This disclosure relates to electronic devices and, more particularly, to wakeup detectors for electronic devices.
Many electronic devices, such as storage devices, attempt to manage power consumption and usage by utilizing various power management systems. For example, an electronic device may include a number of power states. Such multiple power states may include states such as a normal operating state (or higher power state) where power is provided to various components of the electronic device and a lower power state (lower as less power may be consumed than in the normal operating state) where power is not provided, or a lower amount of power is provided, to at least some of the components. The electronic device may operate in the normal power state when the components are used and in the lower power state when the components are not used, avoiding power wastage by providing power to currently unnecessary components.
When an electronic device operates in such a lower power state, it may determine when the components are to be used so that the state can then switch from the lower power state to the normal operating state. A wakeup circuit may monitor an input signal in which a wakeup signal may be represented. The wakeup circuit may utilize a clock to continuously and/or otherwise sample and analyze the received input signal to detect when a wakeup signal is present. Upon detection that a wakeup signal is present, the electronic device may switch from the lower power state to the normal operating state.
Reference will now be made to representative embodiments illustrated in the accompanying figures. It should be understood that the following descriptions are not intended to limit the disclosure to one preferred embodiment. To the contrary, each is intended to cover alternatives, modifications, and equivalents as may be included within the spirit and scope of the described embodiments as defined by the appended claims.
The use of the same or similar reference numerals in different drawings indicates similar, related, or identical items where appropriate.
Some embodiments described herein relate to systems and methods related to wakeup circuits for electronic devices. A wakeup circuit of an electronic device operating in a low power state may utilize a clock to sample and analyze an input signal that may include a wakeup signal. However, reliable frequency clocks such as crystal oscillators may be expensive and/or utilize more power than other clocks. Less expensive clocks and/or clock that utilize less power (such as ring oscillators) may not have a reliable frequency (variations in frequency may occur due to manufacturing, temperature and/or other conditions during operation, and so on) and/or may have lower frequencies than are suitable for sampling and analyzing the input signal.
For example, in the storage context, Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) out of band (OOB) sequence detection may utilize a differential signal detector that indicates whether differential signal is present (a burst is being received) or is not present (a space is being received). SATA phy macrocells may provide this function and the resulting output signal may be referred to as “sigdet,” short for signal detect. An ideal signal detector circuit receiving a nominal SATA Comwake or Comreset (two of a number of different wakeup signals that may be utilized in SATA) may generate a sigdet output of six assertions where each assertion may be 106.666 nanoseconds long (representing the length of an OOB burst) and each negation may also be 106.666 nanoseconds long (representing a space). However, in practice signal detector circuits may have large duty cycle distortion such that burst timing and space timing may be 80-130 nanoseconds. Detection of such OOB sequences may be accomplished by asynchronous sampling followed by digital processing of the sampled signal. Fixed and known reliable clock frequencies of 30 MHz or faster may be used to process the sigdet waveform. However, in some low power SATA states, the only clock available for sampling and processing this waveform may be of a frequency between 7 and 29 MHz. Such a clock may be a low power ring oscillator. Using such a clock to sample the sigdet waveform may result in unreliable sampling, as there may be combinations of sigdet timing plus sample clock phase and frequency where spaces are sampled but bursts are missed or busts are sampled but spaces are missed. This may cause detection of Comwake or Comreset to be unreliable, which may be unacceptable for system operation.
A wakeup circuit for an electronic device may include a clock, a sampling circuit portion, and a qualification window portion. The sampling circuit portion of the wakeup circuit may synchronize a received input signal with the clock and generate an activity signal that includes an activity pulse for each state change in the synchronized input signal per cycle of the clock. In some implementations the sampling circuit portion may also reduce the frequency of the input signal prior to synchronization. The qualification window portion may open a qualification window upon detection of a first activity pulse in the activity signal and in the event that more than a threshold number of activity pulses in the activity signal are detected prior to closing the qualification window, declare a wakeup event. In various implementations, the qualification window may be closed if more than the threshold number of activity pulses are not detected within a period (such as a fixed period of time and/or clock cycles, a user and/or software specified period of time and/or clock cycles, a period of time and/or clock cycles based upon a current frequency of the clock, and so on).
In this way, the wakeup circuit may be able to sample and analyze the input signal using a clock that may have an unreliable and/or lower frequency than would otherwise be possible. The wakeup circuit may be able to utilize the clock if the frequency of the clock is within a minimum or maximum of a range of frequencies. Further, in this way the wakeup circuit may be able to ignore at least some noise in the input signal while still being able to detect a present wakeup signal.
