. The semiconductor device according to claim 2 , further comprising a plurality of reception blocks each of which has a set of the reception circuit and the equalizer circuit, wherein
the equalizer circuits included in the plurality of reception blocks respectively generate the correction value when an other device is connected to an input terminal of the corresponding reception circuit, and respectively output a disconnection notice signal that notifies the power supply management circuit that the other device has been disconnected when the other device is disconnected, and
the power supply management circuit determines presence/absence of the reception block in which the correction value is not less than the preset threshold value in response to the transmitting of the disconnection notice signal, and if it is determined that the reception block in which the correction value is not less than the preset threshold value is not present, the power supply management circuit instructs the power supply generation circuit to output the first power supply as the operation power supply by the power supply selection signal.
4. The semiconductor device according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a plurality of reception blocks each of which has a set of the reception circuit and the equalizer circuit; and
a plurality of the power supply management circuits provided so as to correspond to the plurality of reception blocks,
wherein the power supply generation circuit switches which of the first power supply and the second power supply is provided as the operation power supply for each of the plurality of reception blocks based on a plurality of the power supply selection signals output by the plurality of the power supply management circuits.
5. The semiconductor device according to claim 4 , wherein
the equalizer circuits included in the plurality of reception blocks respectively generate the correction value when an other device is connected to an input terminal of the reception circuit, and respectively output a disconnection notice signal that notifies a corresponding power supply management circuit that the other device has been disconnected when the other device is disconnected, and
a plurality of the power supply management circuits respectively instruct the power supply generation circuit to output the first power supply as the operation power supply by the power supply selection signal in response to the transmitting of disconnection notice signal having.
6. The semiconductor device according to claim 1 , further comprising a power supply generation circuit which includes:
a first power supply circuit that generates the first power supply based on an external power supply provided from outside;
a second power supply circuit that generates the second power supply based on the external power supply; and
at least one power supply selection switch circuit that selects either one of the first power supply and the second power supply based on the power supply selection signal, and outputs the selected power supply as the operation power supply.
7. The semiconductor device according to claim 6 , wherein
the first power supply circuit comprises a switching regulator, and
the second power supply circuit comprises a linear regulator.
8. The semiconductor device according to claim 6 , wherein the power supply selection switch circuit is formed on one semiconductor substrate together with the reception circuit, the equalizer circuit, and the power supply management circuit.
9. The semiconductor device according to claim 8 , wherein the first power supply circuit and the second power supply circuit are formed on one semiconductor substrate together with the reception circuit, the equalizer circuit, and the power supply management circuit.
10. A serial data transmission line system comprising:
a first power supply circuit that generates a first power supply based on an external power supply provided from outside;
a second power supply circuit that generates a second power supply whose noise level is lower than that of the first power supply based on the external power supply;
a reception circuit that operates based on an operation power supply, and reproduces a clock signal from serial data;
an equalizer circuit that operates based on the operation power supply, calculates a correction value according to a distortion amount of serial data received by the reception circuit, corrects distortion of the serial data according to the correction value, and reproduces reception data;
a power supply management circuit that outputs a power supply selection signal according to the correction value; and
a power supply selection switch circuit that selects either one of the first power supply and the second power supply based on the power supply selection signal, and outputs the selected power supply as the operation power supply.
11. The serial data transmission line system according to claim 10 , wherein the power supply management circuit instructs the power supply selection switch circuit to select the second power supply based on the power supply selection signal, when the correction value is not less than a preset threshold value.
12. The serial data transmission line system according to claim 11 , further comprising a plurality of reception blocks each of which has a set of the reception circuit and the equalizer circuit, wherein
the equalizer circuits included in the plurality of reception blocks respectively generate the correction value when an other device is connected to an input terminal of the corresponding reception circuit, and respectively output a disconnection notice signal that notifies the power supply management circuit that the other device has been disconnected when the other device is disconnected, and
the power supply management circuit determines presence/absence of the reception block in which the correction value is not less than the threshold value in response to the disconnection notice signal having been transmitted, and if it is determined that the reception block in which the correction value is not less than the threshold value is not present, the power supply management circuit instructs the power supply selection switch circuit to output the first power supply as the operation power supply by the power supply selection signal.
13. The serial data transmission line system according to claim 10 , further comprising:
a plurality of reception blocks each of which has a set of the reception circuit and the equalizer circuit;
a plurality of the power supply management circuits provided so as to correspond to the plurality of reception blocks; and
a plurality of the power supply selection switch circuits provided so as to correspond to the plurality of reception blocks,
wherein the plurality of power supply selection switch circuits switch which of the first power supply and the second power supply is provided as the operation power supply for each of the plurality of reception blocks based on a plurality of the power supply selection signals output by the plurality of the power supply management circuits.
14. The serial data transmission line system according to claim 13 , wherein
the equalizer circuits included in the plurality of reception blocks respectively generate the correction value when an other device is connected to an input terminal of the reception circuit, and respectively output a disconnection notice signal that notifies a corresponding power supply management circuit that the other device has been disconnected when the other device is disconnected, and
the plurality of the power supply management circuits respectively instruct the plurality of the power supply selection switch circuits to output the first power supply as the operation power supply by the power supply selection signal in response to the disconnection notice signal having been transmitted.
15. The serial data transmission line system according to claim 10 , wherein at least the reception circuit, the equalizer circuit, and the power supply management circuit are formed on one semiconductor substrate.
16. The serial data transmission line system according to claim 10 , wherein
the first power supply circuit comprises a switching regulator, and
the second power supply circuit comprises a linear regulator.