Communication control device and transmit/receive device for a subscriber station of a serial bus system and method for communication in a serial bus system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12413445-B2
Application number	US-202217874507-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 27, 2022
Priority date	Aug 12, 2021
Publication date	Sep 9, 2025
Grant date	Sep 9, 2025

Abstract

A communication control device. The communication control device has a communication control module for generating a transmit signal for controlling communication of the subscriber station with other subscriber station(s) of the bus system which uses at least one first communication phase and one second communication phase for exchanging messages between subscriber stations of the bus system, and an interface module for encoding the transmit signal in at least one part of the second communication phase of a message into an encoded transmit signal, and for inserting additional data into at least one symbol of the encoded transmit signal. The interface module is configured to insert the additional data into the encoded transmit signal as at least one symbol of the encoded transmit signal serially with the information of the symbol of the transmit signal. The symbol duration of the transmit signal and of the encoded transmit signal is identical.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A communication control device for a subscriber station of a serial bus system that includes a plurality of subscriber stations, the subscriber station being one of the plurality of subscriber stations, comprising:
a communication control module configured to generate a transmit signal for a transceiver of the subscriber station that communicates with at least one other subscriber station of the plurality of subscriber stations of the bus system, wherein the bus system is configured to use at least one first communication phase and one second communication phase for exchanging messages between the plurality of subscriber stations of the bus system, wherein the transmit signal includes data of one of the messages to be transmitted by the transceiver; and
an interface module configured to:
encode the transmit signal in at least one part of the second communication phase of the one of the messages into an encoded transmit signal that includes at least one symbol; and
insert additional data, that controls a behavior of the transceiver, into the at least one symbol of the encoded transmit signal, such that the additional data is interleaved serially with the data of the at least one symbol of the one of the messages of the transmit signal; and

wherein a symbol duration of the transmit signal and of the encoded transmit signal is identical.

2. The communication control device as recited in claim 1 , wherein the interface module is configured to carry out pulse-width modulation for encoding the transmit signal in at least one part of the second communication phase of the message.

3. A communication control device for a subscriber station of a serial bus system, the communication control device comprising:
a communication control module configured to generate a transmit signal for controlling communication of the subscriber station with at least one other subscriber station of the bus system, wherein the bus system is configured to use at least one first communication phase and one second communication phase for exchanging messages between subscriber stations of the bus system; and
an interface module configured to encode the transmit signal in at least one part of the second communication phase of a message into an encoded transmit signal, and to insert additional data into at least one symbol of the encoded transmit signal;
wherein:
the interface module is configured to insert the additional data into the encoded transmit signal as at least one symbol of the encoded transmit signal serially with information of the symbol of the transmit signal;
a symbol duration of the transmit signal and of the encoded transmit signal is identical; and
the interface module is configured to subdivide the symbol duration of the transmit signal for the encoded transmit signal into n symbols for a first symbol of the transmit signal and into n symbols for a second symbol of the transmit signal, wherein n is a natural number greater than or equal to 1.

4. The communication control device as recited in claim 3 , wherein the interface module is configured to insert the information of the symbol of the transmit signal into the first or last symbol of the 2*n symbols of the symbol duration of the encoded transmit signal.

5. The communication control device as recited in claim 3 , wherein the interface module is configured to insert the additional data between the first and last symbols of the 2*n symbols of the symbol duration of the encoded transmit signal.

6. A communication control device for a subscriber station of a serial bus system, the communication control device comprising:
a communication control module configured to generate a transmit signal for controlling communication of the subscriber station with at least one other subscriber station of the bus system, wherein the bus system is configured to use at least one first communication phase and one second communication phase for exchanging messages between subscriber stations of the bus system; and
an interface module configured to encode the transmit signal in at least one part of the second communication phase of a message into an encoded transmit signal, and to insert additional data into at least one symbol of the encoded transmit signal;
wherein:
the interface module is configured to insert the additional data into the encoded transmit signal as at least one symbol of the encoded transmit signal serially with information of the symbol of the transmit signal;
a symbol duration of the transmit signal and of the encoded transmit signal is identical; and
the communication control module is configured to generate the transmit signal in the first communication phase of the message with symbols with a first bit time which is at least a factor of 10 greater than a second bit time of symbols which the communication control module generates in the transmit signal in the second communication phase of the message.

7. A transmit/receive device of a subscriber station of a serial bus system that includes a plurality of subscriber stations, the subscriber station being one of the plurality of subscriber stations, wherein the bus system is configured to use a first communication phase and a second communication phase for exchanging messages between the plurality of subscriber stations of the bus system, the transmit/receive device comprising:
a transmit module configured to transmit, to another one of the subscriber stations and via a bus of the bus system, data of one of the messages, the data having been encoded, from a transmit signal, with at least one symbol in an encoded transmit signal; and
an interface module configured to decode the encoded transmit signal in at least one part of the second communication phase of the one of the messages to extract additional data from the at least one symbol of the encoded transmit signal;
wherein:
the additional data had been inserted into the at least one symbol of the encoded transmit signal to be interleaved serially with the data of the at least one symbol of the one of the messages;
a behavior of the transmit module is controlled according to the extracted additional data; and
a symbol duration of the transmit signal and of the encoded transmit signal is identical.

8. The transmit/receive device as recited in claim 7 , wherein the interface module is configured to carry out decoding of pulse-width modulation of the transmit signal in the at least one part of the second communication phase of the message.

9. The transmit/receive device as recited in claim 7 , wherein the transmit module is configured to transmit the data of the one of the messages as a differential signal to the bus.

10. The transmit/receive device as recited in claim 7 , wherein the transmit module is configured to generate a transmit signal in the first communication phase of the message and transmit it to the bus with a different physical layer than in the second communication phase of the message.

11. The device as recited in claim 7 , wherein the additional data include at least one form of data of the following data: (i) data for signaling to the transmit/receive device an operating mode into which the transmit/receive device has to switch for a following communication phase, and/or (ii) data for configuration of the transmit/receive device, and/or (iii) data with a request to the transmit/receive device, and/or (iv) data for signaling to the transmit/receive device a differential voltage with which the transmit/receive device is to operate for the bus, and/or (v) data for programming or flashing devices, and/or (vi) data with a trigger for a predetermined wake-up pattern for a predetermined subscriber station of the

Assignees

• Bosch Gmbh Robert

Inventors

• Walker Steffen
• Mutter Arthur
• Hartwich Florian

Classifications

• H04L12/40078

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• H04L2012/40215

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• H04L12/40013 Primary

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