Subscriber station for a serial bus system, and method for communication in a serial bus system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12284264-B2
Application number	US-202118040242-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 15, 2021
Priority date	Aug 5, 2020
Publication date	Apr 22, 2025
Grant date	Apr 22, 2025

Abstract

A subscriber station for a serial bus system and a method for communication. The subscriber station has a communication control device controlling a communication of the subscriber station with at least one other subscriber station of the bus system and generating a transmit signal. The communication control device generates the transmit signal according to a frame and to insert a field having a rising edge and a subsequent falling edge into the frame for the transition from a first communication phase to a second communication phase. The field has a predetermined length between the rising edge and the subsequent falling edge such that a sampling time at which a communication control device of the at least one other subscriber station of the bus system will sample the first bit of the second communication phase is situated between the rising edge and the subsequent falling edge.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A subscriber station for a serial bus system, comprising:
a communication control device configured to control a communication of the subscriber station with at least one other subscriber station of the bus system and to generate a transmit signal, so that, for a message exchanged between subscriber stations of the bus system, a bit time of a signal transmitted to a bus of the bus system in a first communication phase can differ from a bit time of a signal transmitted in a second communication phase;
wherein the communication control device is configured to generate the transmit signal according to a frame and to insert a field with a rising edge and a subsequent falling edge into the frame for a transition from the first communication phase to the second communication phase, and the field between the rising edge and the subsequent falling edge having a predetermined length such that a sampling time at which a communication control device of the at least one other subscriber station of the bus system will sample a first bit of the second communication phase is located between the rising edge and the subsequent falling edge.

2. The subscriber station as recited in claim 1 , wherein the predetermined length of the field having at least three bits with the bit time of the second communication phase.

3. The subscriber station as recited in claim 1 , wherein the falling edge defines a start of a predetermined bit of the second communication phase.

4. The subscriber station as recited in claim 1 , wherein the communication control device is configured to insert the field as a bit sequence having a logical value 1110.

5. The subscriber station as recited in claim 1 , wherein the communication control device is configured to insert, in the field before the falling edge, a bit with the bit time of the first communication phase and subsequently to insert a bit with the bit time of the second communication phase, the communication control device being configured to additionally insert, following the bit with the bit time of the second communication phase, a number of M bits with the bit time of the second communication phase, each having a same logical value as the first bit of the second communication phase, M being a natural number greater than or equal to 1.

6. The subscriber station as recited in claim 1 , wherein the communication control device is configured to act as a receiving node in the second communication phase, so that the communication control device acts only as a receiver but not as a transmitter of the frame to the bus, and wherein the communication control device is configured to tolerate in the field, starting from and including a sampling time at which the communication control device samples the first bit of the second communication phase and before the falling edge of the field, a number of N bits with the bit time of the second communication phase each having a logical value 1, wherein Nis a natural number greater than or equal to 1, and the communication control device is configured to use the falling edge of the field to synchronize to the communication on the bus.

7. The subscriber station as recited in claim 1 , further comprising:
a transceiver device configured to transmit the transmit signal to the bus of the bus system, the communication control device being configured to signal to the transceiver device by pulse width modulation in the transmit signal that the transceiver device has to switch its operating mode.

8. The subscriber station as recited in claim 7 , wherein the communication control device is configured to signal to the transceiver device directly after the rising edge of the field, by pulse width modulation in the transmit signal, that the transceiver device has to switch its operating mode from an operating mode of the first communication phase to a different operating mode of the second communication phase.

9. The subscriber station as recited in claim 7 , wherein the communication control device is configured to signal to the transceiver device, using S directly successive PWM symbols in the transmit signal, to which operating mode of the second communication phase the transceiver device has to switch its operating mode, where S is a natural number greater than or equal to 1.

10. The subscriber station as recited in claim 7 , wherein the communication control device is configured to send at least a last part of a bit which has the bit time of the first communication phase with the same logical value as a first bit in the field, which has the bit time of the second communication phase.

11. The subscriber station as recited in claim 1 , further comprising:
a transceiver device configured to transmit the transmit signal to the bus of the bus system, the transceiver device being configured to transmit the entire frame to the bus in an operating mode for transmitting and receiving the frame in the first communication phase.

12. The subscriber station as recited in claim 1 , wherein the frame formed for the message is constructed to be compatible with CAN FD, and wherein it is negotiated in the first communication phase which of the subscriber stations of the bus system receives an at least temporarily exclusive, collision-free access to the bus in a subsequent second communication phase.

13. A bus system, comprising:
a bus; and
at least two subscriber stations that are connected to one another via the bus in such a way that they can communicate with each other serially and of which at least one subscriber station includes:
a communication control device configured to control a communication of the subscriber station with at least one other subscriber station of the bus system and to generate a transmit signal, so that, for a message exchanged between subscriber stations of the bus system, a bit time of a signal transmitted to the bus in a first communication phase can differ from a bit time of a signal transmitted in a second communication phase;
wherein the communication control device is configured to generate the transmit signal according to a frame and to insert a field with a rising edge and a subsequent falling edge into the frame for a transition from the first communication phase to the second communication phase, and the field between the rising edge and the subsequent falling edge having a predetermined length such that a sampling time at which a communication control device of the at least one other subscriber station of the bus system will sample a first bit of the second communication phase is located between the rising edge and the subsequent falling edge.

14. A method for communication in a serial bus system, the method being carried out with a subscriber station of the bus system that has a communication control device and a transceiver device, the method comprising the following steps:
controlling, with the communication control device, a communication of the subscriber station with at least one other subscriber station of the bus system so that, for a message exchanged between subscriber stations of the bus system, a bit time of a signal transmitted to a bus of the bus system in a first communication phase can differ from a bit time of a signal transmitted in the second communication phase; and
transmitting, with the transceiver device, the transmit signal to the bus of the bus system,
wherein the communication control device generates the transmit signal according to a frame and inserts a field with a rising edge and a subsequent falling edge into the frame for a transition from the first communication phase to the second communication phase, the field having a predeter

Assignees

• Bosch Gmbh Robert

Inventors

• Mutter Arthur
• Hartwich Florian
• Bailer Franz

Classifications

• H04L2012/40273

  the transportation system being a vehicle · CPC title

• H04L2012/40215

  Controller Area Network CAN · CPC title

• H04L25/4902

  Pulse width modulation; Pulse position modulation · CPC title

• H04L12/413

  with random access, e.g. carrier-sense multiple-access with collision detection [CSMA-CD] · CPC title

• H04L12/40169

  Flexible bus arrangements (arrangements for maintenance or administration involving management of faults; events, alarms H04L41/06; automatic restoration of network faults H04L41/0654) · CPC title