Nordic Semiconductor Asa

Arne Wanvik Venås

Vegard Endresen

Per Carsten Skoglund

Per-Carsten Skoglund

Steffen Wiken

Ragnar Haugen

Ari Oja

Asghar Havashki

Åsmund Holen

Karianne Krokan Kragseth

Knut Austbø

Markus Bakka HjertØ

A handshake circuit portion for performing a handshake procedure to facilitate data reception by an associated circuit portion is provided. The handshake circuit portion comprises a request signal input for detecting a request signal from a further handshake circuit portion associated with a further circuit portion, an acknowledge signal output for asserting an acknowledge signal for the further handshake circuit portion, and a blocking signal input for detecting a blocking signal from the associated circuit portion. The handshake circuit portion is arranged to detect a request signal via the request signal input, determine if a blocking signal is present on the blocking signal input, and if a blocking signal is not present on the blocking signal input, respond to the request signal by asserting an acknowledge signal via the acknowledge signal output.

Handshake circuits

An integrated-circuit device comprises a source register in a reset domain, a destination circuit outside the reset domain, and a reset checking circuit. The checking circuit comprises a buffer outside the reset domain for receiving data values output by the source register, a reset detector, and reset checking logic. The checking logic detects a new data value output by the source register, checks whether a reset of the reset domain has been detected, and contingently outputs a control signal for controlling whether the destination circuit receives the new data value from the buffer. The reset detector signals whether a reset has been detected by using a feedback path to hold a predetermined value in a resettable latch until the latch receives a reset signal, and to hold a different value in the latch after receiving a reset signal.

Circuitry for transferring data across reset domains

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Arne Wanvik Venås