Termination apparatus, termination control method, and storage medium on which termination control program has been stored

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9917583-B2
Application number	US-201515127384-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 26, 2015
Priority date	Mar 20, 2014
Publication date	Mar 13, 2018
Grant date	Mar 13, 2018

Abstract

[Problem] To provide a termination control apparatus that can provide an optimum termination state. [Solution] Included are: an input terminal to which an input signal is inputted; a termination resistance unit that terminates the input terminal by use of a variable resistor the resistance value of which can be set; a voltage measurement unit that measures the voltage of the input signal; and a control unit that changes the resistance value or a target voltage range when the voltage is not within the target voltage range having been set for the input signal on the basis of both an absolute maximum rated value and an operation-guaranteed voltage.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A termination device comprising:
an input terminal which receives an input signal;
a terminator which terminates the input terminal by a variable resistance whose resistance value is settable;
a voltage measure which measures a voltage of the input signal; and
a control which changes the resistance value when the voltage is not included in a target voltage range set for the input signal on a basis of an absolute maximum rating value and an operation guarantee voltage,
wherein, the control sets a new target voltage range when the voltage once satisfies the target voltage range, and then changes the resistance value again.

2. The termination device according to claim 1 , wherein
the control holds a peak voltage being a peak value of the voltage, and changes the resistance value or the target voltage range when the peak voltage is not included in the target voltage range.

3. The termination device according to claim 1 , wherein
the variable resistance includes a plurality of resistive elements, and sets the resistance value by switching a mutual connection relationship between the plurality of resistive elements.

4. The termination device according to claim 3 , wherein
the variable resistance changes the resistance value by connecting each of the plurality of the resistive elements in series between the input terminal and the fixed potential terminal, or by connecting each of the plurality of the resistive elements in parallel to the other one of the resistive elements.

5. The termination device according to claim 1 , wherein
the terminator terminates the input terminal by a designated circuit configuration out of a pullup configuration, a pulldown configuration, and a Thevenin configuration, and
the control changes the circuit configuration when the voltage is not included in the target voltage range.

6. The termination device according to claim 1 , comprising:
a plurality of the input terminals, wherein
the voltage measure measures the voltage of the input signal input to a selected one of the plurality of the input terminals, and
the control changes the resistance value or the target voltage range when the voltage is not included in the target voltage range.

7. The termination device according to claim 1 , wherein
the input signal is input by one of a plurality of external output devices, and
the control changes the resistance value depending on the output device which receives the input signal.

8. An electronic device comprising:
the termination device of claim 1 ; and
an internal circuit which receives the input signal as an internal signal, and performs a predetermined process.

9. A termination control method comprising:
measuring a voltage of an input signal input to an input terminal; and
changing a resistance value which terminates the input when the voltage is not included in a target voltage range set for the input signal on a basis of an absolute maximum rating value and an operation guarantee voltage,
setting a new target voltage range when the voltage once satisfies the target voltage range, and then changing the resistance value again.

10. A storage medium storing a termination control program which causes a computer provided in a termination device including an input terminal which receives an input signal, a terminator which terminates the input terminal by a variable resistance whose resistance value is settable, and a voltage measure which measures a voltage of the input signal to function as:
a control which changes the resistance value when the voltage is not included in a target voltage range set for the input signal on a basis of an absolute maximum rating value and an operation guarantee voltage,
wherein, the control sets a new target voltage range when the voltage once satisfies the target voltage range, and then changes the resistance value again.

Assignees

• Nec Corp

Inventors

• Kuroiwa Tsuguhito

Classifications

• H03K19/0005 Primary

  Modifications of input or output impedance · CPC title

• H03K19/018557

  Coupling arrangements; Impedance matching circuits · CPC title

• H03K19/017545

  Coupling arrangements; Impedance matching circuits · CPC title

• H03K19/0175 Primary

  Coupling arrangements; Interface arrangements (interface arrangements for digital computers G06F3/00, G06F13/00) · CPC title

• H04L25/00

  Baseband systems · CPC title