Asymmetric cross-connect system
AssigneeMicrosemi Communications, Inc.
InventorsMichael Schulz, Robert BRUCK
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Abstract
An asymmetric cross-connect system, constituted of: a cross-connect circuitry; and a control circuitry, wherein the cross-connect circuitry comprises a plurality of adaptive equalizers and a plurality of fixed equalizers, wherein the plurality of adaptive equalizers are in electrical communication with a multi-purpose port of a user device and each of the plurality of fixed equalizers are in electrical communication with a respective output of a processor of the user device, and wherein the cross-connect circuitry is arranged, responsive to the control circuitry, to provide a communication path between one of the outputs the processor and the multi-purpose port.
Claims8
An asymmetric cross-connect system, comprising:
- a cross-connect circuitry;
- and a control circuitry,
- wherein said cross-connect circuitry comprises a plurality of adaptive equalizers and a plurality of fixed equalizers,
- wherein said plurality of adaptive equalizers are each arranged for connection to a respective multi-purpose port of a user device and each of said plurality of fixed equalizers are arranged for connection to a respective output of a processor of the user device, and
- wherein said cross-connect circuitry is arranged, responsive to said control circuitry, to provide a communication path between a selected one of the outputs the processor and a selected one of the multi-purpose ports.
A multi-purpose port cross-connecting method, the method comprising:
- determining the type of an external device coupled to a multi-purpose port of a user device;
- controlling a cross-connect circuitry to create a communication path between the multi-purpose port and a particular output of a processor which is associated with the external device, the cross-connect circuitry comprising a plurality of adaptive equalizers and a plurality of fixed equalizers;
- equalizing signals transmitted from the processor to the cross-connect circuitry with a respective one of the plurality of fixed equalizers;
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- equalizing signals transmitted from the external device to the cross-connect circuitry with a respective one of the plurality of adaptive equalizers.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.