Although particular embodiments are discussed herein, it should be appreciated that the various embodiments, as well as functionality, operation, components, and capabilities thereof may be combined with other elements as necessary. Any physical, functional, or operational discussion of any element or feature is not intended to be limited solely to a particular embodiment to the exclusion of others.
The computing device 102 may send commands 103 to the storage device 105. The commands may be any number of commands including, but not necessarily limited to, write commands, erase commands, and read commands. The storage device may include a processor and/or control circuitry 106 (such as a controller, an electrical circuit, an integrated circuit, instructions executed by a processor, and so on) and one or more storage components 107 (such as a circular recording disk made from a magnetic material onto and/or into which data can be recorded as patterns of magnetic polarity, integrated circuit solid-state memory assemblies onto and/or into which data can be recorded, and so on) that may persistently store data. The control circuitry may process the commands and may transmit one or more responses 104 to the computing device (such as in response to receiving a command, as part of executing a received command, and so on). For one example, if the computing device sends a read command, the storage device may send a response including the requested data.
The storage device 105 may be operable in a number of power states. Such power states may include states such as a normal operating state (or higher power state) where power is provided to the storage component 107 and a lower power state (lower as less power may be consumed than in the normal operating state) where power is not provided to the storage component. The storage device may include a wakeup circuit 108 that may be operable in the lower power state to determine when a wakeup signal is received in an input signal. Upon determining that the wakeup signal is received, the wakeup circuit may signal the storage device to transition from the lower power state to the normal power state and/or another higher power state.
The wakeup circuit 108 may include a clock 109. The clock may be an unreliable frequency clock and/or a relatively lower frequency clock (such as between 7 and 29 MHz) such as a ring oscillator. The wakeup circuit may synchronize a received input signal with the clock; generate an activity signal that includes an activity pulse for each state change in the synchronized input signal per cycle of the clock; open a qualification window upon detection of a first activity pulse in the activity signal; and in the event that more than a threshold number of activity pulses in the activity signal are detected prior to closing the qualification window, declare a wakeup event. Upon declaring the wakeup event, the wakeup circuit may signal the storage device 105 to transition from the lower power state to the normal power state and/or another higher power state.
In some implementations the wakeup circuit 108 may also reduce the frequency of the input signal prior to synchronization. This may be performed where a frequency of the input signal is such that utilizing the clock 109 to sample and analyze the input signal may result in missing state changes in the input signal.
In various implementations, the qualification window may be closed if more than the threshold number of activity pulses are not detected within a period. Such a period may be as a fixed period of time and/or clock cycles (such as 63 and/or another number of clock cycles), a user and/or software specified period of time and/or clock cycles, a period of time and/or clock cycles based upon a current frequency of the clock 109, and so on.
The divide-by-two portion 202 (shown as including flip flop 207 and inverter 206) may receive an input signal 201 (e.g., the sigdet signal discussed above) and reduce the frequency of the input signal 201 by performing a divide by two function. The divide-by-two portion may reduce the frequency of the input signal sufficiently that the reduced frequency input signal may be safely sampled by the clock 109 without bursts or spaces being missed.
The synchronizer portion 203 (shown as including flip flops 208 and 209 driven by the clock 109) may synchronize the reduced frequency input signal with the clock. In other words, the synchronizer portion may sample the reduced frequency input signal into the domain of the clock.
The differentiator portion 204 (shown as including exclusive or gate 211 and flip flop 210 driven by the clock) may generate an activity signal 205 that includes one activity pulse for each state change present in the synchronized input signal in different clock cycles. In other words, the differentiator portion may create an activity signal which is asserted for each clock cycle in which the output of the synchronizer portion changes state from the previous clock cycle. Assertion in consecutive clock cycles may be acceptable, but state changes that correspond to a wakeup signal present in the input signal 201 may change state at most once per clock cycle.
Overall, the sampling circuit 200 may function to change the waveform of the input signal 201 into an activity signal 205 pulse train that is usable for further processing. The activity signal may include one activity pulse for each burst in the input signal.
Although the sampling circuit 200 is illustrated and described as including particular components arranged in a particular order, it is understood that this is an example. In various implementations, various components may be arranged in various orders without departing from the scope of the present disclosure.
For example, the sampling circuit 200 is illustrated and described as including the divide-by-two portion 202. However, in various implementations a different frequency reduction component may be utilized (such as a component that performs a divide by any number N function on the input signal 201, a component that performs a divide by two function on the input signal utilizing other components than the flip flop 207 and the inverter 206, and so on). In some implementations, frequency reduction may be omitted without departing from the scope of the present disclosure.
