Circuit arrangement and method for transmitting signals

摘要

On the basis;of single-ended signals based on logic levels, and;of differential, in particular common-mode-based, signals,;a circuit arrangement and a corresponding method are proposed, in which the power consumption required for the transfer of L[ow]P[ower] data is as low as possible.

主权项

1. A circuit arrangement for transmitting both
single-ended logic-level-based data signals and single-ended logic-level-based clock signals, and differential data signals and differential clock signals between at least one transmission arrangement assigned to at least one data source and at least one receiving arrangement assigned to at least one data sink, said transmitting being by way of mode-dependent use of one of the following two available transmission paths: one common signal stream serializing the single-ended, logic-level-based data signals and the single-ended, logic-level-based clock signals and the differential data signals and the differential clock signals; at least one signal stream comprising the differential data signals and the differential clock signals, wherein the circuit arrangement comprises at least one serializer for generating the common signal and one clock generator.