Rohm Co., Ltd.

Toru Mukai

Yuji Yano

Shinya Masuda

Satoshi Tanaka

Hiroki Yamakami

Tomohiro Nishimura

A transmission circuit includes a first terminal configured so that a first voltage is applied thereto, a second terminal, a third terminal, and a fourth terminal configured so that a second voltage lower than the first voltage is applied thereto. The transmission circuit further includes a first variable resistor portion provided between the first terminal and the second terminal, a first current restriction portion configured to restrict a current flowing from the first terminal to the second terminal, a second variable resistor portion provided between the third terminal and the fourth terminal, a second current restriction portion configured to restrict a current flowing from the third terminal to the fourth terminal, and a control portion configured to control, based on transmission data, the respective resistance values of the first variable resistor portion and the second variable resistor portion.

Transmission circuit, electronic control unit, and vehicle

A delay signal generation circuit includes first to nth (n representing a natural number equal to or larger than 2) delay circuits and first to nth output terminals. The delay signal generation circuit is configured such that, in a first mode, an input signal passes through the first to kth (k representing a natural number equal to or larger than 1 but equal to or smaller than n) delay circuits in order and reaches the kth output terminal, and in a second mode, the input signal passes through the kth to nth delay circuits in reverse order and reaches the kth output terminal.

Delay signal generation circuit, transmission circuit, electronic control unit, and vehicle

A communication system is configured to use a pulse width modulation signal as transmission code among a plurality of nodes connected to a communication line. A master node includes a transmission transistor connected to the communication line, a detector configured to detect a variation in current during the on-period of the transmission transistor, and a communication circuit configured to determine the off-timing of the transmission transistor based on the timing of occurrence of the variation in current (i.e., the on-timing of a second transmission transistor provided in a slave node). For example, the communication circuit can be configured to determine the off-timing of the transmission transistor such that the simultaneously-on period TB of the transmission transistor and the second transmission transistor fulfills TB=(2n−1)/2f, where f is the frequency of EMI noise.

Communication device and communication system

An analog-to-digital (AD) conversion circuit includes an analog filter configured to remove a high frequency component of an analog signal to generate a first signal, an AD converter (ADC) configured to AD-convert the first signal to generate a second signal, and a digital filter configured to remove a high frequency component of the second signal to generate a digital signal.

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Toru Mukai