By way of another example, the synchronizer portion 203 is illustrated and described as including flip flops 208 and 209 driven by the clock 109. However, in various implementations other components may be utilized to synchronize the reduced frequency input signal with the clock without departing from the scope of the present disclosure.
By way of still another example, the differentiator portion 204 is illustrated and described as including exclusive or gate 211 and flip flop 210 driven by the clock 109. However, in various implementations other components may be utilized to generate the activity signal from the synchronized input signal without departing from the scope of the present disclosure.
In the activity counter portion 302, an activity counter may be incremented for each activity pulse detected in the activity signal 205 while the qualification window is open. The activity counter may be cleared and/or otherwise set to a zero or base value upon opening of the qualification window.
In the threshold compare portion 303, the current value of the activity counter may be compared against a threshold (which may be fixed, user or system programmable, and so on). If the current value of the activity counter exceeds the threshold (meaning that a number of activity pulses detected during the qualification window are sufficient to indicate that a wakeup signal was present in the input signal 201), a wakeup event may be declared.
As pulses in the input signal 201 corresponding to a wakeup signal would occur within a particular period of time, use of the qualification window may reject at least some noise present in the input signal as a number of intermittent random spikes in the input signal exceeding the threshold would only trigger declaration of a wakeup event if they occurred during the qualification window. Such a number of intermittent random spikes in the input signal exceeding the threshold would not trigger declaration of a wakeup event if they occurred outside of the duration of the qualification window. The duration of the qualification window may correspond to the maximum duration of any wakeup signal that could be present in the input signal (such as between 50 and 78 cycles of the clock 109).
Thus the wakeup circuit 108 may be able to utilize clocks 109 that have a range of frequencies within a minimum and a maximum frequency range without requiring configuration for a specific frequency. The wakeup circuit may be configured without knowledge as to exactly what frequency the clock will have. In other words, the wakeup circuit may be able to utilize a clock of an unknown frequency. This may have cost saving benefits since requiring a specific frequency may increase component costs. Conversely, being able to work with different clock frequencies expands integration options and lowers the overall costs of implementation.
In various implementations, the clock 109 may have a period no longer than an envelope of a differential signal detector that generates the input signal 201. This may prevent bursts or spaces from being missed during analysis of the activity signal 205.
At block 501, an input signal may be received. The flow may then proceed to block 502 where the frequency of the input signal may be reduced. Next, the flow may proceed to block 503 where the reduced frequency input signal is synchronized with a clock. The flow may then proceed to block 504 where an activity signal is generated from the synchronized input signal. The generated activity signal may include an activity pulse for each state change present in different clock cycles of the synchronized input signal.
Next, the flow may proceed to block 505 where it may be determined whether or not a first activity pulse is detected in the generated activity signal. If so, the flow may proceed to block 506. Otherwise, processing of the received input signal may continue by the flow returning to block 501 where receipt of the input signal continues.
At block 506, after it is determined whether or not a first activity pulse is detected in the generated activity signal, a qualification window may be opened. The flow may then proceed to block 507 where an activity counter may be incremented for a detected activity pulse in the generated activity signal. The flow may then proceed to block 508 where it may be determined whether the value of the activity counter exceeds a threshold. If so, the flow may proceed to block 510. Otherwise, the flow may proceed to block 509.
At block 509, after it is determined that the value of the activity counter does not exceed the threshold, it may be determined whether or not to close the qualification window. The determination of whether or not to close the qualification window may be based on whether or not a period (such as a fixed period of time and/or clock cycles, a user and/or software specified period of time and/or clock cycles, a period of time and/or clock cycles based upon a current frequency of the clock, and so on) has expired since the qualification window was opened. If so, the flow may proceed to block 512. Otherwise, the flow may return to block 507 where the activity counter may be incremented for the next detected activity pulse in the generated activity signal.
At block 510, after it is determined that the value of the activity counter exceeds the threshold, a wakeup event may be declared. The flow may then proceed to block 511 where the electronic device is signaled to change power state. The power state may change from one or more low power states to a relatively higher power state.
At block 512, after it is determined to close the qualification window, the qualification window is closed. The flow may then return to block 505 where it may be determined whether or not a first activity pulse after closing of the previous qualification window is detected in the generated activity signal.
