| Patent application number | Description | Published |
| 20090031064 | Information processing apparatus including transfer device for transferring requests - According to an aspect of an embodiment, an apparatus has a pair of first system boards, each of the first system boards including a processor and being adapted for sending duplicate requests, in parallel, respectively, a second system board including a processor and being adapted for sending requests, a first transfer device for transferring requests, having a first arbiter for selecting and outputting one of the duplicate requests sent from each of the first system boards, and a second arbiter for selecting and outputting one of the requests sent from the second system board and a second transfer device for transferring requests, having a third arbiter for selecting one of the duplicate requests sent from each of the first system boards and outputting the selected request in synchronization with the selected request outputted by the first arbiter, the second transfer device having a forth arbiter. | 01-29-2009 |
| 20090300452 | ERROR IDENTIFYING METHOD, DATA PROCESSING DEVICE, AND SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE - A data processing device which performs a data transmission between semiconductor devices using a plurality of signal lines. In the data processing device, when there occurs an error in a data transmission from a transmitting device to a receiving device using a plurality of signal lines, data in which the error has occurred is stored. The stored data is compared bit by bit with non-erroneous data, thereby designating a bit in which error has occurred in the stored data. | 12-03-2009 |
| 20100275084 | TRANSMISSION DEVICE, RECEIVING CIRCUIT AND CONTROL METHOD OF TRANSMISSION DEVICE - A transmitting circuit transmits data to which an error detection code is attached to a receiving circuit via a transmission path. When detecting the error of the data received via the transmission path, a receiving circuit transmits a retransmit request for the data in which the error is detected to the transmitting circuit. The receiving circuit enters a termination unit adjustment period using the error detection of the received data as a trigger and updates the resistance values of a receiving side termination unit installed at the termination of the transmission path to an appropriate value within the termination unit adjustment period. | 10-28-2010 |
| 20110072296 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, DATA RECEPTION DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - A clock adjustment circuit delays a phase of a clock signal on the basis of a TAP value so as to output an adjusted clock signal. By synchronizing transmission data with the adjusted clock signal, reception data is generated. A data adjustment circuit delays the transmission data on the basis of a TAP2 value. By synchronizing the delayed transmission data with the adjusted clock signal, adjusted reception data is generated. A data adjustment control circuit generates the TAP2 value on the basis of a result of a comparison between the reception data and the adjusted reception data, and outputs to a clock adjustment control circuit an instruction to update the TAP value. | 03-24-2011 |
| 20110083059 | Information processing device, data transmitting device, and data transfer method of data transmitting device - A selection-signal generating circuit in an LSI being a transmission-side LSI, when a transmission error is detected on an A-side signal line and degeneration control is performed thereon, instructs a selector to select an input from an ECC generator in order to transmit data and ECC data for this data to be transmitted via the B-side signal line, via the A-side signal line. In this manner, the degenerated signal line is used to transmit the ECC data for transmission data to be transmitted via a signal line which is not degenerated. | 04-07-2011 |
| 20110309868 | Data transfer unit, data transmission device, data receiving device, and control method - A transmission LSI calculates a buffer usage rate in accordance with data stored in a buffer in a transmission data processing unit and determines, in accordance with the calculated buffer usage rate, the number of signal lines that perform a phase readjustment and the timing thereof. Then, the transmission LSI and a receiving LSI perform a phase adjustment using some of the signal lines and continues a data transfer using the rest of the signal lines. Accordingly, it is possible to maintain the optimum phase of a clock without delaying the data transfer. | 12-22-2011 |
| 20120008670 | SELF-TESTING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PHASE ADJUSTMENT CIRCUIT - A signal inversion unit inverts an adjustment pattern signal input as received data. A clock adjustment control circuit acquires a first TAP value adjusted and obtained when a phase adjusting operation is performed on a clock adjustment circuit in a state in which the adjustment pattern signal is not inverted, a first detection frequency of the adjustment pattern signal in a runtime of the operation, a second TAP value adjusted and obtained when the phase adjusting operation is performed in a state in which the adjustment pattern signal is inverted by the signal inversion unit, and a second detection frequency of the adjustment pattern signal in the runtime of the operation. A controller tests an operating state of the phase adjusting operation based on the first and second TAP values and the first and second detection frequencies of the adjustment pattern obtained by the clock adjustment control circuit. | 01-12-2012 |