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

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12355585-B2
Application number	US-202118040243-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 15, 2021
Priority date	Aug 5, 2020
Publication date	Jul 8, 2025
Grant date	Jul 8, 2025

Abstract

A subscriber station for a serial bus system. The subscriber station has a communication control device for controlling a communication of the subscriber station with at least one other subscriber station of the bus system. The communication control device generates a transmit signal according to a frame and inserts a field having an edge into the frame after a second communication phase. The field has, before the edge, a predetermined length corresponding to a time period that is longer than the time period of a bit time of a first communication phase. The edge is provided for synchronization to the communication on the bus for a communication control device of the at least one other subscriber station of the bus system whose transceiver device is switched, before the predetermined time period, into an operating mode for transmitting and receiving the frame in the first communication phase.

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 the bus in a first communication phase can differ from a bit time of a signal transmitted in the second communication phase;
wherein the communication control device is configured to generate the transmit signal for the message according to a frame and to insert a field with an edge into the frame after the second communication phase, the field having, before the edge, a predetermined length corresponding to a predetermined time period that is longer than a time duration of the bit time of the first communication phase; and
wherein the edge is provided for synchronization to the communication on the bus for a communication control device of the at least one other subscriber station of the bus system, whose transceiver device is switched, before the predetermined time period, to an operating mode for transmitting and receiving the frame in the first communication phase.

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

3. The subscriber station as recited in claim 1 , wherein the edge is a falling edge.

4. The subscriber station as recited in claim 1 , wherein the communication control device is configured to insert a bit sequence having a logical value 11 in the field before the edge.

5. The subscriber station as recited in claim 1 , wherein the communication control device is configured to insert the field as a bit sequence having the logical value 1101.

6. The subscriber station as recited in claim 1 , wherein the communication control device is 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.

7. The subscriber station as recited in claim 1 , further comprising:
a transceiver device configured to transmit the transmit signal to a bus of the bus system, the transceiver device of the subscriber station being configured to switch its operating mode from an operating mode of the second communication phase to a different operating mode of the first communication phase after an elapsing of a predetermined time period in which the transceiver device of the subscriber station has not received any edges in the transmit signal.

8. The subscriber station as recited in claim 7 , wherein the communication control device is configured to insert a PWM symbol with a logical value 0 as a last symbol in the transmit signal before the start of the predetermined time period.

9. The subscriber station as recited in claim 7 , wherein the communication control device is configured to insert a PWM symbol with a logical value 1 as a last symbol in the transmit signal before the start of the predetermined time period.

10. The subscriber station as recited in claim 7 , wherein the communication control device is configured to insert a PWM symbol having a logical value 0 as a next-to-last symbol in the transmit signal before the start of the predetermined time period, and to insert a PWM symbol having a logical value 0 but not having a terminating edge as a last symbol in the transmit signal before the start of the predetermined time period.

11. The subscriber station as recited in claim 7 , wherein the communication control device is configured to check a signal at a terminal at which the transceiver device of the subscriber station transmits a receive signal to the communication control device with regard to whether the transceiver device of the subscriber station has switched its operating mode from the operating mode of the second communication phase to the different operating mode of the first communication phase.

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

13. The subscriber station as recited in claim 1 , wherein the frame formed for the message is constructed to be compatible with CAN FD, and it being 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.

14. 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 the second communication phase,
wherein the communication control device is configured to generate the transmit signal for the message according to a frame and to insert a field with an edge into the frame after the second communication phase, the field having, before the edge, a predetermined length corresponding to a predetermined time period that is longer than a time duration of the bit time of the first communication phase, and
wherein the edge is provided for synchronization to the communication on the bus for a communication control device of the at least one other subscriber station of the bus system, whose transceiver device is switched, before the predetermined time period, to an operating mode for transmitting and receiving the frame in the first communication phase.

15. 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 the bus in a first communication phase can differ from a bit time of a signal transmitted in the second communication phase; and
transmitting, using the transceiver device, a transmit signal formed for the message to a bus of the bus system, the communication control device generating the transmit signal according to a frame and inserting a field with an edge into the frame after the second communication phase, the field having, before the edge, a predetermined length corresponding to a predetermined time period that is longer than a time duration of the bit time of the first communication phase, and the edge being provided for synchronization to the communication on the bus for a communication control device of the at least one other subscriber station of the bus system, whose transceiver device is switched, before the predetermined time period, to an operating mode for transmitting and receiving the frame in the first

Assignees

• Bosch Gmbh Robert

Inventors

• Mutter Arthur
• Hartwich Florian
• Bailer Franz
• Horst Christian

Classifications

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• H03K7/08

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• H04L12/40013 Primary

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