US 11,888,586 B2 · Low latency network device and method for treating received serial data

Abstract

A low-latency network device and method for treating serial data comprising an oscillator generating a device-wide clock; a receiving physical medium attachment (PMA) having an internal data width, a symbol timing synchronization module configured to receive the parallelized sample stream; and detect therefrom synchronized bit values corresponding to bit values of the received serial data; and a physical convergence sublayer (PCS). The PMA is configured to receive the serial data, deserialize the serial data based on the device-wide clock and internal data width, whereby the received serial data is oversampled, the oversampling of the received serial data being asynchronous relative to a timing of the received serial data, and output a parallelized sample stream. The PCS is configured to receive the synchronized bit values; and delineate packets therefrom to provide packet-delineated parallelized data. The PMA, the symbol timing synchronization module and the PCS are all driven by the device-wide clock.

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Dependent claims

A low-latency network device for treating serial data received at a receiving data rate, the device comprising:

an oscillator generating a device-wide clock;
a receiving physical medium attachment (PMA) having an internal data width, the PMA being configured to:
receive the serial data,
deserialize the serial data based on the device-wide clock and internal data width, whereby the received serial data is oversampled, the oversampling of the received serial data being asynchronous relative to a timing of the received serial data, and
output a parallelized sample stream;
a symbol timing synchronization module configured to:
receive the parallelized sample stream;
and
detect, from the parallelized sample stream, synchronized bit values corresponding to bit values of the received serial data;
and
a physical convergence sublayer (PCS) configured to:
receive the synchronized bit values;
and
delineate packets from the synchronized bit values, to provide packet-delineated parallelized data,
the receiving PMA, the symbol timing synchronization module and the PCS being all driven by the device-wide clock.

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A method for processing serial data received at a receiving data rate, the method comprising:

deserializing the received serial data, through a receiving physical medium attachment (PMA), to output a parallelized sample stream, the deserializing being driven by a device-wide clock generated by an oscillator, and according to a word-width of the parallelized sample stream, whereby the parallelized sample stream is an oversampling of the received serial data, the oversampling of the received serial data being asynchronous relative to a timing of the received serial data;
detecting, through a symbol timing synchronization module, from the parallelized sample stream, synchronized bit values corresponding to bit values of the received serial data;
and
delineating packet on the synchronized bit values, through a physical convergence sublayer (PCS), to provide packet-delineated parallelized data,
wherein the receiving PMA, the symbol timing synchronization module and the PCS are all driven by the device-wide clock.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Low latency network device and method for treating received serial data

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