Although the example method 500 is illustrated and described as including particular operations performed in a particular order, it is understood that this is an example. In various implementations, various orders of the same, similar, and/or different operations may be performed without departing from the scope of the present disclosure. For example, the method is illustrated and described as performing the operations of blocks 501-512 in a linear, sequential fashion. However, it is understood that this is for the sake of clarity. In various implementations, one or more of these operations may be performed simultaneously and/or in other orders and/or sequences than shown. For example, processing of the input signal to generate the activity signal may be performed continuously when operating in a low power state and may be performed while the generated activity signal is being analyzed without departing from the scope of the present disclosure.
Further, although the operations of blocks 508-512 are illustrated and described as declaring a wakeup event if more than the threshold number of activity pulses are detected prior to the closing of the qualification window, it is understood that this is an example. In various implementations, whether or not a wakeup event is declared may be dependent on the clock cycle in which the threshold number of activity pulses are detected. For example, in some implementations a wakeup event may be declared if the final activity pulse for the threshold is detected prior to the clock cycle in which the qualification window will be closed. By way of another example, in various implementations a wakeup event may be declared if the final activity pulse for the threshold is detected in the clock cycle in which the qualification window will be closed. By way of still another example, in some implementations a wakeup event may be declared if the final activity pulse for the threshold is detected in the clock cycle immediately after the clock cycle in which the qualification window is closed. Various configurations are possible and contemplated.
For example, although the method 500 is illustrated and described as declaring a wakeup event if the value of the activity counter exceeds the threshold, it is understood that this is an example. In various implementations, the wakeup event may be declared if a particular pattern of activity pulses is detected in the generated activity signal as opposed to more than a threshold number without departing from the scope of the present disclosure.
Although the wakeup circuit 108 is illustrated in
For example,
As also illustrated, the electronic device may include one or more additional clocks 607. Such an additional clock may consume more power than the clock 604 and may be active in the higher power state but not active in the lower power state. In some implementations, the additional clock may be a crystal oscillator.
Although the electronic device 601 is illustrated and described as including particular components, it is understood that this is an example. Various components in various configurations may be utilized without departing from the scope of the present disclosure. For example, although the wakeup circuit 602 is shown and described as including distinct sampling circuits 605 and qualification circuits 606, it is understood that in various implementations the wakeup circuit may perform the functions of these circuits without having distinct dedicated circuitry.
Although the example method of
By way of another example, although the operation 704 is illustrated and described as closing the qualification window after a fixed period of time, in some implementations the period of time may not be fixed. For example, in various implementations the qualification window may be closed based on a period specified by a user or software execution, determined based on determining a current frequency of the clock, and/or other such factors.
In many embodiments, the method of
In the present disclosure, the methods disclosed may be implemented as sets of instructions or software readable by a device. Further, it is understood that the specific order or hierarchy of steps in the methods disclosed are examples of sample approaches. In other embodiments, the specific order or hierarchy of steps in the method can be rearranged while remaining within the disclosed subject matter. The accompanying method claims present elements of the various steps in a sample order, and are not necessarily meant to be limited to the specific order or hierarchy presented.
The described disclosure may be provided as a computer program product, or software, that may include a non-transitory machine-readable medium having stored thereon instructions, which may be used to program a computer system (or other electronic devices) to perform a process according to the present disclosure. A non-transitory machine-readable medium includes any mechanism for storing information in a form (e.g., software, processing application) readable by a machine (e.g., a computer). The non-transitory machine-readable medium may take the form of, but is not limited to, a magnetic storage medium (e.g., floppy diskette, video cassette, and so on); optical storage medium (e.g., CD-ROM); magneto-optical storage medium; read only memory (ROM); random access memory (RAM); erasable programmable memory (e.g., EPROM and EEPROM); flash memory; and so on.
The foregoing description, for purposes of explanation, used specific nomenclature to provide a thorough understanding of the described embodiments. However, it will be apparent to one skilled in the art that the specific details are not required in order to practice the described embodiments. Thus, the foregoing descriptions of the specific embodiments described herein are presented for purposes of illustration and description. They are not meant to be exhaustive or to limit the embodiments to the precise forms disclosed. It will be apparent to one of ordinary skill in the art that many modifications and variations are possible in view of the above teachings. In particular, any features described with respect to one embodiment may also be used in some embodiments, where compatible. Likewise, the features of the different embodiments may be exchanged, substituted, or omitted where compatible and appropriate.
Many embodiments of the foregoing disclosure may include or may be described in relation to various methods of operation, use, manufacture, and so on. Notably, the operations of methods presented herein are meant only to be exemplary and, accordingly, are not necessarily exhaustive. For example an alternate operation order, or fewer or additional steps may be required or desired for particular embodiments.
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